Gov. Kate Brown ordered all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Sunday, Oct. 6 in recognition of National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Day. ” Our firefighters protect our land, our communities, and their fellow Oregonians, ” Brown said. ” I am thankful for the dedicated service of
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The Oregon Association of Municipal Recorders has presented Bend City Recorder Robyn Christie, MMC, with the 2019 City Recorder of the Year award. Christie received the award at the association’s annual conference banquet held at the Riverhouse on the Deschutes in Bend on Sept 19, 2019. The guidelines for Recorder of the Year state any
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LEBANON, Ore. (AP) — Police say a worker at an unlicensed day care south of Salem was arrested in connection with an infant who sustained a skull fracture and bruising on his legs. KPTV-TV reports police received a Department of Human Services referral Wednesday about the 7-month-old infant being treated at a hospital in Corvallis.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Portland woman who repeatedly defied county orders forbidding her from owning pets was sentenced to two years of probation and psychological counseling after authorities say she was found in possession of dozens of animals. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports some of those pets were tied up, were in poor health or wounded
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VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — An 80-year-old Washington state man arrested in a shooting that left one man dead and two women wounded at an apartment building for senior citizens was ordered by a judge to be held without bail after a Friday court appearance. Robert E. Breck made an initial appearance in Clark County Superior
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The construction project on U.S. Highway 20 near Santiam Pass will be paving and striping during the day, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., next Monday through Thursday, weather permitting, ODOT said Friday. The work includes the Mount Washington Viewpoint parking area. Access to the viewpoint will be closed for one or two days. Night temperatures
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A 26-year-old Bend man was arrested during a raid of his home Thursday on charges of uploading child pornography to the internet. The investigation and arrest resulted from a tip provided by a task force targeting such crimes, police said Friday. Bend police received a tip on Sept. 9 from the Internet Crimes Against Children
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Portland-area man with a severe nut allergy has sued Starbucks after saying he ordered coffee with soy milk but was given almond milk instead. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Thursday that 34-year-old Max Scher filed a $10,000 lawsuit against the company this week saying he had to rush to a Portland emergency
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Dutch Bros Coffee and its customers made the greatest impact yet during its 14 th annual Buck for Kids event, raising $453,813 for local children’s organizations. On Friday, Sept. 27, each of Dutch Bros’ more than 350 locations donated $1 from every drink sold to a children’s nonprofit organization of the local owner/operator’s choice. Supporting
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-GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… After a slight chance of some scattered showers in the morning our skies will clear and we can expect mostly sunny skies on a pretty cool Friday. Highs will be in the mid to upper 50’s and westerly breezes will pick up to 5 -15 mph with gusts a bit higher
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A Sisters man has been arrested after he allegedly cut down and stole a substantial amount of industrial hemp from a farm, authorities said. Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies were informed Tuesday that a large amount of industrial hemp was cut down and missing from a farmer’s field in an unincorporated area of Sisters, sheriff’s Sgt.
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A Prineville man was hospitalized Thursday after his pickup truck left the Powell Butte Highway and crashed into several boulders, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies responded around 3 p.m. to the reported crash near milepost 6, Deputy Javier Sanchez said. Deputies learned a GMC pickup driven by Harley Hunter, 61, was heading toward Prineville
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Several rescue agencies and dozens of young actors, some screaming and with realistic-looking wounds from a supposed ” bomb, ” put on a dramatic disaster drill Thursday morning at the Redmond Municipal Airport. Every three years, the Federal Aviation Administration calls for commercial airports the size of RDM to conduct disaster reenactments. Between 70 and
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(Update: Suspect identified) VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A man opened fire Thursday in the lobby of a building for senior residents, killing a man and wounding two women and then barricading himself inside his apartment before surrendering, police said. The injuries of the wounded people were critical and they were taken to a hospital, fire
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Upland game bird hunting season is underway, and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has a special request for hunters. ODFW conducts annual harvest surveys to understand which areas of the state hunters have the most success finding upland game birds like forest grouse. This year, they are also accepting wings and tails from
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Redmond School District’s StepUp Program has received a $40,000 donation from City Center Church to fund a school playground. StepUP serves students from ages kindergarten through 21 in a diverse set of programs. These include StepUP Transition, NextSTEPS and social-emotional learning programs for students K-12. The program is based at the Edwin Brown Education Center,
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The Great Oregon ShakeOut earthquake drill is almost here, and it’s time to think about what you would do during an earthquake. The world’s largest earthquake drill is Thursday, Oct. 17 at 10:17 a.m., and more than 600,000 Oregonians are already registered. You can register at shakeout.org to participate and be counted. Oregon is earthquake
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Applications for the OSU Master Gardener Program in Central Oregon are now available. The program targets individuals interested in becoming a trained volunteer who wants to learn and share research-based gardening information. The program starts with eight classes that meet on Wednesdays from 9 am – 4 pm, January 15 – March 18, 2020 at
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Sen. Ron Wyden announced Wednesday he is taking nominations from Oregonians through Jan. 20, 2020 for rivers in the state that deserve addition to the national Wild and Scenic Rivers list. “Whether you are a whitewater rafter, an angler or simply an Oregonian who believes strongly in protecting the river or stream that provides safe
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In a continuation of recent prescribed burn projects, fire managers on the Ochoco National Forest are planning to ignite juniper jackpots on 1,000 acres near Prineville as early as next week. The Old Dry Creek prescribed burn project is located about eight miles northeast of Prineville, about one mile southeast of McKay Creek, and four
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