A squirrel at the downtown Bend Pacific Power substation caused a large power outage that hit much of Bend on Thursday morning, affecting more than 18,000 customers, some for several hours, while knocking out traffic lights and pausing or shifting much of business and daily life.
Continue ReadingMIDDLETON, Idaho (AP) — Authorities briefly ordered evacuations for most of the town of Middleton, Idaho, after they said a gas pipeline exploded at nearby rural intersection late Thursday morning. The explosion happened when a worker using an excavator ruptured a 22-inch (56-centimeter) natural gas pipeline near the town of about 10,600 people, said Chief
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A La Pine man reported missing on Sunday, prompting a search and request for the public’s assistance, was found Monday morning and taken by ambulance to St. Charles Bend for evaluation, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said.
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A $27.6 million claim for recovery of damages was filed Friday in the Douglas County Circuit Court against the Winchester Water Control District and associated contractors for the loss of at least 550,000 juvenile Pacific lamprey during the district’s recent repairs to Winchester Dam.
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Gov. Tina Kotek on Friday ordered flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff immediately, in honor and remembrance of Air Force Airman Trinity Reinhart, a Eugene native who was killed in a Colorado Humvee crash last month.
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A Boise man was killed a week ago in an early-morning single-vehicle crash when his car left U.S. Highway 20 near Black Butte Ranch and crashed into a tree, Oregon State Police said Friday.
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A nearly year-long investigation of the death of a 76-year-old Bend man after an incident at a northwest Bend roundabout that police had called a likely hit-and-run crash led to Thursday’s arrest of his son-in-law on misdemeanor DUII and other charges. But authorities now say there’s no evidence a crash occurred.
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SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. investigators have confirmed that a mechanical issue caused the seaplane crash that killed 10 people off an island in Washington state last year. The National Transportation Safety Board, which investigated the Sept. 4, 2022, crash, said Thursday that a single component of a critical flight control system failed, causing an unrecoverable,
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Rep. Emerson Levy, D-Bend, told Bend city councilors Wednesday evening she will be proposing legislation in next year’s “short session” of the Oregon Legislature to toughen, clarify and help better enforce the laws regarding young people and e-bikes, a growing issue for many in the community.
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By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon officials have identified the victims who lost their lives after a small plane precipitously dropped out of the sky and crashed through the roof of a home on Tuesday. Police in Newberg, a small city about 25 miles southwest of Portland, said 20-year-old
Continue Reading NEWBERG, Ore. (KTVZ) — Two people on a small plane were killed and a third seriously injured Tuesday evening when it crashed through the roof of a home in Newberg, but the home’s occupants evacuated and were unhurt, officials said. Here’s the news release from Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue: Shortly before 7 p.m., multiple
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An excavation crew working in a new La Pine subdivision struck a two-inch natural gas line late Tuesday afternoon, causing a leak that prompted warnings to dozens of nearby residents to shelter in place and avoid any outdoor open flames until repairs were complete about an hour later.
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A two-vehicle crash involving a semi-truck and car on U.S. Highway 20 by Suttle Lake, west of Sisters, Saturday afternoon sent two people to the hospital, one by Life Flight helicopter, and closed the highway for a time, initial reports indicated.
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“I was exhausted from yelling and screaming,” Bend resident Lily Dean recollected recently. “I was screaming all the time — ‘Help! Help!’ — and I was thinking, it’s like a dream, like I don’t know if my voice is coming out of my mouth or not.”
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A semi-truck struck a fire hydrant in northern Bend Thursday morning, and that sent water flooding into the nearby warehouse of Energy Conservation Insulation.
Continue ReadingRIALTO BEACH, Wash. (AP) — Teams are searching for a 26-year-old woman who was swept into the ocean Monday from a popular beach on the Washington coast, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard said it received a call at 10:50 a.m. about a woman who was reportedly taken by ocean currents while
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A 23-year-old La Pine man was killed and the driver and a second passenger were injured in a single-vehicle rollover crash late Saturday night on a southeast Bend street, police said Sunday. Speed and alcohol were apparent factors in the crash, they said, asking to hear from any witnesses.
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Thick fog and speed were factors in a fiery 17-car pileup on Interstate 84 in northeast Oregon Thursday afternoon that seriously injured one motorist and closed the freeway for about eight hours, Oregon State Police said Friday.
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Early-season snowfall can catch many people off-guard in the woods, as it did a hiker lost on the Tam McArthur Trail west of Bend, who sought assistance by Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue.
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An elderly man who was struck by a vehicle in an unmarked crosswalk in northwest Bend has died of his injuries, police said Friday.
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