Month: June 2019

(Update: More details, Styrofoam ban fails) SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Senate voted Tuesday to prohibit single-use plastic shopping bags,…

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) – The Yakima County coroner has released the name of a man who was among five people shot to death on the Yakama Indian…

ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) – Oregon wildlife managers are considering updates to the state’s elk management strategy. The Astorian reported…

The city of Redmond is looking to create affordable housing in an unusual way. It’s selling two houses to the nonprofit Housing Works after the…

Temperatures are expected to climb into at least the mid-90s this week in some parts of Oregon. Health officials are recommending people prevent…

Amid all the ups, downs and cross-currents in the local and national economy, Bend’s median home sale price set yet another record in May,…

Let’s Pull Together is a volunteer-oriented multi-county noxious weed eradication event. The event is for every weekend gardener and concerned…

Mt. Bachelor, a POWDR company, announced Tuesday that the Woodward WreckTangle in Bend will be celebrating its official opening this Friday at its…

Happy Tuesday evening, everyone! Mostly sunny skies will carry us through the evening. We’ll see mostly clear skies overnight with low…

Classes are coming to an end this week, but Crook County High School just announced a new addition to one of its Career & Technical Education…

Oregon State University–Cascades will graduate its most diverse class ever during its 18th commencement ceremony Sunday, June 16, including a…

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) – The Yakima County coroner has released the names of four of the five people who were found shot to death on the Yakama…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A 38-year-old man is the person fatally shot by a Portland police officer Sunday after authorities say he threatened a…

A 35-year-old Warm Springs man was sentenced Tuesday to nearly six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter and…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – With an eye to making Oregon as big in cannabis as it is in craft brews and pinot noir, Oregon’s Legislature passed a…

Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday that she is accepting applications to fill judicial vacancies on the circuit courts in Deschutes, Josephine, and…

A Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued an injured man who fell about 800 feet into the caldera at Crater Lake on Monday afternoon, officials said.…

Being the parents of four children, ages 1 to nearly 13, takes a lot of organization and planning. And things can go wrong, in many little or…

Mountain towns across the West are working to preserve their communities’ natural resources, and Bend is one of the cities trying a new program…

CAMANO ISLAND, Wash. (AP) – Officials say a gray whale that washed ashore in Everett last month died of starvation. The Daily Herald reported…