REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Deschutes County Fair & Rodeo is thrilled to announce the return of our spectacular pre-fair drone show in the Old Mill District, now with even more excitement! This year, the show will feature 33% more drones, brighter displays, and breathtaking 3D effects. Join us in the Old Mill District, or
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One part of the latest change on the southbound Bend Parkway/Highway 97 has led to some confusion and a new backup where traffic merges with Third Street/Highway 20. Instead, ODOT says drivers on Third wanting to get on the southbound parkway now have to turn east onto the new Robal Lane onramp.
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Deschutes County commissioners wrestled and split once again Monday afternoon, but in the end decided 2-1 to move ahead with efforts to create a managed homeless camp on county-owned land along Highway 126 on Redmond’s east side, to get dozens of people off a parcel they’ve been trying to swap with the state for nearly 20 years.
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A group opposed to TC Energy’s long-debated, now-approved natural gas pipeline expansion through Central Oregon continued to press their case Monday, joined by a Bend city councilor. But the company says the project got underway earlier this month.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Bend Police Department will host its National Night Out at Bear Creek Elementary School from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6, part of a nationwide annual event to promote community ties with law enforcement. The event was originally slated to take place at Bend High, but that
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A nonprofit and its many volunteer helpers picked up trash at several locations along the Deschutes River on Saturday, collecting more trash than ever before in nearly three decades of hard work.
Continue ReadingOur Jillian Fortner got to check out Balloons Over Bend go up in the CAVU balloon with experienced balloonist Darren Kling and learned a lot about just how they fly high! Kling has been the balloon director at the event for the past 15 years.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Friendly Driver Course is a collaborative effort funded by the Oregon Department of Transportation and administered by Commute Options with regional support from Safe Lane Transportation Coalition and Street Trust. The Oregon Friendly Driver Course continues to make significant strides in enhancing road safety across the state through education.
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On Friday evening, southbound traffic on U.S. Highway 97 on the north side of Bend will be permanently shifted to the newly built southbound Bend Parkway lanes, and the southbound U.S. 97 onramp at Robal Lane will open, ODOT said.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) —A Deschutes County sex offender with a prior felony conviction for encouraging child sex abuse was sentenced to a 20-year federal prison Thursday after he requested a sexually explicit image online from an individual he thought was a 14-year-old girl. Roger Clint Lee Vanwormer, 30, was sentenced to 20 years in federal
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Two Bend residents face first-degree arson and other charges, one accused of smashing an ex-roommate’s car window with a baseball bat while she was sleeping inside, pouring a flammable liquid on it and setting it ablaze, police said Thursday.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A new street mural by Bend artist Evan Namkung now greets visitors to the Old Mill District from a unique perspective. Located on the steps between Francesca’s and Ben & Jerry’s in the district, just behind Regal Cinemas, you can see the mural when looking back at the stairway from below,
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The new Jolly app is launching right here in Central Oregon. It aims to match its users with restaurants not just based on food – but on the experiences you want to have while dining out. Simply select the kind of experience you want, and the atmosphere you’re looking for, and the app generates a
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Firefighters quickly put out a small brush fire along the Deschutes River Trail downstream from Bend’s First Street Rapids Wednesday afternoon. Officials said it was considered human-caused, but no specific cause was found. A park user told NewsChannel 21 it happened in an area where some homeless campers had previously been given 24 hours notice to leave.
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The city of Bend recently shared numbers on the city’s trends in housing production, a presentation on the number of new housing units created and of what type for each year, dating back 20 years.
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A gunman robbing a northeast Bend marijuana dispensary Tuesday afternoon struck an employee in the face and tried to fire two shots at her, but the handgun malfunctioned, police said. He managed to walk out the door with a bag of marijuana before other workers grabbed him and put him in a headlock until officers arrived.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Bend man who was living at a licensed day care facility at the time of his arrest in late May pleaded not guilty Monday to 20 first- and second-degree felony counts of encouraging child sexual abuse and one misdemeanor count of encouraging the sexual assault of an animal. Deschutes County
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Unattended campfires at homeless camps have kept firefighters busy this fire season. In just one day, Bend firefighters responded to and put out two such fires. Last week, a La Pine homeless man was arrested for leaving a burn pit unattended.
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July is national Sarcoma and Bone Cancer Awareness Month, and a Bend woman who’s a sarcoma patient talked with us about her experience and raising awareness about the rare disease, while also finding a tasty way to raise funds to help fight it.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – While wildland firefighters work to stop new and older blazes in rural areas that have grown to hundreds or thousands of acres, Bend Fire & Rescue moved fast Monday afternoon to stop two smoldering fires at small sizes on the west and east sides of town. Firefighters responded just before 4
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