Month: October 2018

Last week, Hurricane Michael made landfall on the Florida Panhandle. At least 50 people have died from the storm and losses are estimated at $8 billion to $11 billion. NewsChannel 21 spoke Friday to a woman who grew up in Bend, but has been living in Florida for the past three years. Kaleo Renstrom said

A Southern California man was arrested last month, booked into the Deschutes County Jail on Thursday and arraigned Friday on robbery and theft charges in the July 2017 robbery of Shop Smart, a La Pine grocery store, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. On the Friday morning of July 28, 2017, a man with sunglasses on

Happy Friday evening, everyone! An AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY is in effect through Tuesday morning for air quality levels suffering due to smoke. The air mass will not move much for the next few days, so we’ll see poor air quality levels from time to time. Hazy skies will stay with us. Overnight our skies stay

(Update: Adding full text of presidential proclamation) DENVER (AP) – President Donald Trump has ordered the government to streamline regulations that he says are hindering work on four major water projects in the western United States. Trump signed a memorandum Friday aimed at helping the Central Valley Project and the California State Water Project in

Oregon State University-Cascades announced Friday it has received a $62,500 gift from Seven Peaks Ventures, a Bend-based venture capital fund, that will support a faculty scholar in the school’s computer science program. The gift was announced in front of an audience of more than 400 investors and entrepreneurs at the Bend Venture Conference. Dino Vendetti,

A three-count indictment unsealed in federal court in Eugene on Friday charges two Prineville men with conspiracy to transfer and unlawful possession of a machine gun. According to the indictment, between May and June of this year, Michael James Friesen, 32, agreed to broker the sale of a Guide Lamp, Model M3A1, .45 ACP caliber

A well-known Bend beverage company, Humm Kombucha, announced this week that it’s laying off more than a dozen local employees and several more elsewhere. On Wednesday, the business let workers know that 21 people would be losing their jobs. About 15 of those affected work in Central Oregon, and the rest around the country. According

The former director of the Redmond Proficiency Academy, who spent over a year in prison for abusing two underage students and faced trial next week on new allegations, has removed his GPS ankle bracelet and is likely fleeing the state, police said Thursday as they asked the public for help in finding him. Police are

Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies are investigating an unusual string of graffiti vandalism in La Pine — incidents that included words and markings spray-painted on the side of a horse late this summer. Back in August, a La Pine family came home to find their house, car and even horse tagged with graffiti. The vandals left

Friday starts with some parts of Central Oregon under an Air Stagnation Advisory and we’ll remain there until Tuesday at 10 a.m. Over the next few days we’ll stay under clear skies, with some hazy to due smoke in the region from proscribed burns. Above average highs will also be with us until Monday. Early

Something is killing first responders at staggering rates, and the answer is us. So says ODOT, which is joining in a nationwide campaign this Saturday to remind people what they need to do when they encounter emergency vehicles — or any vehicle — on the side of the road: Move over. Every year, drivers are

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – The federal government has again asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a climate change lawsuit filed by a group of young people that is scheduled to go to trial in Oregon later this month. The Register-Guard reports government attorneys filed a mandamus petition Thursday seeking to dismiss the case,

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon woman is suing Bank of America, claiming a Hillsboro branch transferred $13,000 from her account to scammers. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Rebekah “Becky” Adams filed the lawsuit this week in Marion County, claiming a teller failed to inform her that the money she wanted transferred was actually sent to a

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – LeBron James opened with two thunderous dunks and had 26 points and 12 rebounds in his first game with the Los Angeles Lakers, but the Portland Trail Blazers prevailed 128-119 Thursday night in the season opener for both teams. Damian Lillard had 28 points and Nik Stauskas came off the bench

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – Calls to breach four hydroelectric dams in Washington state have grown louder in recent months as the plight of the critically endangered Northwest orcas has captured global attention. Some argue the quickest way to get more fish to the starving salmon-eating whales is to tear down four dams on the Lower

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must come up with a plan to protect salmon from warm water temperatures, which can be fatal for the fish species. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports Thursday that record-high water temperatures in rivers across the Pacific Northwest in 2015 led environmental

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Nike co-founder Phil Knight has given another $1 million to the gubernatorial campaign of Republican Rep. Knute Buehler. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that the contribution was filed with the state late Wednesday and brings Knight’s total direct spending on Buehler’s campaign against Democratic Gov. Kate Brown to $2.5 million. Knight’s spending on

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – State Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian in a court filing has accused top legislative officials of ignoring subpoenas issued by his agency in its investigation of sexual harassment at the Oregon Capitol. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the filings Wednesday seek contempt of court rulings and $1,000 a day fines against Senate President Peter

A raid on a home north of Prineville Thursday morning resulted in the arrest of a resident accused of rape and sex abuse, as well as a probation violation, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said. In the past week, the sheriff’s office was contacted by a woman who reported a sexual assault had occurred this month

Imagine all you have is an RV that holds your entire life, parked on a Bend street. Now, imagine that RV being tagged with a hateful message telling you to leave town. That’s what two people in Bend woke up to Wednesday morning. Wendy Erickson and her son, Ben, live out of a van that