By Alex Jensen, KGW PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — A woman drowned amid heavy rain and flooding in southern Oregon. The 44-year-old was attempting to clear branches from a culvert under her driveway in Central Point, when the waterproof overalls she was wearing filled with water and flood waters pulled her through the culvert into a nearby creek,
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Doug Sieckmann had his dashcam on as he headed west on Highway 58 over Willamette Pass when he saw two tall trees topple across the road Sunday afternoon. They were two of many trees that fell across the region as heavy, wet snow – up to two feet in places –
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A Bend man was killed in an avalanche Thursday while skiing with a group at Mt. Bailey in southern Oregon, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office reported Friday. The family of expert skier Brian Thomas Roberts later shared a statement and photos with KTVZ News, asking the community for prayers in the wake of their ‘unimaginable loss.’
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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (KTVZ) — A Klamath Falls e-bike rider entered an intersection against a red light and was struck and killed by an SUV, Oregon State Police said Friday. At 9:42 a.m. on Wednesday, OSP responded to a vehicle vs. bicycle crash on Crater Lake Parkway (Highway 97 Business), at the intersection with Shasta
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A Madras woman who threatened another woman with a gun by text message fled police and ran over a pedestrian Tuesday night, Jefferson County Sheriff Jason Pollock said. She was arrested after she crashed her pickup and pointed a rifle at pursuing officers, prompting a tense standoff that a bystander helped to end.
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(Update: Adding more photos, Adding video, information from sheriff) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A seriously injured skier and his companion from Utah who were stranded on Central Oregon’s South Sister were rescued Tuesday in a joint effort by Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue and helicopter crews from AirLink and the Oregon Army National
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UPDATE: Adding video SILETZ, Ore. (KTVZ) — An extensive, over week-long search for a missing Oregon Coast toddler ended sadly Tuesday with a diver’s discovery of the 2-year-old’s body in the Siletz River. Here’s the full announcement from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, posted to Facebook on Tuesday afternoon: It is with heavy hearts that
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A final report on last month’s avalanche that killed a well-known Bend couple says that while skiers Terry and Renee Skjersaa likely triggered the slide, there were no obvious “red flags’ warning of rising danger in the Cascades. Many details leading up to the deadly backcountry avalanche are not known, because
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A Lake Oswego teen who crashed a snowmobile into a tree near Elk Lake on Saturday is in stable condition and recovering, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office told KTVZ News on Sunday.
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About 1,300 Pacific Power customers in SE Bend lost power for a time Friday morning, shortly after Central Electric Cooperative finished restoring power to about 8,000 homes, schools and businesses in east and southeast Bend, ending an outage that lasted several hours for many.
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A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew lowered a rescue swimmer to a car that crashed into the swirling waters of the McKenzie River Wednesday night. They lifted the injured driver, who was flown to the hospital, Lane County sheriff’s deputies said Thursday as they released dramatic video of the operation.
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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Two drivers were killed in a head-on collision of two pickup trucks early Monday morning on U.S. Highway 97 south of Klamath Falls, Oregon State Police reported Tuesday. OSP said troopers responded at 5:42 a.m. Monday to the two-vehicle crash near milepost 284. Their preliminary investigation found that Derek Ryan
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A Bend man was arraigned Monday on eight charges, including DUII, assault and reckless driving in a Friday night hit-and-run crash on SW Century Drive that injured two pedestrians in a crosswalk, one seriously.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A crash late Monday afternoon closed the northbound US Highway 97 offramp at Tumalo Road between Bend and Redmond. An ODOT TripCheck alert posted at 4:46 p.m. warned motorists of a delay at milepost 130, about five miles north of Bend. It advised drivers that ramps were affected and to “prepare
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PRINEVILLE (KTVZ) — Three people were seriously injured late Friday night in the collision of two off-road motorcycles at a southeast Prineville intersection, police said Monday. Around 11:20 p.m., officers responded to the reported crash at the intersection of SE Fifth and Fairview streets, Sgt. Jon Dragoon said. Arriving officers determined that two off-road motorcycles
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(Update: Added video) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A rock broke a buried Avion Water Co. pipeline near Knott Road in southern Bend Thursday afternoon, sending up to 1 million gallons of water spilling across the area, damaging two homes and leaving about 100 customers under a boil-water notice for a few days. Avion Water Co.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A cellphone’s automated crash notification and a witness report brought rescuers to the scene of a snowmobile crash into a tree off Century Drive on Thursday that seriously injured a Portland man and his 14-year-old daughter, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. Deschutes County 911 dispatchers were contacted around 10:15 a.m. Thursday
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A small natural gas explosion in the kitchen of the Bend Poker Room in northeast Bend, traced to a gas-fired pizza oven, caused little damage Thursday afternoon but sent one person to St. Charles Bend with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. Bend Fire & Rescue crews were dispatched around 4:50 p.m. to
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An arrest warrant has been issued for a Florida truck driver who failed to appear in court last week and faces criminally negligent homicide and other charges in a crash a year ago on icy Highway 97 that killed a La Pine woman and seriously injured her pregnant daughter, who lost her child as a result.
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Acting Jefferson County District Attorney Steven Leriche on Friday identified the man killed in Thursday evening’s officer-involved shooting along Highway 97 in Madras as Allen Dale Warner Jr., 26, and released limited initial details on what transpired.
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