Month: April 2019

Saving and knowing how to handle your money is the theme for April. This month is Youth Savings Month, Financial Literacy Month and Credit Union Month. A recent Bankrate study highlighted how unprepared most Americans are for a financial emergency, finding that only 40 percent of respondents could pay an unexpected bill of $1,000 from

Good evening Central Oregon and happy Sunday! A very rainy and stormy day across the state of Oregon and the High Desert. We are looking at rain showers continuing overnight and into tomorrow. Breezy conditions are expected overnight out west at 10-15 MPH and we could see gusts up around 25 MPH. Overnight lows will

SEATTLE (AP) – The CEO of Seattle City Light says more than two dozen power poles that collapsed near the Museum of Flight underwent a “full inspection” three years ago. The Seattle Times reports Debra Smith in an interview says some poles were replaced in 2016 and others were due to be replaced within five

(Update: OSP IDs suspect, provides details) A Monroe, Washington man showed a gun, threatened an Oregon State Police trooper and barricaded himself in a Crescent residence where he was staying, prompting a standoff that led to call-out of an OSP SWAT team and closure of Highway 97 on Saturday, troopers said. Troopers said Richard Dale

An Alfalfa-area woman was arrested on drunken driving charges early Saturday, accused of crashing into a parked car on a northeast Bend street while eating a burrito, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. Around 12:30 a.m., a citizen alerted a deputy on patrol about a nearby crash in the 800 block of Locksley Drive, Sgt. Kent

A 20-year-old Bend man who pleaded guilty in a string of marijuana dispensary break-ins last year was caught with a K-9’s assisting bite and arrested early Saturday after he broke into the Bi-Mart store with a rock and tried to leave with a backpack full of prescription drugs, police said. Officers were dispatched to the

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police in southern Oregon have found a body at the home of a missing man who was an original member of Disney’s “The Mickey Mouse Club.” The Oregonian/Oregon Live reports 76-year-old Dennis Day was reported missing July 15 by his husband, Ernie Caswell. Phoenix, Oregon, police on Thursday asked death investigators

Happy Sunday Central Oregon! We are going to see rainy and windy conditions for the day. We will see temperatures right around average for today in the upper 50s to low 60s. Today is also going to be windy, we will see sustained winds out of the southwest at 15-20 MPH with gust up around

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – Oregon guard Sabrina Ionescu is returning for her senior season. The Ducks star bylined a story on The Players Tribune titled “Unfinished Business” on Saturday night, minutes after the deadline for her to declare for the WNBA draft expired. She was eligible to enter the draft following her junior season because

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) – Cristian Espinoza had a goal and an assist on Saturday night and the San Jose Earthquakes earned their first points of the season with a 3-0 win over the Portland Timbers. Shea Salinas opened the scoring in the 15th minute, scoring from a run through the center of the 6-yard

Good evening Central Oregon! We are seeing a new system move into the region with rain and wind making its way into the region. We are starting to see the winds pick up out of the south at 15-25 MPH and we could see gusts up as high as 35 MPH. We are also going

A 58-year-old Madras man has been sentenced to two months in jail for downloading a dozen child pornography images, a Jefferson County prosecutor said Friday. Timothy Eugene Schnell pleaded no contest Thursday to three Class C felony counts of second-degree encouraging child sexual abuse before Senior Judge Daniel Ahern, Chief Deputy District Attorney Brentley Foster

Happy Saturday, everyone! Saturday morning begins with chances for showers already and we’ll have showers across the Cascades and out east.Temperatures will be cool in the upper 20s and lower 30s. Showers become scattered in the afternoon, but winds will also be gusty. Winds will top around 45 to 50 miles per hour as the

DENVER (AP) – Nikola Jokic scored 10 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter, Paul Millsap finished with 25 points, and the Denver Nuggets clinched the Northwest Division title with a 119-110 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night. Jokic added 13 rebounds and nine assists to lead the Nuggets to their

The Oregon State University Board of Trustees on Friday approved tuition for the 2019-20 academic year representing a 4.29% increase for full-time Oregon resident undergraduates attending OSU’s Corvallis campus and a 4.44% increase for full-time resident undergraduates at OSU-Cascades in Bend. Student fees determined by the university and student governments on the Corvallis and OSU-Cascades

Happy Friday evening, everyone! Tonight we’ll see a brief clearing behind a passing front out to the east. We’ll look to see partly cloudy skies with chances for showers already by the morning. Overnight lows will be some of the coldest temperatures we’ve seen this week in the upper 20s and lower 30s. Winds will

Drivers can expect delays and detours at the BNSF Railroad crossing along SE Evergreen Avenue (OR 126) in Redmond Sunday through Friday (April 7-12), between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. The crossing is located just east of U.S. Highway 97. The closure is needed for railroad repairs, officials said. Eastbound traffic will be detoured onto

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a bill raising the state’s smoking age to 21, making it the ninth state in the nation to enact such a change. Set to take effect in 2020, the bill signed by Inslee Friday raises the legal age for both tobacco products and so-called “vape”

Despite drier than normal weather throughout the month of March, mountain snowpack across Oregon remains near normal, or in some cases above normal, according to the April Water Supply Outlook Report released Friday by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Here’s the NRCS news release summarizing the report: The first part of March experienced continued

On Wednesday, Fortis Construction, Inc. donated a trailer full of non-perishable food items to the Lutheran Community Services Food Pantry located at 1103 NE Elm Street in Prineville. Prior to the delivery, the pantry shelves were bare due to an increase in consumer consumption in February and March. The LCS Food Pantry provided over 88