Month: August 2019

Philanthropic groups are partnering with the state of Oregon to ensure hard-to-count areas are included in the 2020 census. The Census Equity Funders Committee of Oregon consists of nearly 40 groups, including the Meyer Memorial Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation and United Way of the Columbia-Willamette. Kendall Clawson, executive director of Grantmakers of Oregon and Southwest

With the signing of House Bill 2817 by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, members of the Oregon National Guard will be able to receive tuition assistance at Oregon Health and Science University and private institutions, in addition to community colleges and public higher education institutions. The law will expand higher education grants to qualified members of

Happy Tuesday evening, everyone! Winds will be breezy through the end of the night as a cold front approaches the region. Expect winds to gust around 25 miles per hour. Overnight we’ll see partly cloudy skies turning mostly clear by the morning. Temperatures will be in the upper 40s and lower 50s, which is above

Just looking at Central Oregon’s July still-low jobless rates, out Tuesday, would indicate an economy that’s stable and humming along. But the state’s regional economist said newly revised payroll figures make clear that a ” dramatic slowdown ” in job growth has hit this year, with some sectors seeing fewer jobs than a year ago

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A new Portland State University study says an estimated 38,000 people in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties experienced homelessness at some point in 2017. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the first-of-its-kind study takes a regional and more expansive view of homelessness than the single-night tallies required by the federal government, which each county

Authorities on Tuesday identified a 27-year-old Oregon State University graduate student from India who drowned after jumping off a rock cliff into Crater Lake Sunday afternoon. The National Park Service said Sumedh Mannar jumped from a spot known as “Jumping Rock” at Cleetwood Cove around 4:40 p.m. Sunday and did not resurface. Crater Lake National

So far this summer, Central Oregon had seen a relatively mild fire season, but are you prepared in case the worst happens? Barb West, whose home in Paradise, California, was among the many destroyed by the deadly Camp Fire last year, said we can do more. West lives in Bend now, and she spoke Tuesday

The Crook County Sheriff’s Office will be joining other law enforcement agencies around the state and country in a national high-visibility enforcement event during the Labor Day holiday. The goal is to increase the number of law enforcement officers on the street aggressively seeking out impaired drivers. The focus of the high visibility enforcement is

Welcome to the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday segment. This week: building a digital defense against check cashing scams. There are lots of new apps these days that allow you to instantaneously pay friends and family for your share of dinner, a movie or the upcoming summer vacation. With all of this technology, checks might seem

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., who co-authored the Volcker Rule with former Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., released the following statement Tuesday after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation voted to pass a new rulemaking he said is designed to gut the Volcker Rule, with other Trump administration financial regulators expected to follow suit soon. Merkley said the

(Update: More comments from family’s attorney) The wife of a man who was gored to death by a yak on their Redmond-area hobby farm is suing Deschutes County’s 911 system for $7 million, saying a dispatcher failed to send an ambulance when the man called. The wrongful death lawsuit, filed last week in Deschutes County

Grocery store workers in Central Oregon and elsewhere in the state are considering going on strike, possibly later this month. Members of the union, Local 555 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, are demanding higher wages and equal pay for women from employers. A representative from the union described the pay to grocery store

(Update: Adding Nelson’s email to employees; Crook County sheriff’s comments) Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson told NewsChannel 21 on Monday he has put the brakes on a planned sale to deputies of nearly 50 old rifles, saying he didn’t want the action to be misinterpreted. NewsChannel 21 asked to speak with Nelson after receiving a

SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey is greatly increasing funding for the region’s seismic network, putting it on track to send public alerts of impending earthquake shaking within the next two years. The Seattle Times reports the federal agency gave $10.4 million to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) for the next two years.

One worker was taken to the hospital with apparently minor injuries Monday afternoon after trusses on a southwest Redmond building project collapsed, fire officials said. Redmond Fire & Rescue crews were dispatched to Southwest Glacier Avenue and 15th Street around 3;45 p.m. and found one person in a “scissor lift” under a pie of fallen

Redmond’s Vern Patrick Elementary School has received at $5,000 grant from the Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation to support its community school programming in the 2019-2020 school year. Vern Patrick Elementary’s community school program offers after school enrichment activities that complement academic programs to support student success. Students are able to participate in extra-curricular activities

(Update: Expands throughout) SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A class-action lawsuit claims that an Oregon creamery association falsely advertises the source of its milk, a report said. The lawsuit was filed by the Animal Legal Defense Fund against the Tillamook County Creamery Association in western Oregon, The Statesman Journal reported Monday. The lawsuit by the California-based

From the horse and buggy to the internet, the world witnessed vast technological advances through the 19th and 20th centuries, many of them based on fossil fuel consumption. Today, meeting the world’s growing energy demand is one of our greatest challenges. A new High Desert Museum exhibit, Fueling the Future/ Energizando el Futuro , looks

Good Tuesday Morning, Everyone… High pressure will continue to dictate hot, dry conditions over the High Desert today. Under sunny skies we will see daytime highs climb into the low to mid 90’s . Overall, breezes will be light and variable throughout the day with a brief and light NW breeze in the late afternoon.

The Oregon Fire Service Honor Guard and the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training extend an invitation to attend the State’s 14th annual Oregon Fallen Fire Fighters Memorial on Thursday, Sept. 19 at 1 p.m. The ceremony will be held at the State’s Fallen Firefighter Memorial which is located on the campus of