Month: January 2019

CRESWELL, Ore. (AP) – A 12-year-old boy is being held in juvenile detention on suspicion of killing a 92-year-old Lane County woman. The Register Guard reports that Emma Burnell was found dead in her Creswell home on Monday afternoon after someone called authorities to report an injured person at her address. Jason Davis, a Lane

Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., introduced a bill this week they say would allow Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices for the 43 million seniors who participate in Medicare Part D. “Medicare should be able to use its massive bargaining power to lower seniors’ drug prices. It’s high time to rein in

(Update: Hearing underway; City Hall packed) As expected, an overflow crowd of at least 100 people filled the Bend City Hall chambers and hallways outside Thursday for a hearing on a proposed 170-unit apartment complex in southwest Bend. A city land-use hearings officer first heard from the applicant and proponents of the project on nearly

If you live in southeast Bend, there’s some road construction coming your way. A $32 million improvement project on Murphy Road is planned to begin this fall. The project extends from Parrell Road to 15th Street and will begin with a railroad overpass, followed by an extension of Murphy Road from Brosterhous Road to 15th

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A Portland bar is suing one of its bartenders for $115,000, claiming that’s the amount of money it will lose when its taps run dry because the bartender broke Oregon Liquor Control Commission rules. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the suit claims Gunnar Hokan Jorstad was drunk while serving customers last Jan. 13

Good Thursday Morning, Everyone…We sit out ahead of another storm system that is expected to move southward into California and that will give us a very pleasant day. Under mostly sunny skies, highs will be scattered throughout the 40’s and southerly breezes will be gentle at 5-10 mph. Those breezes will turn SE tonight. Skies

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Lane County officials are planning to relocate people in a homeless camp near Eugene to a new location managed by the St. Vincent de Paul organization. The Register-Guard reports officials will close the camp on State Highway 99 on Monday and move dozens of people to the new site a short

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – CJ McCollum had 24 points and the Portland Trail Blazers pulled away in the final quarter to send the Chicago Bulls to their fifth straight loss, 124-112 on Wednesday night. Jusuf Nurkic had 18 points and eight rebounds but got into foul trouble and came up just short of his fifth

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Oregon wildlife officials have started killing sea lions that threaten a fragile run of winter steelhead in the Willamette River. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the state Department of Fish and Wildlife obtained a federal permit in November to kill up to 93 California sea lions per year below Willamette Falls south

A man armed with a spiked metal tool threatened to kill others at a northeast Bend transient camp Tuesday afternoon, prompting a major police call-out before he eventually surrendered quietly, officers said. Deschutes County 911 dispatchers got a call shortly before 4 p.m. from a woman reporting that the man, later identified as transient Nathan

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Former Oregon football player Doug Brenner has filed a lawsuit against the university, the NCAA, former coach Willie Taggart and a former strength coach for negligence over a strenuous workout that sent him and two other players to the hospital. Brenner is seeking $11.5 million in damages from the January 2017

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat from Oregon, seeks to regulate marijuana like alcohol. The bill introduced Wednesday would take marijuana off the federal controlled substances list and establish a nationally regulated industry overseen by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Blumenauer has long advocated

The city of Bend will hold five public workshops about Bend’s Transportation Plan update between Jan. 23-31. Each of the five workshops is focused on a particular area of town, but all community members are welcome at all workshops. The workshops will provide community members the opportunity to give input on the how the city

Happy Wednesday evening, everyone! We’ll see some breezy conditions at times out of the south as we’re in between systems. A chance for mixed showers develops for Central Oregon around 9 p.m. Showers will have the best chance in higher elevations and closer to the Cascades. The chance will dwindle by the morning as we

The Homeless Leadership Coalition will be kicking off the annual Point-In-Time Count in Central Oregon on Wednesday, Jan. 23. The event is a count of people who are homeless or in transitional housing in Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson counties. The count is a part of a state and national effort to identify the number of

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon’s Court of Appeals has rejected a lawsuit filed by children years ago that seeks to force the state to do more to protect public resources from climate change. The case, filed in 2011, says the “public trust” doctrine under Oregon common law requires the state to protect resources like beaches

Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., on Wednesday applauded House passage of legislation to improve America’s pandemic preparedness and modernize over-the-counter drug regulation. On Tuesday, the House passed the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019 by a sweeping bipartisan vote of 401-71. “The bipartisan Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of

Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week co-sponsored legislation that would expand federal background checks to all gun sales. They said the Background Check Expansion Act would fix federal law that unlicensed or private sellers are not required to conduct a background check prior to transferring a firearm. “Students, parents and teachers throughout

Cascades East Transit is developing a Transit Master Plan to identify conceptual transit service over the next 25 years. Six community open house events will be held throughout Central Oregon in January to collect input from residents regarding the vision, goals, and near-term priorities for transit. Public comments can also be submitted online through February

The Oregon Department of Education and Portland Public Schools must do more to evaluate costs and eliminate persistent barriers to student performance at struggling, high-poverty schools, a state audit released Wednesday says. PPS has a 53% achievement gap between white and African American students. This gap is substantially worse than the state average, according to