Month: March 2018

Cascade Natural Gas Corp. is starting the Bend Westside Replacement Project Phase 7 this week, and that means a major detour for the next several weeks. Northwest 14 th Street between Galveston and Newport avenues will be reduced to one lane, as both the city of Bend and Cascade Natural Gas upgrade underground utilities. Southbound

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – C.J. McCollum scored 34 points to help the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 108-105 on Sunday night. Damian Lillard scored 24 points, and Jusuf Nurkic added 17 points and 12 rebounds for the Trail Blazers, who swept all four games with the Thunder this season. Portland doubled its

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon couple is pushing to legalize and regulate the therapeutic use of psilocybin – a psychoactive compound found in so-called “magic” mushrooms – as an effective treatment for people suffering from cancer-related anxiety, depression and addiction. The Register-Guard reports Tom and Sheri Eckert, who share a counseling practice in Beaverton,

MONMOUTH, Ore. (AP) – Officials say about 1.3 million gallons of partially treated sewage went into the Willamette River after an equipment failure at the city of Monmouth’s waste water treatment facility. The Statesman Journal reports that the city of about 10,000 people located near Salem waited five days to notify the public. The sewage

SANDY, Ore. (AP) – Clackamas County deputies have arrested a woman after a man was found dead in a home near Sandy. Sheriff’s deputy Hayden Sanders says investigators learned that the woman texted a family member to say she had shot and killed a man inside a home. KOIN-TV reports that deputies surrounded the wooded

Hello everyone! A cloudy Sunday throughout the region. There were some scattered mixed showers that pushed across the region this afternoon. There’s a slight chance this will happen again later in the evening. Skies will break up just a little bit and become partly cloudy overnight. Tomorrow morning the clouds will return as another round

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – Growth in Washington’s gray wolf population slowed dramatically last year, raising concerns from an environmental group that says the state should stop killing wolves that prey on livestock. At the end of 2017, Washington was home to at least 122 wolves, 22 packs and 14 successful breeding pairs. That’s according to

Thousands of people of all ages gathered in downtown Bend on Saturday for the March for Our lives rally, one in a series of similar events held around the nation in a call for safer schools and stricter gun laws. The “lives of children shouldn’t even be categorized in a political party,” a Bend Senior

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) – Asia Durr scored 18 points, Myisha Hines-Allen added 16 and top-seeded Louisville earned its first Final Four berth since 2013 with a 76-43 rout of No. 6 seed Oregon State on Sunday in the women’s NCAA Tournament Lexington Region final. Playing its first regional final in four years, the Cardinals (36-2)

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – Ruthy Hebard had 23 points and 14 rebounds, Sabrina Ionescu just missed another triple-double with 16 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds, and second-seeded Oregon beat No. 11 seed Central Michigan 83-69 on Saturday in the Spokane Region semifinal of the women’s NCAA Tournament. Lexi Bando added 14 points for Oregon

Hello Central Oregon! Sunday morning we’ll wake up to partly cloudy skies. Daytime highs will be similar in the mid 40’s. There will be a slight chance of mixed showers throughout the afternoon. The storm will break up over Central Oregon by dinner time. Monday and Tuesday there’s also a slight chance of storms, but

FRISCO, Texas (AP) – Roland Lamah scored his third goal in two games and Jimmy Maurer had a career-high five saves in FC Dallas’ 1-1 tie with the Portland Timbers on Saturday. Lamah, who had two goals and an assists in FC Dallas’ 3-0 win over Seattle on Sunday, opened the scoring in the 36th

Hello Central Oregon! After a stormy Friday it’s nice to have a break today and see the sunshine. Throughout the day more clouds have pushed into the region. Temperatures were chilly in the mid 40’s for daytime highs. Throughout the evening there will be a chance of mixed showers that could turn to snow showers

SEATTLE (AP) – High school students led thousands of protesters in Seattle and other Northwest cities demanding tighter gun regulations following recent high-profile school shootings. Students on Saturday held signs that read “Not One More” and chanted “Right now, right here, we refuse to live in fear.” Teachers protested President Donald Trump’s proposal to arm

SUTHERLIN, Ore. (AP) – A 37-year-old man police say tried to destroy the golden arches at a McDonald’s restaurant in Sutherlin after workers refused to make him 30 double-cheeseburgers is facing charges. The News-Review reports that police arrested Jedediah Ezekiel Fulton on March 16 on suspicion of second-degree disorderly conduct, second-degree criminal trespass, second-degree criminal

Happy Saturday Central Oregon! Yesterday brought snow and windy conditions and we are going to see that wind hang around as we make our way through Saturday. This morning the snow has cleared up for a while and we will see partly cloudy skies overhead for most of the morning before the snow returns again

The Redmond Airport expects to double in size within the next 20 years. Officials have plans to accommodate that growth, but at least for now, you’ll have to change some of your habits, too. If your flight is leaving between 5 and 7 a.m., officials say you should arrive at the airport at least two

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) – Marie Gulich had 26 points, Kat Tudor added 16 and sixth-seeded Oregon State shot 58 percent in the second half to upset No. 2 seed Baylor 72-67 on Friday night in the women’s NCAA Tournament Lexington Region semifinal. Two years after upsetting Baylor in the Elite Eight, Oregon State (26-7) followed

Rep. Greg Walden (R-Hood River) released the following statement Friday in regards to legislation to increase school safety and improve the nation’s mental health care system: “No child should feel unsafe in their school. We have to take steps to get at the root causes of acts of violence in our schools. That is why

(Update: Comments from burglary victim, Bend PD background on stop) A police traffic stop on a 37-year-old Bend man turned up a gun stolen in Deschutes River Woods, leading to a raid that found other stolen items from that burglary and another one in the Woodside Ranch area south of Bend, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies