Month: April 2019

Deschutes County announced Friday it has hired Geoff Hinds as the new director of the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center. Hinds, who will assume…

The City of Bend’s Water Filtration Facility will soon generate clean, renewable power, thanks to funding from Pacific Power’s Blue Sky…

Travelers on state Highway 22 and U.S. Highway 20 between Central Oregon and the Willamette Valley are being advised by the Oregon Department of…

Good Friday Morning, Everyone… Today we get to enjoy a break between storm systems. Even though we do see a few clouds today we are expecting…

The Oregon Department of Agriculture has 63 open commissioner seats on the state’s agricultural and commercial fisheries commodity commissions.…

Safety advocates gathered Thursday in Portland to voice concern about a growing danger: driving while distracted. In Oregon over the past five years,…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Plastic straws could be off the menu under a measure making its way through the Oregon Legislature. The Oregon Senate voted…

The Oregon Department of Human Services announced several steps Thursday to ensure the safety of more than 80 children and youth in out-of-state…

Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Cory Gardner (R-CO) led a bipartisan group of senators in introducing legislation Thursday to ensure that legal…

Think Wild, a Bend-area wildlife rescue and rehabilitator, is currently undergoing some rehab of its own, getting to work upgrading its facility and…

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration is implementing the direction he successfully included in the…

Happy Thursday evening, everyone! Winds stay breezy at times tonight gusting around 20 miles per hour. We have the slight chance for showers on the…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The U.S. Attorney’s office in Oregon said a Canadian man was charged Thursday with possession with intent to…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Federal prosecutors say they grew marijuana in Oregon, transported it to Texas and Virginia, and received cash payments…

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Oregon announced Thursday that it has partnered with the Ford Family Foundation to expand two proven…

A 50-foot-wide, 10-foot-deep hole opened up in a southern Oregon coastal highway late Wednesday night — and two cars plunged into it, with one…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Hundreds of proposed bills have met their demise as Oregon lawmakers turn their attention to other legislative priorities.…

Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Ben Cardin, D-Md., introduced legislation Thursday to allow the IRS to require…

The National Association of Letter Carriers will conduct its 27 th annual national food drive on Saturday, May 11, benefiting NeighborImpact in…

Starting this summer, Oregon State University-Cascades will host high school students on the Bend campus in August for an overnight Summer Academy,…