With many illegal fireworks taking flight or sending loud booms across Central Oregon neighborhoods over the past weekend, some enjoyed the show they have to offer — but others, not so much.
Continue Reading
The Trump administration on Monday formally authorized exports from a proposed Coos Bay, Oregon natural gas terminal, the first on the U.S. West Coast.
Continue Reading
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon DMV said it completed a multi-year project to replace its computer systems on Monday, providing new online services, including the ability to apply for Real ID-compliant driver’s licenses and ID cards. The replacement is part of the broader DMV Service Transformation Program – a 10-year, $90 million investment in the
Continue Reading
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — This summer, Deschutes County’s Department of Solid Waste is hosting special one-day collection events in La Pine, Redmond and Sisters where residents can drop off household hazardous waste for free. “This is a great chance for people to get rid of their household hazardous waste, which can be difficult to dispose
Continue Reading
After closing for nearly four months to help slow the spread of COVID-19, the Oregon Zoo plans to reopen this week, welcoming back visitors for the first time since mid-March.
Continue Reading
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Here is the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Region 4 weekly construction update for the week of July 6. The Oregon Department of Transportation is committed to providing a safe, efficient transportation system. ODOT invests in Oregon’s future through roadway improvement projects. The following projects are located in ODOT’s Region 4 encompassing Central Oregon from The
Continue Reading
A weak low pressure center off the Washington coast may send a cloud or two in our direction today, but it will not spoil a nice, sunny day.
Continue Reading
A Black Lives Matter protest took place in Prineville on Sunday, this time calling for the resignation or dismissal of Police Chief Dale Cummins over a recent social media posting that they claim endangered protester organizers. Cummins posted again to Facebook on Saturday, encouraging supporters and anyone to share their views by writing to city
Continue Reading
The Sisters Farmers Market is among a growing number around Oregon that are now offering online ordering and curbside pickup.
Continue Reading
Southwest Bend residents used, water, extinguishers and rakes to tackle a small brushfire off Brookswood Boulevard Sunday morning before police and firefighters arrived on the scene.
Continue Reading
A fire burned intensely near Meadow Lakes Golf Course Saturday night, damaging a home, outbuilding and power pole, at a time when the city’s Fourth of July fireworks display was underway.
Continue Reading
A wind-fanned brush fire off Highway 20 east of Bend late Sunday afternoon, stopped at about two acres by firefighters from several agencies, was traced by investigators to improperly discarded cigarette butts, officials said.
Continue Reading
Seven men were arrested after police say they taunted a Black family by yelling racial slurs and using Nazi salutes during a Fourth of July incident in Lincoln City.
Continue Reading
Good Samaritans, assisted by police and fire crews, rescued a Bend man who tried to swim across the Deschutes River near the Bill Healy Bridge on Sunday afternoon, but apparently became tired and went under the surface, police said.
Continue Reading
Happy Monday, Central Oregon! Hope you had a safe and happy holiday weekend. We are expecting to be mostly clear on the High Desert for the next seven days at least, with the only exception coming this evening, when a few more clouds will roll into the region. Winds will stay breezy, mainly between 7
Continue Reading
A 14-year-old Bend High School freshman badly injured in an ATV rollover crash on the Fourth of July was on life support at St. Charles Bend Monday as his grief-stricken family arranges for his organs to be donated to those in need.
Continue Reading
A new wildfire broke out and quickly put up a billowing smoke column Sunday afternoon near Paulina Lake Road in the La Pine area, burning nearly 50 acres before crews in an intense air and ground attack got a line around it.
Continue Reading
COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 215, along with 301 new cases that push the total past 10,000, the Oregon Health Authority reported Sunday.
Continue Reading
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police say more than a dozen people were arrested early Sunday after throwing fireworks and mortars as they clashed with police, several of whom were injured during the second straight night of rioting. Police said in a news release that they used tear gas and crowd control munitions to stymie
Continue Reading
The leader of a small summer camp at Bend Park & Recreation District’s Juniper Swim and Fitness Center tested positive for COVID-19 late last month, leading to self-quarantine for seven young participants, an official said.
Continue Reading