Month: April 2018

(Update: Adding BPA statement) PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed an order to spill more water over Columbia and Snake river dams to help protect salmon and steelhead. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon ruled last spring that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must spill more water

Firefighters on the Deschutes National Forest plan to ignite a prescribed burn off of China Hat Road late Tuesday morning, if conditions remain favorable, officials said. Ignitions are scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. on South Bend 141, a 150-acre unit south of Bend on the north and east side of China Hat Road from

St. Charles Health System announced Monday it is going live next Saturday with a new electronic health record system and bringing a new online portal to its patients, a project two years and nearly $80 million in the making. The transition will bring the health system’s four hospitals and family care, immediate care and specialty

Here are the results of Friday’s KTVZ.COM poll, asking if you agree with the $20,000 fine of ex-Gov. Kitzhaber for ethics violations: Do you agree with the $20,000 fine of ex-Gov. Kitzhaber for ethics violations?Yes – 54% (505 votes)No – 46% (431 votes)Total Votes: 936

Rising anthropogenic, or human-caused, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have up to twice the impact on coastal estuaries as it does in the oceans because the human-caused CO 2 lowers the ecosystem’s ability to absorb natural fluctuations of the greenhouse gas, a new study suggests. Researchers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Oregon

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – Cherry and apple growers in Washington state are worried their exports to China will be hurt by a trade war that escalated on Monday when that country raised import duties on a $3 billion list of products. China buys Washington-grown cherries, apples and pears, which are all included in the trade

The Redmond School District Board of Directors will award four scholarships of $1,250 each, with two recipients from Redmond High School and two recipients from Ridgeview High School. The board of directors applied for and were awarded the scholarship funds as part of the Oregon School Board Association’s The Promise Scholarship Program. Applicants must intend

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – The University of Oregon is using a new ploy to garner the attention of prospective college students. The Register-Guard reports the Eugene-based university, as part of its latest recruitment marketing initiative, UO 360, is sending out cardboard virtual reality goggles to all domestic undergraduate students they’ve accepted. University of Oregon enrollment

The Oregon State Marine Board is again seeking public comment after revising a set of proposed rules for the Fly Creek Inlet on Lake Billy Chinook. The board initiated rulemaking in January to consider a slow-no wake zone in the Fly Creek Inlet. At a quarterly meeting last Wednesday in Salem, the board tabled rulemaking,

Central Oregon Partnerships for Youth (COPY), a program of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, is offering a class to prepare volunteers to become mentors for children with an incarcerated parent. After initial training and comprehensive background checks, volunteers are matched with a child in Bend, Redmond, Sisters or La Pine that share similar interests and

(Update: DCSO corrects woman’s first name) A 28-year-old Bend woman was arrested late Sunday afternoon, accused of hitting her father with a car near his home south of Bend and pepper-spraying him a short time later, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. Deschutes County 911 dispatchers received a call around 4:20 p.m. from Emmy Gilbert, who

The Central Oregon chapter of OSU Master Gardeners ™ will allocate plots in the community gardens they manage in Bend by a lottery system in 2018. Returning gardeners from last season have the first option to rent the same plot again this year. Those who want to switch to a different plot, or who did

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has just returned from a week-long congressional trip examining the humanitarian and food crisis in east and central Africa. From March 24 through April 1, he visited South Sudan and Somalia, two of the Four Famines sites, as well as Kenya and the

A variety of class sessions, panel discussions and static displays will inform and educate local, county and tribal emergency managers during the fifth annual Oregon Prepared Workshop this week in Sunriver. This year, organizers have themed the workshop “Bridging the Gap from Response to Recovery.” The annual workshop provides an opportunity for emergency management professionals

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) – Firefighters extinguished a small fire at an Eastern Oregon drone range. Range manager Darryl Abling told the East Oregonian newspaper that the mishap occurred Saturday at the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport. He declined to say what type of unmanned aircraft system was involved or what went wrong during the test. There

City, county, state, tribal, and university law enforcement agencies around Oregon are looking to fill more than 500 vacancies over the next year that are expected due to retirements. In fact, more than 1,000 currently employed police, corrections and parole and probation officers and 9-1-1 operators around Oregon will be eligible to retire over the

A La Pine homeowner awakened by a loud noise Sunday night found a burglar in the kitchen, who ran from the scene but was caught by Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies hiding at a neighbor’s driveway, authorities said. Deputies were dispatched shortly after 9 p.m. to a reported burglary in progress in the 16000 block of

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Damian Lillard had 27 points and nine assists, and the Portland Trail Blazers held off a late run by the Memphis Grizzlies for a 113-98 victory on Sunday night. The Trail Blazers clinched their fifth straight playoff spot earlier in the evening, when Utah won at Minnesota. “It feels great to

Good Monday Morning, Everyone… Cold, Arctic air moving southward along the Canadian coastline and rotating into the Pacific NW will keep us pretty chilly today and downright cold tonight. We will see plenty of sunshine and a variable cloud cover, but highs will only reach the mid to upper 40’s. NW winds will ramp up

Cascade Natural Gas has two areas under repair on Bend’s Westside. Northwest 14 th Street, between Galveston and Newport Avenues, will detour southbound traffic for the next several weeks, as that lane is closed. Starting Tuesday, paving will begin at the intersection of NW Kansas Avenue & NW Staats Street and work South towards NW