Happy Tuesday evening, everyone! A FREEZE WARNING is in effect through Wednesday morning at 9 a.m. for cold temperatures and frosty conditions expected. Bundle up any plants and keep an eye on outdoor animals. Know we’ll see frost on surfaces, so be careful when traveling or walking. Overnight we’ll see mostly clear to partly cloudy
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The Deschutes Public Library Foundation’s Author! Author! literary series returns to the stage in 2020 with three bestselling and prolific authors, all of whom have found critical acclaim while still appealing to a broad audience: Barry Lopez, Susan Orlean and Michael Pollan . With 35 books between them, as well as a host of awards
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DEPOE BAY, Ore. (AP) — The body of a Clackamas man has been recovered a day after the U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search for him near Depoe Bay on the central Oregon coast. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the body of 58-year-old Hoang Minh Tran was recovered from the Pacific Ocean Tuesday morning. Callers reported to
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(Update: Adding details, quotes) BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Retail giant Under Armour has sued a Bend-based family business in a trademark dispute over its name Cascade Armory, officials said. Business owners Alex Short and his wife Diana received a cease-and-desist letter ahead of plans to open a retail front in Boise, Idaho, the Idaho Press-Tribune
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The 2019 fire season officially ended Tuesday on all lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry. The last district to end its fire season — the Southwest Oregon District, covering Josephine and Jackson counties — did so at 9 a.m. The 923 wildfires on ODF-protected lands this year is about average. However, thanks to
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Megan Kissel, executive board director for The Community Orchestra of Central Oregon, announced exciting news this week that the orchestra officially changed its name to Bend Pops Orchestra as of October 1. The group premiered its new logo as well. A new website with a more modern look and feel rounds out the rebrand. Ms.
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A fire that apparently began at or near an outdoor hot tub damaged an unoccupied home in Sunriver Tuesday morning, officials said. The Sunriver Fire Department was dispatched shortly before 9 a.m. to the fire at a single-story home on Topflite Lane, officials said. The La Pine Rural Fire District also sent a crew to
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Habitat created just for the threatened streaked horned larks on the Herbert Farm and Natural Area south of Corvallis has successfully produced its first juvenile larks, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said Tuesday. Three eggs were laid in early June with chicks hatching in mid-July. Biologists banded the chicks which fledged their nest
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MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A judge has ruled that the live-in handyman charged with killing Dennis Day, an original member of “The Mickey Mouse Club,” is unfit to stand trial. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that circuit Judge Lisa Greif ordered Daniel Burda committed to the Oregon State Hospital, citing an unspecified “mental disorder.” Court documents filed
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The city of Bend continues to look at ways to improve transportation in the growing community, and that could mean asking voters next spring to pass a bond to fund new projects. The city is looking at a long list of transportation projects that aim to improve issues the city is seeing. City councilors went
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — State health officials say three additional cases of severe lung illnesses linked to vaping have been reported, bringing the total to eight. The Oregon Health Authority said last week that two Oregon victims had died. That escalation prompted the state, lawmakers and Gov. Kate Brown to launch a barrage of anti-vaping
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Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced new bipartisan legislation Tuesday they say would address an injustice for some students wanting to use the American Opportunity Tax Credit for higher education. The AOTC is the primary tax credit available to students seeking a higher education; however, students with a prior felony drug conviction are permanently
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October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Marking the occasion, the Secretary of State’s Office has added a new Elections Security page to its website, at oregonvotes.gov/security, where Oregonians can learn more about the office’s security activities. The Secretary of State’s office has also published a podcast in which Deputy Secretary of State Rich Vial discusses
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Equine Outreach, Inc., a Bend horse rescue, finds itself in a perfect storm. The crop-killing weather that plagued the Midwest earlier this spring and the hundreds of thousands of acres of Oregon hay ground that is now being used to grow hemp has created a critical hay shortage which has dried up hay donations and
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The Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation is excited to announce that the annual Skyliners Ski Swap will be held on Saturday, Oct. 12, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Pavilion (Ice Rink), 1001 SW Bradbury Way in Bend. This will be the fourth year that the Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation is not charging admission
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(Update: DCSO corrects forest road number) A 59-year-old Redmond man was killed Saturday evening when his SUV left a Forest Service road off state Highway 242 west of Sisters and crashed head-on into a tree, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said Monday. Deputies and a U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officer were dispatched around 5:20 p.m.
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In October, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients may see an increase in their monthly food benefits, Oregon Department of Human Services officials said Tuesday. What is SNAP? SNAP is a federally funded program that offers supplemental nutrition assistance to low-income individuals and families. SNAP is the largest program in the domestic hunger safety net.
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Oregon State University’s Global Hemp Innovation Center has received a $1 million gift to explore hemp genomics, research that can grow understanding of how hemp may be used in health and nutrition products, textiles and construction materials. The gift to the OSU Foundation was provided by Oregon CBD, a hemp seed research and development company.
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Welcome to the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday segment. This week: building a digital defense to stay safe while surfing online. October marks National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the U.S., and over the next few weeks, we will be focusing on some back-to-basic topics to keep you safe on the internet. For years, you’ve been told
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