After battering Dominican Republic as a tropical storm (CNN) — The Bahamas and eastern Florida are bracing for hurricane conditions this weekend as Hurricane Isaias barrels through the Caribbean and into the southeastern US. The center of Isaias was moving over the central Bahamas Friday night. It will move near the northwestern part of the island nation
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Preliminary results from random door-to-door TRACE-COVID-19 sampling by Oregon State University last weekend suggest that 17% of the Hermiston community had the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 at the time.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Friday the creation of the Racial Justice Council. It is an advisory group to the governor, with subgroups focused on criminal justice reform and police accountability, health equity, economic opportunity, housing and homelessness, and environmental justice/natural resources. The council will also provide principles and recommendations that
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — CJ McCollum and Damian Lillard combined to score 11 of Portland’s 16 overtime points, giving the Trail Blazers a desperately needed 140-135 victory over Memphis. The victory moves Portland within 2 1/2 games of the Grizzlies for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. McCollum finished
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Pac-12 has set Sept. 26 as the start of its 10-game conference-only football schedule. The Pac-12 announced three weeks ago it would eliminate non-conference games for its 12 member schools. The new plan adds an additional cross-divisional game to each team’s slate and moves the conference championship game back two
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Governor Kate Brown on Friday announced four artists and one organization as winners of the 2020 Governor’s Arts Awards, including a Warm Springs artist and educator.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The grandeur of the shire horses. The intoxicating smell of elephant ears. The L.B. Day Amphitheater filled with cheering crowds. They are unmistakable markers of the Oregon State Fair experience, and ones that will welcome crowds back to the fairgrounds in 2021. Instead of going dark in 2020, the Oregon State
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Roscoe may be 12, but he has a spring in his step.
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Officials say people are responding positively.
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Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory has welcomed a female Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) to its ambassador animal program. The owl is the first new raptor to come to the center since 2016.
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State health officials late Friday warned people not to eat onions from Thomson International, Inc. of Bakersfield, Calif., after 76 people in 13 Oregon counties fell ill with matching strains of Salmonella bacteria.
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The Oregon Employment Department announced Friday it has found a way to pay benefits to thousands of Oregonians who are out of work due to COVID-19 while they wait for their claim to be reviewed, a program called “Benefits While You Wait.”
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The air flow pattern does not change much over the next two or three days, so it will take until Sunday before we get back to average.
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Gov. Kate Brown will call lawmakers back to the Capitol beginning Aug. 10 to try to fill a billion-dollar budget hole due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Brooks Park off Newport Avenue in Bend was hit with obscene graffiti Thursday morning, much to the chagrin of worried area residents.
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Three more residents of Mt. Bachelor Memory Care in Bend have died from COVID-19, bringing the total to six at a facility where 64 staff and residents have tested positive in an outbreak of the virus, facility and Deschutes County health officials said Friday.
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If current metrics hold, Crook County Schools’ kindergarten through third-graders will be back in the classrooms for in-person learning this fall, officials said Friday.
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A barn and some older farm equipment was destroyed in a fire north of Madras early Friday morning, Jefferson County Fire District No. 1 officials said.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Here’s the Deschutes County weekly road construction update for the week of August 2-8: Old Bend Redmond Highway/Tumalo Road Intersection Improvement (Tumalo Area) – Temporary traffic control measures will be installed this week. Road work for construction of the roundabout is anticipated to begin August 10. Closure Information – No lane closures
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nike has filed documents with the state of Oregon that show its recently announced layoffs will eliminate at least 500 jobs at the company’s world headquarters near Beaverton. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the company announced the downsizing July 22 after disclosing a rare money-losing quarter in June. But it has not yet
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