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MountainStar Family Relief Nursery’s ‘Walk with a Child’ event spotlights efforts to help vulnerable children, families

April 30, 2024 11:27 pm Tracee Tuesday

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — MountainStar Family Relief Nursery says its mission is to prevent child abuse and neglect through free community support and therapeutic services. Families in the program deal with extreme poverty, housing instability, food insecurities, mental or physical illnesses, incarceration issues, domestic violence, and a history of family violence. A new fundraising event held Tuesday

US Postal Service seeking workers, holding events each Thursday in May at Bend Post Office

April 30, 2024 10:55 pm KTVZ News Partners

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — As May arrives, mail carriers, handlers, and clerks are still very much in demand at the Postal Service throughout Oregon. The USPS employs more than 635,000 people throughout the nation, and with nearly 63,000 military veterans on its rolls, it is also one of the largest employers of veterans in the

ODOT’s sixth, likely last blasting operation on Bend’s new Highway 97 route was a two-section shot

April 30, 2024 9:40 pm KTVZ News Partners

Connect Central Oregon used two drones and a camera on the ground to capture the two-section blast Tuesday night on Highway 97’s new Bend North Corridor route, which may be the last in a weekly series that lasted over a month.

‘Born in Bend – our home’: Crux has no plans to leave, despite putting its tasting room property up for sale

April 29, 2024 7:41 pm KTVZ News Partners

(Update: adding video, comment from managing director) Instead, it plans to lease SW Division site back; $5.5 million sale will ‘free resources to reinvest’ BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Crux Fermentation Project announced Monday that it’s selling the property that has served as the brewery’s iconic Bend tasting room since 2012 — but only with the

State grant to help fund long-awaited river access upgrades at Miller’s Landing Park in Bend

April 30, 2024 5:27 pm KTVZ

Access to the Deschutes River for kayakers and river floaters is about to get better in the Old Mill area. A grant will help fund the long-awaited upgrades at Miller’s Landing.

Live fire training planned today just west of Bend, north of Tumalo Creek for prescribed fire training program

April 30, 2024 8:33 am KTVZ News Partners

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Firefighters will be conducting a live fire training Tuesday a mile west of Bend, adjacent to Forest Service Road 4606 and north of Tumalo Creek as part of a training component of Central Oregon Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX). Ignitions are planned for around noon. There are no road or trail

Oregon PUC approves sale of small, troubled Sun Country Water west of Bend to Avion Water Company

April 30, 2024 3:35 pm KTVZ News Partners

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Public Utility Commission says it recently facilitated and approved the $100,000 sale of Sun Country Water’s assets and transfer of its service territory to Avion Water Company to resolve growing maintenance issues and service disruptions for customers. Sun Country Water, a public water utility with approximately 109 residential customers west

Oregon State Marine Board approves $300,000 grant to Bend Park & Rec District for Miller’s Landing boat launch

April 26, 2024 4:15 pm KTVZ News Partners

The Oregon State Marine Board held its quarterly hybrid meeting in Astoria and online last week and approved several statewide boating facility grants, including $300,000 for the Bend Park & Recreation District’s Miller’s Landing Park boat launch project.

Bend’s IHOP sign almost taken out in early-AM crash; minor injuries to driver, 80; restaurant set to close in June

April 29, 2024 3:39 pm Barney Lerten

An 80-year-old Bend man likely fell asleep at the wheel early Saturday morning when he drifted across Northeast Third Street and struck a large IHOP Restaurant sign. Police said he sustained minor injuries and got a ticket after the SUV caused major damage but did not totally topple the sign.

‘It’s worse than you could possibly imagine’: Oregon GOP lawmakers, candidates share thoughts on border visit

April 25, 2024 10:12 am KTVZ

Sixteen Oregon Republican state senators, representatives and candidates are touring the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona this week with the Border Security Alliance and meet with local officials to discuss issues related to human trafficking and the surge in shipments of deadly fentanyl.

We need to do more with less, new Oregon Health Authority director says during Central Oregon visit, tour

April 29, 2024 10:50 am Matthew Draxton

New Oregon Health Authority Director Dr. Sejal Hathi’s regional tour of Central Oregon health care organizations and facilities — her fifth around the state — begins Monday.

Bend man arrested on charges of ‘overtly sexual’ online contact, attempting to meet with deputy posing as underage girl

April 29, 2024 11:37 am Barney Lerten

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Bend man who allegedly engaged in “overtly sexual communications” online with someone he believed to be a minor female, but who actually was a Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy, was arrested Sunday night when he showed up at a store to meet her, deputies said. The sheriff’s office initiated an investigation

Bend fire crews stop blaze that burned homeless encampment, threatened businesses on NE Olney Avenue

April 29, 2024 1:25 am Barney Lerten

Several reports of a fire behind warehouses and businesses in northeast Bend Sunday night brought firefighters to the scene, and they stopped the blaze, which destroyed a homeless camp behind one building before it could spread inside, an official said.

Senator Merkley holds town hall at COCC to engage with the community on important topics

April 28, 2024 6:22 pm KTVZ

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Senator Jeff Merkley held two town halls, in Bend and Madras Sunday to hear from the communities on a variety of issues. The Bend town hall was held at Central Oregon Community College. People asked the senator questions when their ticket number was called. The public engaged in conversation with the senator on topics such

‘Armed and dangerous’ fugitive pinned in to prevent escape, arrested at Bend’s Cascade Village Shopping Center

April 26, 2024 6:53 pm Barney Lerten

An “armed and dangerous” fugitive from the Salem area, wanted on a nationwide warrant for robbery, was tracked Friday to the Bend area and found at the Cascade Village Shopping Center, where law enforcement vehicles were damaged as they pinned him in and prevented his escape.

This year’s Bend ‘Guns to Gardens’ firearm safe surrender event brings in 45 guns, which are made into garden tools

April 10, 2024 2:35 pm KTVZ

Central Oregonians turned in dozens of unwanted guns on Saturday, to be turned into garden tools. The second annual Guns to Gardens firearm safe surrender event took place at Antioch Church in Bend. This year, a total of 45 guns were collected.

‘Guns to Gardens’ firearm surrender event returns to Bend’s Antioch Church

April 27, 2024 12:48 am KTVZ - News Team

A “Guns to Gardens” firearm safe surrender event is set for Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon in the parking lot of Antioch Church at 566 NE Clay Avenue in Bend.

Mtn. View High School presents entertaining Disney musical ‘Beauty and the Beast’

April 26, 2024 11:20 pm Tyson Beauchemin

Get ready for a magical journey as Mountain View High School proudly presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast the Musical, a timeless tale of love and acceptance. We talked with some of the performers. Here’s more details on when the showings are scheduled and a link to tickets.

Voters to decide fate of Bend-La Pine Schools’ five-year levy to support stronger programs, avert staff cuts

April 26, 2024 11:55 am KTVZ

One of the items voters will face on the May 21 primary ballot soon to arrive in their mailboxes is Bend-La Pine Schools’ five-year local option levy that would allow the district to bridge a funding gap and dedicate resources to important programs and services.

Update: ODOT again shifts sixth Bend Highway 97 blasting operation – likely the last – to next Tuesday night

April 25, 2024 3:06 pm Barney Lerten

The blast scheduled for this weekend along U.S. Highway 97 for the Bend North Corridor project — originally moved back a week, to May 4 — has again been rescheduled, moving it up to next Tuesday night, April 30, ODOT said Friday.

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