Visit Bend shifts to ‘sustainable tourism’ stance
Leave-No-Trace practices. Sustainable tourism. A focus on community. F or two years, Visit Bend has been weaving these values into everything from…
Continue ReadingLeave-No-Trace practices. Sustainable tourism. A focus on community. F or two years, Visit Bend has been weaving these values into everything from…
Continue ReadingVarying degrees of flooding have occurred in numerous portions of the Lower Deschutes and John Day rivers over the past several days, the Bureau of…
Continue ReadingThe Oregon Department of Human Services announced Wednesday the development of a plan to return to Oregon dozens of foster youth who are being served…
Continue ReadingREDMOND, Wash. (AP) – Authorities say a 20-month-old boy survived a six-story fall from a suburban Seattle apartment window after the toddler…
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to recognition of key community members, few are more deserving than 9-1-1 operators in Oregon. Each second week of April, this year…
Continue Reading(Update: Adding video, passenger comments) All four rear tires on a United Express flight from San Francisco to Redmond blew out upon landing at…
Continue ReadingGood Thursday Morning, Everyone… A strong, wet flow out of the NW will keep flooding rain in the forecast for those west of the cascades and…
Continue ReadingHunger-relief advocates are gathering in Salem Thursday to urge lawmakers to root out hunger in Oregon. Hundreds of folks from food banks across the…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Rookie Anfernee Simons scored a career-high 37 points in his first start of the season and the Portland Trail Blazers…
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Mitch Haniger hit a tiebreaking homer with two outs in the ninth inning, lifting the Seattle Mariners over the Royals…
Continue ReadingA Bend man apparently high on psilocybin mushrooms smashed his pickup into two vehicles and through a fence around construction equipment in the Old…
Continue ReadingHigh water from recent rain and snowmelt has rivers running fast and over their banks across the state. O fficials said the worst of the flooding in…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Senate on Thursday shot down a plan to limit the state’s supply of recreational, legal marijuana. Senate…
Continue ReadingThree days of samples showing abnormally cloudy, turbid water prompted a boil-water notice Wednesday for Warm Springs residents. The tribes’…
Continue ReadingHappy Wednesday evening, everyone! Breezes stay with us overnight with winds gusting around 10 to 15 miles per hour out of the west. Overcast to…
Continue Reading(Update: More about plane’s occupants; had left Sisters earlier) Two men sustained minor injuries Wednesday morning when their 73-year-old…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Court of Appeals has upheld the state’s unusual non-unanimous jury law when it declined to reverse a…
Continue ReadingThe 43 rd Annual SELCO Pole Pedal Paddle is Saturday, May 18th. The price increases on Friday, April 12, so sign up now! Just click www.pppbend.com…
Continue ReadingSen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Wednesday urged the Federal Communications Commission to act as soon as possible to establish a new three-digit phone…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A federal judge has sentenced a 50-year-old Tigard man to 15 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release…
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