Two Redmond teens riding on the outside of a car driven by their older sister were seriously injured Thursday night when she suddenly stopped and they were thrown to the ground, police said.
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COVID-19 has claimed five more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 475, the Oregon Health Authority reported Friday, along with hopeful new signs that the rate of spread and case counts are slowing.
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Tumalo Road will be closed west of the Old Bend-Redmond Highway starting next Tuesday to complete Stage 2 of the Old Bend-Redmond Highway / Tumalo Road Intersection Improvement project.
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The Lionshead Fire on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation grew to nearly 10,000 acres amid hot, windy weather on Thursday, with more challenging conditions expected into the Labor Day weekend.
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In the continued effort to build a safe network to encourage biking and walking in Redmond, the City of Redmond Bicycle and the Redmond Pedestrian Advisory Committee is seeking volunteers to help conduct the annual bicycle and pedestrian counts.
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Gov. Kate Brown is holding a news conference at 11 a.m. to discuss Oregon’s efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19, the ongoing protests in Portland, and Labor Day weekend health and safety, including preventing human-caused wildfires. She will be joined by representatives from the Oregon Health Authority.
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This weekend was supposed to be the start of football season for the Ducks and Beavers.
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A Bend woman was charged with drunken driving and assault Thursday night after a two-vehicle crash on Highway 20 in northeast Bend that sent two men in the other car to the hospital, one with serious injuries, police said.
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Happy Friday, Central Oregon! It’s another hot day on tap for us, as Friday is not only expected to be the warmest day of our extended forecast, but there’s a chance we could hit triple-digit temperatures across the High Desert. If we do hit that mark, we could either tie or exceed our 100-degree record
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A man suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland last week after a caravan of Donald Trump backers rode through downtown was killed Thursday as investigators moved in to arrest him, the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday.
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New trails and snow-making guns are proposed improvements at Mt. Bachelor out for public review and comment from the Deschutes National Forest’s Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District.
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Redmond Committee for Art in Public Places has announced Homestead Bike Pump Track as the next location for a student art project — in this case, a mural contest The committee invites youth artists who reside within the Redmond School District boundary to submit concepts for a mural(s) in the
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The Redmond Senior Center has received a $23,000 grant from St. Charles Health System to help ensure the area’s most vulnerable seniors have basic needs crucial for their overall health and well-being, such as essential food services and access to local support and resources.
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Beaver Works Oregon, a program of Think Wild, invites people who live and play along the Deschutes River to get to know beavers as shapers of wildlife habitat and protectors of precious water in a dry land.
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The Prineville Police Department will be participating in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s High-Visibility Enforcement national event over the Labor Day weekend.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Andrew Ketsdever, an academic leader and aerospace engineer, has been promoted to dean of academic affairs at Oregon State University–Cascades. He will serve as chief academic officer for the campus with responsibility for expanding degree programs to meet industry needs, advancing research efforts and leading 110 faculty instructors and researchers. Ketsdever joined
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Gov. Kate Brown announced Thursday that Baker County has succeeded in reducing the spread of COVID-19 sufficiently enough to be removed from the County Watch List.
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Beginning next Tuesday and continuing into early November, the Deschutes, Fremont-Winema and Willamette national forests will provide an authorizing letter at no cost to allow for Matsutake collection, transport and sale, instead of a paid permit.
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As part of its COVID-19 Recovery & Resilience efforts, United Way of Central Oregon is directing $100,000 to help alleviate the pressure felt by many families because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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If the COVID-19 numbers remain favorable, Crook County’s older students could be back in school for in-class learning a week after their younger counterparts, the school board decided Thursday.
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