MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A pickup driver left southbound Highway 97 at the south end of Madras and knocked down a power pole early Thursday morning, leaving lines across the road. A detour was in place for several hours while cleanup occurred and a repair crew worked to replace the pole. The driver, a 71-year-old
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A Smith Rock climber was bitten, apparently by a rattlesnake, at the state park Friday afternoon, prompting a quick rescue effort and flight to St. Charles Bend for anti-venom treatment, a Redmond Fire official said.
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(Update: OSP confirms driver was alone in vehicle) PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) – A driver was critically injured in a single-vehicle rollover crash that closed U.S. Highway 26 about 14 miles east of Prineville for several hours Tuesday, authorities said. The crash and highway closure was reported shortly before noon at milepost 33 and the road
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – An apparent hit-and-run crash broke a utility pole and brought down lines along O.B. Riley Road Tuesday morning, leaving another pole leaning over the roadway and closing the road for hours while cleanup and repairs got underway. Bend Police Lt. Adam Juhnke said the crash was reported around 5 a.m. and
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CROOKED RIVER RANCH, Ore. (KTVZ) – An elderly Crooked River Ranch resident fell on a trail and tumbled nearly 50 feet down an embankment while hiking with his daughter at Steelhead Falls Sunday afternoon, suffering life-threatening injuries and prompting a rescue effort, officials said. The man was hiking a very familiar trail with his adult
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A 32-year-old Beaverton man got lost on a solo hike to the summit of South Sister last weekend as fog and bad weather moved in, prompting a challenging 26-hour rescue effort involving both Deschutes and Lane County searchers and two helicopters that could not land due to the worsening weather. Instead,
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A squirrel chewing through a fiber optic line cut off phone and internet service Tuesday at five public schools in La Pine and Sunriver, but no other homes or businesses in the area, a TDS representative said. School district officials said the schools kept operating on normal schedules, and service was restored later in the day.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – An SUV crashed into the Bend offices of Central Oregon Veterans Outreach along South Highway 97 Friday morning, but no one was in the area that was struck and no injuries were reported, officials said. The crash into a front window was reported shortly before 9 a.m. and prompted the city
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More than 2,500 Pacific Power customers lost power for hours on Bend’s Westside Sunday afternoon. Repair crews restored service to some of those affected within two hours as they investigated the cause and to the rest by evening.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities on Friday identified the three victims of a small plane crash near Portland, releasing the names of the two people on board and the resident on the ground who were killed. The victims were pilot Michael Busher, 73, of Beavercreek; flight instructor Jacqueline Whitford, 79, of Glendale, Arizona; and Fairview
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A weather pattern bringing an easterly flow of winds is forecast over much of the fire-stricken Pacific Northwest this weekend. With warming temperatures and dropping humidity, conditions are primed for growth on existing wildfires fires and the potential for new starts, the U.S. Forest Service warned Thursday. Here’s the rest of
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Wilsonville man who reached for an unknown object left Cascade Avenue in downtown Sisters and hit two parked vehicles before his SUV flipped onto its side Tuesday afternoon, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies were dispatched around 1 p.m. to the crash on East Cascade Avenue between South Fire and
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FAIRVIEW, Ore. (AP) — A small plane that crashed into a row of townhomes, killing three people just east of Portland, had reported “controllability” issues before going down, federal authorities said Tuesday. The pilot reported those issues after taking off from the Troutdale Airport around 10:25 a.m. Saturday for a maintenance test flight, National Transportation
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The pilot of a plane that flipped and crashed during an emergency landing in a field near Bend Airport last Friday, escaping with minor injuries, got the plane turned right-side-up, disassembled and trucked back home. We talked Monday with a resident whose family owns the field where it happened.
Continue Reading PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Three people were dead after a small plane crashed into a row of townhouses Saturday morning in a neighborhood east of Portland, setting the homes ablaze, authorities told KATU-TV. Officials earlier in the day had said the plane was carrying two people and that at least one resident had been unaccounted
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TROUTDALE, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — A small plane crashed into a residential area near the Troutdale Airport Saturday morning, striking a power pole and then hitting a row of townhomes, setting multiple units ablaze, KGW reported. The twin-engine Cessna 421C crashed at around 10:30 a.m. in Fairview, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Video shot by
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A cyclist was seriously injured in northwest Bend Friday morning when struck by a driver making a left turn off Skyliners Road onto Lemhi Pass Drive, police said.
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A small-plane pilot from Washington state escaped serious injury Friday afternoon when he ran out of fuel on approach to the Bend Airport and tried to make an emergency landing in a field, but the landing gear caught a barbed-wire fence, flipping the plane upside-down.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Mt. Bachelor officials confirmed Thursday that a male guest died a week ago at the resort’s mountain bike park, after the crash victim’s family shared information with a private Facebook group. Here’s the statement provided by Lauren Burke, director of marking and communications, when NewsChannel 21 inquired about the reported death
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SUNRIVER, Ore. (KTVZ) – A pilot, his passenger and dog escaped injuries Thursday when their small jet on a flight from Hillsboro landed at Sunriver Airport without its landing gear down and skidded to a stop on the runway, police said. Sunriver police officers and firefighters responded shortly after 12:30 p.m. to the reported aircraft
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