BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The annual Lava Island Fish Rescue will kick off next Friday, October 18, and volunteers are urgently needed to assist in this important effort to save stranded fish, but organizers say ongoing Deschutes River restoration efforts may eliminate the need to do so within the next few years. As Central Oregon’s
Continue ReadingAP Airlines Writer Boeing plans to lay off about 10% of its workers in the coming months, about 17,000 people, as it continues to lose money and tries to deal with a strike that is crippling production of the company’s best-selling airline planes. New CEO Kelly Ortberg told staff in a memo Friday that the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Residents in states hit by Hurricane Helene who had coverage through the federal flood insurance program but let it lapse before the storm hit may be able to renew it and still be covered from the impact. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said late Thursday that certain policyholders in seven
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Prineville District BLM managers reminded the public Friday that Teaters Road outside of Prineville remains open for public access, the result of a legal dispute a few years ago that landed in federal court. “Maintaining legal, public access to public lands is important to the BLM,” said Amanda Roberts, BLM Prineville
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Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, has added the state’s largest natural gas utility to its $51.5 billion climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies over their role in the region’s deadly 2021 heat- dome event. The lawsuit, filed last year, accuses the companies’ carbon emissions of being a cause
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, has added the state’s largest natural gas utility to its $51.5 billion climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies over their role in the region’s deadly 2021 heat- dome event. The lawsuit, filed last year, accuses the companies’ carbon emissions of being a cause
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California state Senate has passed a bill aimed at preventing gas prices from spiking at the pump. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is backing the proposal. He called lawmakers into a special session to consider it. The bill was approved Friday by the Senate and would give
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division said Friday it is investigating the unlawful take and waste of a cow elk in the Ochoco Wildlife Management Unit and is asking for the public’s assistance to identify whoever is responsible. On Wednesday, OSP troopers from Prineville responded to a report of
Continue ReadingBURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A woman from China has pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak. A Border Patrol agent’s affidavit states that Wan Yee Ng was arrested on the morning of June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan as she
Continue ReadingMOAB, Utah (AP) — A hiker has died in a fall on a popular trail at Arches National Park in Utah. Park officials say the 68-year-old man from Paramus, New Jersey, fell Tuesday morning. Resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful. The fall happened near an overlook on Devils Garden Trail. That’s a popular trail in the park
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — A Massachusetts pharmacist has been sentenced in Michigan to 7 1/2 to 15 years in prison for his role in a 2012 national meningitis outbreak that killed dozens of people. Neither Glenn Chin nor relatives of the Michigan victims made statements at his sentencing Friday in Howell, northwest of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. humanitarian officials say aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months and warn that critical lifelines in the territory’s north have been cut off. A U.N. spokesman delivered the grim news Friday, saying the main crossings into the north have been closed and no food or
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN Español) — El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, informó en su cuenta de la red X que suspendió este viernes su agenda pública por recomendación médica, a causa de “un fuerte cuadro gripal y respiratorio”. Petro tenía previsto participar en un acto de reconocimiento de responsabilidad internacional del Estado por las violaciones
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN Español) — El Ministerio de Trabajo de Perú exhortó este viernes a los empleadores a adoptar “medidas flexibles” con los trabajadores por las dificultades causadas por el paro de transportistas en Perú que inició este jueves. El paro también obligó a que este viernes se realizaran clases virtuales en Lima y Callao,
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes, Holmes Lybrand and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Washington (CNN) — After two attempted assassinations and an ongoing threat from Iran, Donald Trump’s campaign has ramped up requests for security, including transport by military aircraft and additional security measures on the ground at the former president’s campaign stops, three sources familiar with the discussions
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — An apparent road rage shooting during rush hour traffic in Los Angeles has killed one person and injured another. The shooting, which was reported Thursday just after 4 p.m., closed down the northbound lanes of the Interstate 5 freeway running through northeast Los Angeles for nearly eight hours. The California Highway
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — En el debate presidencial del mes pasado, Donald Trump afirmó que bandas de migrantes violentos estaban “tomando el control” de Aurora, Colorado, amplificando y exagerando un rumor ya cuestionado que sus seguidores habían difundido por internet en los días previos a su enfrentamiento televisado a nivel nacional con Kamala Harris. Ahora,
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The Little Lava along with other fires in the Bachelor Complex are continuing to produce a good deal of smoke. The flow of air is bringing that smoke to the region, and our air quality has suffered a hit today. The Air Quality Alert has been extended past the weekend. The other fire that is
Continue ReadingSANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A founding member of the experimental rock band Mr. Bungle has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of his girlfriend after prosecutors in California found an audio file the victim recorded on her phone as she fought for her life. A jury in Santa Cruz deliberated for
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer U.S. women’s water polo star Maddie Musselman Woepse is mourning the loss of her husband, Pat, who died from a rare form of lung cancer. He died Thursday night at 31 years old. Pat Woepse was diagnosed with NUT carcinoma in September 2023. Woepse, a former water polo player himself, set a
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