Month: July 2018

A growing army of firefighters have brought the now 70,421-acre Substation Fire southeast of The Dalles — the nation’s top wildfire…

Happy Friday evening, everyone! Tonight winds won’t be nearly as gusty as they were last night. Gusts will top 20 miles per hour through…

CENTRAL POINT, Ore. (AP) – Authorities in southern Oregon say a homeless man was killed in a wildfire near a transient camp earlier this week.…

What do you get when you mix a famous surfer, coffee creamer and Central Oregon? A rapidly expanding natural food company in Sisters. Laird Superfood…

Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and Gov. Kate Brown on Friday asked federal officials to provide emergency aid for farmers affected by wildland…

With hot and dry conditions expected to continue, an increasing number of wildfires around the Northwest and fire suppression resources already…

Here are the results of Tuesday’s KTVZ.COM Poll, asking if you think all campfires should be banned until conditions change: Should all…

Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., joined their Senate colleagues Friday in opposing the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Jurors have convicted a man in the 2016 death of a student from Portland who was sexually assaulted and strangled on the…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The U.S. Department of Justice is taking over an embattled Oregon mega-dairy, citing the owner’s continued drug use,…

(Update: Correcting county) The Oregon Health Authority issued a recreational use health advisory Friday for Odell Lake due to the presence of a…

The Oregon State Marine Board, in partnership with 32 county sheriff’s offices and the Oregon State Police will be focusing their enforcement…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A lawsuit filed by young activists who say the government is failing to protect them from climate change is still alive.…

The 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Oregon Army National Guard is scheduled to conduct a large-scale training exercise, July 21-August 12,…

(Update: Last 1,200 have power restored; squirrel confirmed as outage cause) An outage caused by a squirrel at a Pacific Power substation cut power…

The increasing national need for firefighting resources and hot, dry conditions on the Willamette National Forest are causing fire managers to ban…

Crews are in full mop-up mode on the lightning-sparked Cemetery Fire that broke out earlier this week in the Maury Mountains of the Ochoco National…

Sunriver has a new police chief and fire chief. Tim Moor was sworn in as fire chief Thursday afternoon, along with new Police Chief Cory Darling.…

A Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team investigation over the past several weeks led to a traffic stop Thursday and the arrest of a 33-year-old Bend…

Five men were arrested on various charges last Friday in the first patrol by the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office’s new Community Action…