The Oregon State University Board of Trustees on Friday approved spending nearly $277 million on seven remodeling, renovation and new construction projects on the university’s Corvallis and Bend campuses. The projects include construction of a second academic building at OSU-Cascades; renovation of Cordley Hall, the university’s largest teaching and research building; remodeling of a recently
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A 23-year-old Madras woman was arrested Monday night on DUII, hit-and-run and other charges, accused of crashing her car into a home and running away, police said. Police responded around 10:30 p.m. to the 600 block of Southwest Second Street on a report that a Subaru Legacy had crashed into the side of a home
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Central Oregon’s September employment picture was brighter than seen over the past several months, with job growth rates rebounding modestly, the state Employment Department reported Tuesday. Although rates of growth remain slower than this time last year, the region continues to add jobs and unemployment levels are unchanged, Regional Economist Damon Runberg said. Crook County:
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TUALATIN, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say Henry Thomas, the actor who starred as a child in “E.T. the Extra Terrestrial,” has been arrested for driving under the influence in Tualatin. The 48-year-old Thomas was booked into the Washington County Jail and faces the misdemeanor charge after police said they found him Monday in a stationary
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Youth in Deschutes County will join more than 150,000 children across the country in the 12th annual 4-H National Youth Science Day challenge throughout the month of October. This year’s challenge, Game Changers, teaches young people coding skills through three engaging hands-on activities. Deschutes County youth will hold a 4-H NYSD event featuring the Game
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Fuels specialists will begin burning piles in the Newberry National Volcanic Monument this week, U.S. Forest Service officials said Tuesday. The pile units are visible along Forest Road 21 near East Lake and Paulina Lake. There are 142 acres of hand, machine, and landing piles to be burned. The material is residual slash from hazard
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UMATILLA COUNTY, Ore. (AP) — A truck and skeletal remains found in the Columbia River have been connected to a 26-year-old missing person’s case from Washington state. KOMO-TV reports a couple who went scuba diving last week in Umatilla County, Oregon, reported they discovered a submerged Ford Ranger with Washington state license plates. Umatilla County
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COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say two boys were arrested and cited after a member of the Cottage Grove High School junior varsity football team was assaulted in the boy’s locker room as part of a hazing incident last month. Cottage Grove Police Chief Scott Shepherd said a school resource officer was alerted the
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has responded to President Donald Trump’s executive order giving state and local governments the authority to refuse to accept refugees. Brown said in a video posted Monday on Twitter that refugees are welcome in Oregon, and noted that it is a sanctuary state. The Democratic governor said
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Oregon Secretary of State Democratic candidate Mark Hass called Tuesday for a constitutional amendment that would allow residents to register up through the day of an election. Current law closes registration 21 days before the election. Here is the proposal as laid out in a news release from Hass, a state representative from Beaverton and
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Guardian Group, a nonprofit that fights human trafficking, said Tuesday it raised $60,000 at its first annual Gala at the Riverhouse on the Deschutes last Friday. The intimate event was aimed at raising funds to continue to bring the full fight to human trafficking here in Central Oregon and across the United States. Human trafficking
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(Update: New details from police) HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say police officers in Hillsboro, Oregon, fatally shot a man in their West Precinct parking lot. KOIN reports that officers were in the parking lot investigating suspicious behavior between two men who were standing outside their cars in the parking lot just after 6 p.m.
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-GOOD TUESDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… While our temperatures are expected to be mild today, the passage of a cold front will bring a 30% chance of scattered rain showers and some breezy conditions this afternoon. Highs will be in the low 60’s and NW winds will pick up to – 15 mph with some areas seeing
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Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and colleagues Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) on Monday introduced the Scrutinizing White House Activities that Make Profits (SWAMP) Act of 2019, legislation to prohibit any multilateral summits or meetings with foreign heads of state from being held at Trump Organization-owned properties. The SWAMP Act follows President Trump’s
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal employees overseeing U.S. public lands were assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over a five-year period marked by heightened tensions with anti-government groups and dwindling ranks of law enforcement officers, a congressional watchdog agency said Monday. The Government Accountability Office in a new report highlights anti-government tensions that at
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Scam callers are at it again, and a Bend woman says she recently almost fell for one scammer falsely claiming to be a Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy. Last Thursday, Dr. Sabrina Hadeed, a licensed professional counselor, said she received a phone call from a number she did not recognize. She said she did not answer
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(Update: Adding video, ODOT comments) The Oregon Department of Transportation and Facebook are entering into a partnership to place fiber-optic cable along more than 30 miles of highways in Central Oregon — and in exchange, give ODOT more broadband capacity for its own future road projects, as highways go high-tech. Kris Strickler, recently named ODOT’s
Continue Reading Happy Monday evening, everyone! Tonight we’ll see some clouds overhead and mild overnight lows. Temperatures will be in the upper 30s and lower 40s, which is about 10 degrees above normal. Winds will be a bit blustery overnight. Tomorrow sees some clouds in the morning which will stick around through the early afternoon. A chance
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A body recovered from the Willamette River in northwest Portland on Sunday afternoon is believed to be a missing University of Portland student whose disappearance has prompted widespread searches over the past two weeks, according to his family. The Portland Police Bureau reported Monday that a body was found in the area of the 9400
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State University has announced plans to immediately reinstitute an abandoned 2005 management plan for its McDonald-Dunn research forest outside Corvallis, in a sign of continued fallout from criticism of the school for clear-cutting a stand of ancient trees that included a 420-year-old giant. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the leader of the
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