Month: February 2018

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) – Klamath County officials have declared a drought emergency. The Herald and News reports that county commissioners worry that the upcoming irrigation season may be the driest in several years and could cause millions of dollars in economic losses. The declaration starts the process necessary to receive state and federal help.

For the third time in five days, a perceived threat of possible violence at a Bend school will bring an increased police presence on Tuesday, officials confirmed Monday night. NewsChannel 21 heard from Bend Senior High School parents who received a letter from school administrators, which said two students were overheard talking about school attacks

The NWS also issued a winter weather advisory for most of the High Desert from 4 p.m. Tuesday to noon Wednesday, predicting 2-4 inches of snow for much of the region and 4-7 inches at higher elevations (La Pine, Sunriver, Camp Sherman). NewsChannel 21 Chief Meteorologist Bob Shaw said the Arctic blast will keep highs

This week’s Oregon FBI’ Tech Tuesday segment focuses on building a digital defense with strong passwords. If you are like most of the rest of us, remembering the 50,000 passwords you are required to use each day can be overwhelming. So overwhelming, in fact, that many people just use the same password — or a

In the midst of what has been (until most recently) an unseasonably warm winter in the Pacific Northwest, a comparison of four publicly available climate projections has shown broad agreement that the region will become considerably warmer in the next century if greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rise to the highest levels projected in

Pacific Power said Tuesday it has selected four new Wyoming wind projects to fulfill plans to significantly expand the amount of wind energy serving customers by 2020. The four projects will expand the company’s owned and contracted wind power by more than 60 percent and add enough new wind energy to power approximately 450,000 average

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s Ruthy Hebard set the NCAA record for consecutive field goals made for men and women Monday night. She came into the No. 8 Ducks game against UCLA with 30 straight makes, which was the women’s record. She made her first three shots to break the men’s record of 30 set

Good Tuesday Morning, Everyone…A cold Arctic blast will continue to invade the Pacific NW today. That cold air will hold our daytime highs down to freezing and a bit below. Moisture carried with that flow will bring snow to the Cascades and a chance of late day snow to Central Oregon. Surface winds will be

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Sabrina Ionescu scored seven of her 23 points in overtime and No. 8 Oregon outlasted No. 10 UCLA 101-94 on Monday night. Ionescu added 12 assists for the Ducks (25-4, 14-2 Pac-12). Oregon’s 14th conference win matched its best from 1999-2000 when it won the Pac-10 title. Oregon built a huge

Oregon Adaptive Sports began about 20 years ago, started by local skiers in the Central Oregon community. Today, 20 years after competing at the 1998 Paralympic Games, one of the board members continues to prove the sky’s the limit. Nancy Stevens was a Paralympian in Nagano, Japan, competing as a cross-country skier. When she looks

It’s not cheap to buy a home in Bend, and those high home prices are continuing to rise. In January, the median price for a single-family home in Bend was $410,000. That’s up $15,000 from December. Along with increasing prices, there’s only a two-month inventory of homes available. Typical housing markets have a six-month inventory.

Four brands of dog food are being recalled after a drug that’s used to euthanize animals was found in it. Veterinarians said Monday the contaminated meat most likely got into the food from a cow or horse that was euthanized, and its meat was used in the product. The drug is found in canned dog

(Update: Power restored, partial outage over) Central Oregon Community College dealt with cold classrooms due to a partial power outage at its Bend campus most of the day Monday that school officials said was caused by a large fuse going out. The school issued a notice around 8:30 a.m., saying “power is limited in several

Happy President’s Day, everyone! After a cold, fairly calm day for Central Oregon we will see a bitter cold evening once again. Lows will be falling into the single digits and even below zero for some tonight. Skies will become mostly clear by tomorrow morning. Expect icy conditions for the next few days at least.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland’s apartment-building binge appears to be ending. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that applications for new housing developments have slowed in the past year. Contributing to that reversal is construction costs and land prices. But Portland officials are worried the city’s zoning policy, which requires developers to set aside rent-restricted units in large

The Oregon Senate approved a bill Monday that will clarify a vague law restricting where and how equine therapy centers offer services, a move applauded by a Bend-based organization. Senate Bill 1533 was introduced by the Senate Interim Committee on Workforce on behalf of Sen. Tim Knopp (R-Bend) and Rep. Duane Stark (R-Grants Pass). Equine

The Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Association said it filed a motion for summary judgment last Thursday in a lawsuit filed last fall against the city of Bend, accusing it of diverting the city’s room tax revenues away from tourism promotion and reducing the allocation for tourism promotion below what is required by law. The question

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Most recent data show 38 Oregon residents 19 and under died by suicide in 2015. The Statesman Journal reports the Oregon Health Authority’s 2016 Youth Intervention and Prevention Plan Annual Report says those 38 suicides accounted for 45 percent of the suicides reported among people 24 and younger. The report says

Research at Oregon State University released Monday shows that human cells have tremendous power to mechanically change their surroundings, opening the door to new insights on a variety of physiological processes — including how cancer spreads. These irreversible mechanical remodels are different from the chemical changes to the extracellular matrix that cells also induce, and

BOISE, Idaho (AP) – Federal officials are offering a $100,000 prize to find a way to kill invasive quagga and zebra mussels. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says the only area not yet invaded by the mussels in the contiguous United States is the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest. The basin contains struggling