A Crook County judge has awarded a judgement of more than $21.5 million to a Bend man left paralyzed below the waist when he was shot three times in the back at a Prineville bar on New Year’s Eve 2017.
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The State Marine Board has approved rules to let people with disabilities operate motor boats at slow, no-wake speeds on North and South Twin Lakes, The board also agreed to open rule-making for a slow, no-wake zone on Prineville Reservoir, as requested by the Crook County Sheriff’s Office and state park officials.
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The city of Bend has approved a weather emergency declaration, effective Tuesday, Oct. 20.
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The currently serving Naval member wants to help others through her poetry.
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Police want the district attorney to charge seven people at Oct. 3 incident with “riot.” We explain the legal definition and potential penalties.
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Despite pandemic-related issues, commercial real estate projects remain strong in Central Oregon, a report out Wednesday indicates.
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With colder temperatures and precipitation in the forecast, firefighters will begin pile burning on the Ochoco National Forest and Crooked River National Grassland.
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Central Oregon has seen a major increase in new voters. In fact, according to the Deschutes County Clerk’s Office, the county went from about 101,000 registered voters in 2016 to over 150,000 last week, a 50 percent jump in four years.
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The Governor’s Healthy Schools Reopening Council met Wednesday to review the steps Oregon will need to take to return more students to in-person instruction in schools.
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The Oregon Department of Administrative Services and local governments can do more to ensure that expenditures under the CARES Act meet federal standards, according to a management letter issued Wednesday by Secretary of State Bev Clarno.
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A man who started a wildfire west of Eugene near Mapleton in August will serve 10 years in prison.
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The USDA Forest Service will be accepting applications for more than 1,000 seasonal spring and summer jobs in Oregon and Washington from Oct. 30 – Nov. 9.
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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., made a case on the Senate floor Wednesday to renew the added $600 in weekly jobless benefits that expired earlier this year, but the move was blocked by Senate Republicans.
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Crook County Schools Superintendent Dr. Sara Johnson sent a letter Wednesday to Colt Gill, director of the Oregon Department of Education, asking for a waiver from last week’s COVID-19 metrics.
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The Wednesday night sky will be partly cloudy, with lows in the teens and 20s
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COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 635, along with 331 new cases, the Oregon Health Authority reported Wednesday.
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With community access and student support as their paired objectives, two recently awarded grants from The Roundhouse Foundation to Central Oregon Community College, totaling more than $26,000, will help cover non-tuition program costs for many career and technical students, as well as invest dollars in the technology infrastructure of the college’s Madras campus.
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Bend-Redmond Habitat for Humanity is offering a safe, drive-thru alternative to trick-or-treating on Saturday, Oct. 31 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. in the ReStore parking lot, 224 NE Thurston Ave.
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It may look like a robot from a Star Wars movie, but those aren’t little droids that just began roaming around Oregon State University’s Corvallis campus.
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