Month: September 2018

Do you remember shopping for new school shoes, or bringing home a new winter coat? Deciding on your outfit for the first day of school? Thousands of students in Deschutes County have never had this traditional back-to-school experience. In fact, many of them have never shopped for new clothes or shoes, or owned clothes that

State and university employees do something amazing every fall. They transform into philanthropists, with the help of the State of Oregon Employees’ Charitable Fund Drive – a combined charitable giving campaign that benefits Oregon’s health, families, environment, human rights, education, and arts and culture. Each September, thousands of employees join forces through the Fund Drive

Good Tuesday Morning, Everyone… After a chilly, but clearer start to our day we are expecting to stay quite nice. With plenty of sunshine and a minimal smoky haze we will see our highs reach the low to mid 80’s…a lot like yesterday. Northerly breezes will be gentle at 5-10 mph. Skies will stay clear

KEIZER, Ore. (AP) – A 27-year-old man was found fatally shot in Keizer. The Keizer Police Department said the man was found early Tuesday morning at a residence. KOIN reports that a homicide investigation had been launched and officials believe that they’ve found all the people involved in the incident.

This week, the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday segment focuses on building a digital defense against student loan debt scams. After four great years of college, and maybe a few extra years at graduate school, an American student can walk away with a crushing amount of debt. Add that to rent or mortgage payments, utilities, groceries,

What do you get when you cross the on-demand travel advantages of an Uber or Lyft with a fixed-route bus line scrubbed due to low ridership? Perhaps a piece of the future of mass transit, in the form of a hybrid called microtransit — and it could be coming to Bend in some form, as

Police are investigating a string of break-ins at a food truck lot in northeast Bend — and it’s not the first to occur there in recent months. The owner of The Rouge Chef, Stefan Pena, said he woke up to an alert on his phone Monday morning, telling him that his food truck had been

(Update: Fire fully lined, two homes and 13 outbuildings destroyed) A nearly 200-acre day-old wildfire that destroyed two homes and more than a dozen other structures and prompted evacuations in Josephine County has been fully lined by a force of more than 200 firefighters, boosting containment to 30 percent, officials said Monday evening. Josephine County

Two flag displays in the Eagle Crest neighborhood west of Redmond have people talking. You might look at them and say one is patriotic and the other is not. But others might say it comes down to your views on how to express your First Amendment rights. This Labor Day, some residents let the fruits

Happy Labor Day, everyone! Tonight we’ll see breezy conditions out of the northwest through sunset. Winds will be calm overnight with mostly clear to clear skies overhead. Some haze is likely especially through Sunriver and La Pine. Overnight lows will be chilly, but around average in the upper 30s and lower 40s. Tomorrow sees sunshine

Traffic patterns in Bend will be impacted this week by two different Cascade Natural Gas projects. Starting Tuesday, crews will move to the alley on the west side of NW 14 th Street, between NW Galveston & NW Fresno avenues, and begin installing a second steel gas main. This work will continue in the alleys

Some of the clearest, most comprehensive images of the top several miles of the Earth’s crust have helped scientists solve the mystery of why Mount St. Helens is located outside the main line of the Cascade Arc of volcanoes. A giant subsurface rock formation some 20-30 miles in diameter, known as the Spirit Lake batholith,

SEATTLE (AP) – Billionaire Seahawks owner and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen made his largest-ever foray into congressional politics this year by donating $100,000 to a group seeking to keep Republicans in control of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Seattle Times reports that the June 14 donation, disclosed in July, went to Protect the House,

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A shooting at the Gateway Shopping Center in Northeast Portland left one man injured on Labor Day, while other unrelated shootings occurred over the holiday weekend in Seattle and Salem. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that just before 3:25 a.m. Monday, Portland police responded to reports of gunfire at the shopping center. Portland

(Update: Adding business owned by Thoma that was searched) A 50-year-old Bend businessman was arrested Saturday at Sawyer Park, accused of connecting with a child on the internet late last week and later committing several sex crimes with the youth at the juvenile’s Bend home, police said Sunday. Bend police began their investigation into reported

A Prineville driver said another motorist pulled a gun and hit him on the side of the face Saturday evening in a road rage incident that has officers seeking witnesses or anyone with information that could help in their investigation. Police received a call around 6:20 p.m. Saturday about an altercation between two drivers in

SEATTLE (AP) – Some of the teachers who were striking in southwest Washington state have reached tentative contract deals to end their walkouts. That’s according to a release sent out by the Washington Education Association on Monday. Teachers in the Vancouver, Ridgefield and Hockinson school districts have reached tentative contract agreements with their districts. Ridgefield

Temperatures in Bend and Prineville averaged warmer than normal in August, while precipitation for the month and year are below-average, according to preliminary data received by NOAA’s National Weather Service in Pendleton. First, Bend’s summary (readings are taken at the Bend Airport, east of the city): The average temperature was 65.8 degrees, which was 2

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The U.S. Forest Service is hiring 1,000 temporary workers for spring and summer of 2019 in Oregon and Washington. The Statesman Journal reports the federal agency announced the openings on Friday. Applications will be accepted between Sept. 17 and Oct. 12 for positions in fields including firefighting, recreation, natural resources, timber,