Month: October 2018

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – Washington state’s Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty violates its Constitution. The ruling Thursday makes Washington the latest state to do away with capital punishment. The justices said the “death penalty is invalid because it is imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased manner.” They ordered that people currently

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Republican Party has filed a complaint with the state’s ethics commission, asking for an investigation into whether Democratic Gov. Kate Brown used public funds for campaign purposes, after a video from a conservative activist surfaced. James O’Keefe, founder of the nonprofit Project Veritas, is best known for unscrupulous tactics

If conditions remain favorable, firefighters will continue with prescribed burning on the Deschutes National Forest over the next few days. Burns are planned on the Sisters and Bend-Fort Rock ranger districts. On Friday, the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District is planning burn operations about 5 miles north of Cabin Lake and 20 miles east of La

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office has announced it is now accepting adoption applications for the Terrebonne horses seized in March of this year. “Due to such a high interest in the horses, we will perform a lottery-type draw system to determine the selection order of perspective adopters,” the agency said in a Facebook post late

A jump-starter kit equipped with a lithium battery started a fire at a Bend home, causing about $275,000 in damage. From the outside, the home on Brightwater Drive looks as though nothing much has happened. However, once you step inside, the home is dark and dusty and the air is heavy with the smell of

Good Thursday Morning, Everyone…Today we begin to see high pressure take a strong grip over the western United States. With that, what few clouds we have this morning will clear and we will be left under sunny skies. Highs will stay a bit on the cool side, only reaching the upper 50’s to low 60’s,

Oregon Health Authority Director Patrick Allen released the following statement in response to Department of Homeland Security’s proposed public charge rule change, which was published in the Federal Register today: OHA is closely monitoring the proposed change to the Department of Homeland Security’s federal public charge rule that could impact access to essential services like

Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., offered his support Wednesday for a Senate resolution of disapproval that he said would roll back the Trump administration’s “junk insurance” plans. “These junk insurance plans the Trump administration has revived represent all the worst industry tricks and abuses. They punish Americans when they’re actually in need

Central Oregon Community College is now one step closer to finding its next president – and also may be closer to reviving its previously halted campus newspaper. The COCC Board of Directors got an update on the presidential search process at Wednesday night’s meeting.. It’s still early, but they are still on track, according to

(Update: OSP gives details on crash, possible DUII charge) A two-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 20 in Tumalo Wednesday afternoon sent both drivers to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Oregon State Police reported. Troopers were dispatched around 12:30 p.m. to the crash at Highway 20 and Bailey Road, OSP Captain Tim Fox said. An investigation

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Lawyers for President Donald Trump urged a federal appeals court in Portland to allow the administration to prevent certain transgender people from serving in the U.S. armed forces. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the U.S. Department of Justice argued Wednesday for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to lift a federal judge’s

Security video helped police find and arrest two teens accused of breaking into a northeast Bend convenience store late Friday night and stealing thousands of dollars worth of JUUL-brand e-cigarettes and other tobacco-related products, officers said. Police responded around 11:30 p.. Friday to the reported burglary at U.S. Market, at Butler Market Road and 27th

Senator Jeff Merkley announced Wednesday the introduction of the No Internment Camps Act, legislation to prevent the Trump Administration from forcing families fleeing persecution abroad into internment camps while they await their asylum hearings. Since the summer, the Trump Administration has aggressively pursued a strategy of forcing such families to wait in internment camps for

Happy Wednesday evening, everyone! We’re still looking at clouds throughout Central Oregon, which will gradually clear through the overnight. Temperatures were chilly for daytime highs today. Winds will be generally light out of the north around 10 miles per hour. Overnight lows will be cold in the upper 20s and lower 30s. Overnight we’ll see

Patients are now being more precisely diagnosed and treated, thanks to an Oregon State University researcher’s work in translational data science. A key to that science is ontologies: systematic descriptions of knowledge that allow for integration and analysis of lots of data, in this case medical data. In a paper published today in the New

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – New data shows the cost of fighting wildfires in Oregon reached an all-time high $514.6 million in 2018. According to figures from the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center, Oregon’s costs skyrocketed past last year’s record-setting total of $447 million. The Statesman Journal reports that all totaled, Oregon had 1,880 fires that burned

Crustal earthquakes are regular occurrences in Oregon. They are generally small and low-impact and can cause significant localized damage while the threat of a Cascadia Subduction Zone quake is a geologic hazard that will affect the entire state. On average, Cascadia quakes occur every 300 years and are caused by the shifting of geologic plates

Student smokers who appeared to be more dependent on nicotine were more likely to violate Oregon State University’s ban on smoking after the policy was adopted, new research has found. “Across the U.S., university smoke-free policies have been very popular and generally effective, but 100 percent enforcement is often a challenge,” said Marc Braverman, a

The Deschutes County Voter’s Pamphlet that hits mailboxes next week contains incorrect opening dates for the ballot drop site location in Sunriver, officials said Wednesday. The Sunriver ballot drop site, which is located at the Sunriver Area Public Library at 56855 Venture Lane, will open on Wednesday, Oct. 31 and remain open until 8 p.m.

(Update: Also could cause gas prices to spike in NW) PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia (AP) – A massive pipeline explosion in British Columbia risks cutting off the flow of Canadian natural gas to Washington state, and companies are urging customers to conserve. The blast Tuesday shut down the Enbridge natural gas pipeline, about 600 miles