Month: April 2018

Major upgrades years in the making are almost here for the Three Rivers Humane Society in Madras. When Stephen Drynan and his wife Jerilee took the shelter over in 2013, they were surprised to see animals kept outside in both freezing and scorching temperatures. They worked to install heated water bowls and cover the kennels

Here’s the city of Bend’s weekly road construction report for the week of April 30-May 6: 2018 City of Bend Street Preservation Projects (More information: www.bendoregon.gov/streetpreservation ) : · Brooks Street between Oregon Avenue and Newport Avenue for pavement milling, road closure with detour, 5/6/18, night work from 7 p.m. – 6 a.m. · Oregon

The Rimrock Trailhead and trail system on the Deschutes National Forest will reopen to the public on Saturday. The popular trailhead and trail system about one mile west of Bend on the Cascade Lakes Highway was temporarily closed for a prescribed burn that occurred last Sunday. It has remained closed while firefighters monitored the burn

Personal use firewood collection on the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests and the Crooked River National Grassland begins next Tuesday, May 1, and will remain open through November 30. Firewood permits will go on sale at Forest Service offices across Central Oregon and at select businesses beginning Tuesday morning. The Prineville BLM will be offering

Good evening Central Oregon and happy Friday! Gloomy and cloudy today on the high desert and we even saw some rain at some points today. Cooler temperatures today across much of the state, and here in Central Oregon we saw temperatures drop around 20-25 degrees from where we were just 24 hours ago. Highs today

Here are the results of Thursday’s KTVZ.COM poll, asking who you think should pay to clean up homeless camps: Who should pay to clean up homeless camps? Local government/tax dollars – 31% (240 votes)Land owners – 14% (108 votes)Volunteers – 13% (96 votes)Fine the homeless – 42% (320 votes)Total Votes: 764

Oregon drivers have had several months to adjust to new traffic laws that took effect on Jan 1. But it seems that not everyone is keeping up with the changes. Most people know they should move over a lane or slow down if they see a law enforcement officer making a traffic stop or helping

Governor Kate Brown on Friday signed HB 4023, which establishes the Connecting Oregon Schools Fund. As part of the Future Ready Oregon initiative, the fund supports broadband access for K-12 public schools in the state, bringing high-speed internet to rural, underserved communities that lack fiber-optic connections. “The internet democratizes knowledge, and access to it needs

A two-month Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office investigation of criminal allegations involving Oregon State Police Captain William Fugate is complete and has been submitted to the district attorney’s office for review, officials said Friday. Sheriff Shane Nelson on Friday delivered to DA John Hummel the results of the investigation Nelson and his team conducted into allegations

A northwest Bend traffic stop led to the arrest of a wanted Bend man Thursday night after he ran from his car and assaulted two officers, police said. An officer pulled over a vehicle around 9:20 p.m. around Northwest Revere Avenue and Wall Street after seeing the driver of a 2009 Ford Flex make several

Redmond School District Athletic Director Kevin Bryant recently announced the hiring of longtime volleyball coach Aaron Mallory as Redmond High School’s new head volleyball coach. “The Panther volleyball program is in great hands with the addition of Aaron,” Bryant said. “He brings a wealth of experience to the position having played the game for so

Good Friday Morning, Everyone…The continued advance of a weak system that is gaining some strength will bring us more clouds along will a 40% chance of afternoon and evening showers. Highs will be in the mid 60’s and light westerly winds this morning will pick up to 5-10 mph this afternoon. We will cling to

There may be a quota system coming to Central Oregon’s wilderness areas, but first the public gets to weigh in. There were more than 100 people at a meeting about it Thursday night — standing room only. U.S. Forest Service officials outlined five plans for preserving Central Oregon’s wilderness areas in the Deschutes and Willamette

Over 25 California sea lions and an unknown number of Steller sea lions continue to prey on salmon, steelhead, sturgeon and lamprey in the Willamette River this month, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said earlier this week. Concerns for the wild Willamette winter steelhead remain front and center for ODFW as biologists estimate

HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say two men were injured when a single-engine plane they were in crashed in a field west of Hillsboro Thursday afternoon. Authorities say the crash was reported around 4:20 p.m. and that firefighters had to cut the men out of the plane. Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue Chief Cassandra Ulven

(Update: Adding video, comments from battalion chief on scene) Crews quickly extinguished a fire in a northwest Bend apartment Thursday morning, but not before it caused some $60,000 in damage and content losses, officials said. Bend Fire and Rescue responded around 10:12 a.m. to the reported fire in a four-plex apartment building at 1550 Northwest

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The wife of an Oregon lawmaker has filed a lawsuit against the state’s largest union, joining a national push by an anti-union group to let workers avoid paying dues to unions where they work. Debora Nearman, wife of Rep. Mike Nearman, a Republican from Independence, filed suit late Wednesday against the

Happy Thursday evening, everyone! Some thunderstorms have developed to our south passing over Willamette Pass this afternoon and evening. Areas in La Pine and Sunriver have a slight chance for a few thunderstorms tonight, but we’re expected to be dry. Winds will be breezy through sunset gusting around 25 miles per hour out of the

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., will hold town halls in Polk, Yamhill, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Harney and Crook counties on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 4, 5 and 6. Thursday’s announcement said Merkley “will update constituents on his work in Washington, D.C., and answer their questions and invite their suggestions about how to tackle the challenges

A Bend man has gone from cleaning up his act to cleaning up Central Oregon. Chris LaCoss is one of the people behind the nonprofit A Project for Humanity. LaCoss said that in two years, he and a small team have removed about 10 1/2 tons of garbage from the Central Oregon landscape. The group