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Tuesday updates on wildfires, highway closures, evacuation notices
Several wind-fanned new and existing wildfires grew rapidly Monday night and Tuesday, prompting widespread evacuations and highway closures. Here’s a…
Continue ReadingSeveral wind-fanned new and existing wildfires grew rapidly Monday night and Tuesday, prompting widespread evacuations and highway closures. Here’s a…
Continue ReadingA Silver Lake man hunting in the Ochocos with friends was killed Monday night when a tree fell and crashed down onto his camp trailer, Crook County…
Continue ReadingGood Tuesday, Central Oregon! The last few weeks we have been seeing above-average temperatures, but, today will be a different story. A high of 73…
Continue ReadingBend resident Dave Ewing was heading home on state Highway 22 from the Valley on Monday night, like many holiday weekend travelers, when he started…
Continue ReadingFirefighters battled both flames and high winds late Monday night when a costly fire broke out at a southeast Bend auto body shop. As investigators…
Continue ReadingWind-fanned wildfires prompted a widespread Level 3 “Go Now” evacuation of the Santiam Canyon early Tuesday morning, from Mehama east to Idanha,…
Continue ReadingA new, wind-driven wildfire north of Chiloquin prompted more evacuations and still had U.S. Highway 97 closed Tuesday morning, having grown to more…
Continue ReadingAmid high winds and smoky skies, a brush fire reported late Monday afternoon in a neighborhood south of Sunriver prompted a brief consideration of…
Continue ReadingThe annual Oregon AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic and call to action went virtual this year. The event included a panel of…
Continue ReadingOregon’s Department of Environmental Quality has issued another air quality advisory through Tuesday afternoon for Central Oregon, the Portland area,…
Continue ReadingA Bank of America survey found that only 45% of Americans plan on hosting or attending barbecues Monday. The decrease is due to the COVID-19…
Continue ReadingAs many Central Oregonians spent the Labor Day holiday relaxing, hundreds of firefighters kept on working hard to contain or keep several wildfires…
Continue ReadingBend Pet Express held a free pet food assistance event at its Eastside location on Monday, thanks to a welcome…
Continue ReadingOn Labor Day, NewsChannel 21 spoke with some Central Oregon residents about a very unusual summer, and how they made the best of…
Continue ReadingAir Quality Alert for Bend, La Pine, Redmond, Sisters, and Sunriver is in place until Monday at…
Continue ReadingAn inmate at the Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario who tested positive for COVID-19 died Sunday at an area hospital, the sixth state…
Continue ReadingA fire started outside a police precinct on Portland’s north side resulted in about 15 arrests during protests Sunday night into Monday morning,…
Continue ReadingThe 3-week-old Lionshead Fire has grown to nearly 19,000 acres over the Labor Day weekend, prompting closure of the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness and…
Continue ReadingSome farmers are bracing for the potential impact to their livelihood after the National Weather Service issued a red flag warning for the region on…
Continue ReadingDue to the extreme predicted fire weather and red flag warnings in Sisters Country over the next few days, the Sisters-Camp Sherman and Cloverdale…
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