Month: September 2018

(Update: Adding more details about facility) Central Oregon is growing rapidly, and its public safety agencies are hoping to keep up with that growth by building new facilities that several agencies can use. In fact, during the solar eclipse last year, agencies had to move into the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond because it was

Officials on Thursday will start hunting for the cougar that likely killed a Gresham woman hiking in the Mt. Hood National Forest. Hounds will be taken into the woods where the body of Diana Bober was found this week. Bober was reported missing on Aug. 29 and her body was found Monday near the Hunchback

A tarp that blew into a transmission line opened a circuit-breaker and knocked out power to nearly 1,200 Central Electric Cooperative members north of Bend for close to an hour Wednesday afternoon, officials said. The tarp was blown into a transmission line at Quarry Avenue and Canal Boulevard in Redmond, opening a transmission breaker at

Happy Wednesday evening, everyone! A trough is centered over the Pacific Northwest bringing us unsettled, cool weather. We’ll see winds out of the northwest around 15 miles per hour. Clouds are expected overhead through the end of the day. A chance for showers will stay with us through the overnight as we cannot rule out

Members of the Oregon Air National Guard’s 125th Special Tactics Squadron mobilized from Portland to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Wednesday to provide humanitarian support for Hurricane Florence relief. About a dozen 12 Oregon Air National Guardsmen departed from the Portland Air National Guard Base at 2 p.m. on a California Air National

(Update: Comments from news conference) Law enforcement and other agencies said Wednesday they plan to use hounds as they try to track down the cougar believed to have attacked and killed a Gresham woman who was hiking in the Mn. Hood National Forest late last month. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said it

SEATTLE (AP) – Experts say they are preparing a plan to capture and treat a sick, critically endangered orca if there is no way to save it in the wild. They told reporters Wednesday they’re preparing to rescue the animal known as J50 if she separates from her family or gets stranded while alive. NOAA’s

(Update: Trucker identified as Portland man) Oregon State Police have identified a semi-truck driver from Portland who was killed early Wednesday morning when his rig left Interstate 84 near The Dalles, crashed into a rock embankment and caught fire. Troopers and emergency personnel responded shortly before 2 a.m. to the single-vehicle crash on the freeway

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – State wildlife officials will kill members of a new wolf pack that have attacked cattle in northeast Washington. Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind authorized the killing Wednesday. It’s the second time in a month he’s approved lethal remove of wolves. Officials say the wolves killed a calf and

Requiring physical activity classes in college encourages sedentary students to become more active, while elective classes tend to draw those who are already motivated, new research from Oregon State University has found. “When there is no requirement but the courses are available as electives, the students who take the courses tend to be those who

Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced Wednesday more than $5.8 million in U.S. Department of Transportation grants to fund repairs, upgrades and more at Oregon airports, including more than $2.5 million to reconstruct the taxiway at Madras Municipal Airport. “These grants provide much-needed support to rural airports across the state,” said Merkley,

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Wednesday asked Verizon to explain why it endangered communities threatened by wildfires and first responders by recently throttling the data speeds of firefighters’ communications. Wyden’s letter to Verizon comes in the wake of troubling reports that Verizon slowed – or “throttled” — the data speeds on fire officials’ unlimited Verizon

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A woman accused of gunning down her chef husband in Portland is a self-published romance writer who once penned an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband.” The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that 68-year-old Nancy Crampton Brophy published the 700-word treatise in 2011 on the website See Jane Publish. She had also written

(Update: OSP releases names, details of crash) A Medford man was killed and a Gresham man was injured Tuesday evening in a head-on crash of a van and SUV on U.S. Highway 26 on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Oregon State Police said Wednesday. Troopers and emergency personnel responded around 5:30 p.m. to the reported

There will be a first-ever nationwide test of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) on Thursday, Sept. 20. IPAWS encompasses the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alert System (WEA). The test, coordinated by FEMA and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will be broadcast via radio, TV, cable stations and wireless carriers.

The Tepee Fire southeast of Bend is now 75 percent contained and the Willow Fire northwest of Madras is now 100 percent contained, officials said Wednesday. Here’s the full update from the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center: The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office dropped all evacuation levels for the Tepee Fire Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m.

Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Cory Gardner, R-Colo., Ed Markey, D-Mass., Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., called on the State Department to adopt basic cybersecurity measures to protect against phishing, hacks and other cyberattacks, in a letter released Wednesday. Following multiple reports from outside auditors highlighting the department’s failure to adopt measures like

Celebrate and care for your community by volunteering on Saturday, September 29 for the SOLVE Beach & Riverside Cleanup, in partnership with the Oregon Lottery. SOLVE invites all Oregonians to help remove invasive plants and clean up hundreds of miles of beaches, rivers, and city streets before fall rains wash litter and debris into storm

Good Wednesday Morning, Everyone…After the passage of a weak cold front we will be left with less wind, but cool temps and a slight chance of isolated afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. Highs will be in the mid 60’s. NW breezes will be gentle at 5-10 mph. Our best chance at some mid-week rain

The future of Bend’s Westside is up for debate, and a packed hearing Tuesday night was one of the first steps in deciding its fate. It’s called the Westside Transect Zone, and it’s an area on the west side of town just past the urban growth boundary. The area was set aside to provide a