Month: March 2018

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Petitioners for an initiative that would restrict the sale of assault weapons in Oregon have submitted some of the signatures necessary to make the November ballot. If the batch submitted Monday in Salem includes at least 1,000 valid signatures, the attorney general will begin the ballot title drafting process. Petitioners must

Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., requested further information from the National Rifle Association on Tuesday after the organization admitted to accepting foreign contributions. In a letter sent to Wyden on March 19, the senator said the NRA failed to address questions related to financial expenditures that do not require Federal Election Committee

Good Tuesday Morning, Everyone… A modest ridge of high pressure centered well off shore has made a slight advance on the Pacific NW. The will help to give us some partial clearing today and modestly warmer temps. Highs will be in the low to mid 50’s and southerly breezes will pick up to 5-15 mph.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A Pennsylvania-based ceiling tiles manufacturer has announced it will lay off 136 workers when it closes its St. Helens plant in May. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that Armstrong World Industries Inc. announced that it will shut down the plant on May 31, causing more than 30 fabrication technicians, 20 board mill technicians,

Redmond is working on plans for about $12 million worth of major capital improvement projects through 2019. The city updates its capital improvement fund priorities every year. This fund helps the city coordinate all of its projects. For example, athecity would avoid paving a street if it were going to be torn up a few

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – Kathryn Westbeld scored 20 points, Jessica Shepard added 18 and Notre Dame reached the Final Four for the eighth time in school history by defeating Oregon 84-74 on Monday night. Westbeld came up with the biggest game of her Notre Dame career despite being slowed by an ankle injury from the

A thief stole a small automated teller machine from inside K Market on Bend’s Westside around 3:30 Monday morning. An employee saw the broken glass when she arrived for work and called police. Security footage from the store shows a dark-colored SUV backing into a parking spot in front of the store. Then a person

The Bend Park and Recreation District and the City of Bend have partnered to maintain the Tree City USA certification and the Bend City Council recently designated April 1-7 as “Arbor Week for the City of Bend.” Both agencies are committed to public activities designed to educate citizens and youth about the importance of trees

Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said Monday he will hold town halls in Klamath, Lake, Deschutes and Jefferson counties on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 3 and 4. Merkley said in a release that he “will update constituents on his work in Washington, D.C., and answer their questions and invite their suggestions about how to tackle the

Oregon Attorney General Rosenblum co-led a bipartisan coalition of 37 state and territory attorneys general Monday in sending a letter demanding answers from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the company’s business practices and privacy protections. Recent news reports indicate the data of at least 50 million Facebook profiles may have been misused by third-party software

Happy Monday Central Oregon! Today was cool and breezy at times on the high desert, with cloudy skies with wind out of the west at 5-15 MPH throughout the day. The cloudy skies will hang around over night, as lows will drop into the upper 20’s and low 30’s across the region. Tomorrow we see

Here are the results of Friday’s KTVZ.COM poll, asking if you or anyone you know were taking part in Saturday’s March for our Lives: Are you or anyone you know taking part in Saturday’s March for our Lives?Yes – 21% (252 votes)No – 79% (966 votes)Total Votes: 1,218

(Update: Drivers’ names released; speed, alcohol believed to be factors) Oregon State Police on Monday identified a 39-year-old Bend man who was killed and another driver seriously injured in a head-on crash on Highway 97 north of Bend early Sunday. OSP responded around 3:30 a.m. Sunday to the crash near milepost 132, about two miles

(Update: Correcting that all three civil suits are still active) Two years after a worker at Bend’s Massage Envy was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting three clients during massage sessions, Christopher Rosario has agreed to a negotiated settlement of the case and pleaded no contest to four of the nine charges against him. Rosario,

The 2018 federal spending bill adopted by Congress and signed into law late last week by President Trump includes critical investments in higher education financial aid, research and infrastructure at Oregon State University and nationally, the school said Monday. “As Oregon’s statewide university, OSU is driving key research to promote knowledge and economic development opportunities

Starting Monday, April 2, the passport execution/processing fee will increase from $25 to $35. The $10 fee increase is mandated by the Department of State, the Deschutes County Clerk’s Office reported. The new fee only applies to people who are: ● applying for a passport for the first time ● renewing a passport that was

KEIZER, Ore. (AP) – Oregon Republican gubernatorial candidates debated several topics, but they all agreed the state’s Democratic Gov. Kate Brown must go. The Statesman Journal reports seven candidates during a debate Saturday in Keizer blamed Brown and Democrats in the state Legislature for what they see as Oregon’s biggest problems, including poor high school

On March 20, Redmond Fire & Rescue, Deschutes County 911 and the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office had the privilege to celebrate with the family of a cardiac arrest survivor. One year ago, the patient suffered from a sudden cardiac arrest while at home. The family quickly identified the cardiac arrest, called 911 and began early

The following message by Mitch Sparks, director of the Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs, is being distributed in advance of National Vietnam War Veterans Day on Thursday. Forty-five years ago this week, combat and combat support units withdrew from South Vietnam. This marked the beginning of the end of nearly two decades of direct U.S.

Good Monday Morning, Everyone… We have one more chilly day before a nice ridge of high pressure moves in and deliver sunshine a very warm temps this week. Under mostly cloudy skies, today’s highs will be in the mid to upper 40’s and SW winds will pick up to 5-15 mph. Those clouds will deliver