Month: June 2019

Good morning, Central Oregon! We’ll see dry westerly winds today 5-10 mph with mostly clear skies early this morning except for some marine clouds banked up to the Cascades. The flow will become southwesterly with increasing mid and high-level clouds by the early evening. Today will be mostly sunny, with highs in the 70s. Showers

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Senate was again unable to conduct business Sunday because of a Republican boycott of the Legislature over major climate change legislation. Meanwhile, dozens of supporters of the GOP senators’ walkout gathered at the Capitol for another weekend protest. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Senate President Peter Courtney announced lack of a

Legal fireworks sparked a fire that burned about an acre late Sunday afternoon near the Yarrow subdivision on the east side of Madras, officials said. Jefferson County Fire District No. 1 crews were called to the reported fire around 4:40 p.m. near the intersection of Southeast Yarrow Avenue and Honeysuckle Loop, said Lt. Kirk Hagman

Good evening Central Oregon and happy Sunday! Another great day on the High Desert, but things are a bit windy. We are seeing those winds out of the northwest at 10-15 MPH with gusts up around 25 MPH. Tonight we will see temperatures drop down into the upper 30s and low 40s. Heading into Monday

Madras Mayor Richard Ladeby will cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the city’s long-awaited splash park in Sahalee Park next Saturday at 9 a.m. Two of the project’s donors, the Bean Foundation and Keith Manufacturing, will be providing free snow cones to the first 500 kids who show up. The splash park was

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Oregon’s Department of Justice will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review last month’s ruling by the state Supreme Court that tossed the nearly 67-year sentences given to twin boys who were 15 when they murdered an elderly couple in Salem. The court said the sentences for Lydell White and Laycell

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A small group of people demonstrated outside the Oregon Capitol on Saturday to support a walkout by Republican lawmakers over major climate change legislation. The Capitol was closed Saturday on the recommendation of Oregon State Police, after anti-government groups threatened to join a protest planned inside the building. One of the

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Diego Valeri scored on a penalty kick and added three assists, leading the Portland Timbers to a 4-0 victory over the Houston Dynamo on Saturday night. Marvin Loria opened the scoring for Portland in the 39th minute, scoring off assists from Jorge Moreira and Valeri. Valeri converted a penalty kick in

Good evening Central Oregon! We are looking at another sunny day with cooler temperatures compared to Saturday. Daytime highs are set to top out in the upper 60s to low 70s. Average for this time of year is right around 78. We will also see the wind start to pick up in the afternoon hours

Friends of the Columbia Gorge and Dr. Heiner and Sheron Fruehauf on Friday reached a settlement agreement concerning the Fruehaufs ‘ plans to restore the historic View Point Inn in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area and open a new wellness retreat and other commercial uses on the property. The product of months of

Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) this week introduced legislation that would promote the growth of geothermal energy. Wyden and Cortez Masto said their Geothermal Energy Opportunities (GEO) Act would develop stronger public-private geothermal partnerships, reduce barriers to leasing public land for geothermal energy use where certain energy extraction activities are already

A series of earthquakes rumbled beneath the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon coast on Saturday morning, officials said. KGW reported the U.S. Geological Survey said there were eight quakes between 5:43 and 7:26 a.m., all about 220 miles off the coast at Newport. They ranged in magnitude from the weakest, at 3.2 on the Richter

(Update: Enters plea, released on bail after court appearance; some parents upset with district handling of situation) A 25-year-old educational assistant and assistant track coach at Jefferson County Middle School was released on bail after pleading not guilty Friday to 11 charges of sexually abusing a male student under 14 years of age over several

More than 50 pounds of methamphetamine and nearly five pounds of heroin were found hidden in a car stopped Wednesday for traffic violations on Interstate 5 in Jackson County, Oregon State Police reported Friday. The two Tacoma, Washington men in the vehicle were arrested. An OSP trooper from Central Point pulled over the northbound Mitsubishi

(Update; More information from fire district) A customer’s careless use of a cigarette, flicking hot ashes into bark mulch, sparked a smoldering fire that heavily damaged the back patio of a Sisters restaurant Friday morning but was stopped before it reached the building itself, officials said. A worker at a nearby Bi-Mart spotted the flames

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Legislature is one vote away from passing a first-in-the-nation law ending exclusive single-family zoning in much of the state. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the measure passed the state House Thursday on a bipartisan 43-16 vote and now moves to the Senate, where it could get tangled up by a

A Hood River County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a cougar next to a car with a baby inside at a home in Cascade Locks on Friday night, deputies said. The shooting took place around 9:45 p.m. at a home on John Quincy Avenue, deputies said. The cougar was beside a vehicle occupied by an

The Office of State Fire Marshal, the Oregon Fire Service, natural resource agencies, Oregon licensed fireworks wholesalers, and safety experts all encourage Oregonians to “keep it legal and keep it safe” when using fireworks. The 2019 Oregon fireworks retail sales season opens Sunday, June 23 and runs through July 6. The OSFM and their partners

Happy official start to summer Central Oregon, For Saturday through Sunday night, we’ll continue to see breezy conditions across the High Desert. Winds Saturday will be out of the northwest from 5-15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Winds will be from the northwest on Sunday. High temperatures through next week will be in

A Portland woman was sentenced Friday to 33 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for stealing over $1 million from a private foster care agency she led, as well as money laundering and filing false personal income tax returns. On Feb. 7, after eight days of trial, Mary Holden Ayala, 59, was