PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The latest Smoke Trends report from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality underscores the continuation of the trend of more summertime smoke due to wildfires, with Bend and Central Oregon one of the worst-hit regions. The report includes the addition of Air Quality Index, or AQI, data from the 2023 wildfire season,
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(Update: Adding video) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Bend Home Depot store may be busier than usual this Saturday, when hundreds of volunteers gather to build beds for children who don’t have their own. Home Depot is donating their parking lot, plus $12,000 in donated materials to build the beds. Albertson’s is providing lunches with
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Hovering helicopters and firefighters descending by rope are in view west of Bend this week as an annual national recertification event for the U.S. Forest Service Helicopter Rappel Program is underway on the Deschutes National Forest beside Forest Service Road 41.
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“In 2009, I went snowboarding with some friends at night, and it was after a big snowstorm, so there was powder in the day, but it froze — it melted and froze,” Sisters resident Erik Himbert recalled. “I just was blowing off steam, and for some reason just decided to go for a jump — and I hit it with a lot of speed.”
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How about a ‘Quarter-Hounder with Cheese’? No not for you – for your dog, at the new ‘Hungry Hound;’ a food cart for dogs at the On Tap lot in northeast Bend. They plan a ‘WoofFest’ celebration on Saturday.
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Mt. Bachelor announced Wednesday that effective immediately, its day care service will be open year-round, catering to both employees and visitors to the resort and the Cascade Lakes area.
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WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Officials with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and the City of Bend held a ceremonial signing Thursday of their historic Memorandum of Understanding at Tribal Council Chambers in Warm Springs. The MOU is the first of its kind between the Tribes and a city in Central Oregon, and establishes
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Bend-Redmond Habitat for Humanity announced Thursday that it has received its largest gift ever from a single donor. The donation of $521,000, from the estate of Denise Sullivan, comes as Bend-Redmond Habitat is planning to build over 100 sustainable, affordable homes in the next five years.
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Central Oregon Community College announced that students Anthony Alegria, Kris Kent and Jordan Taylor have been selected to represent the school on the Oregon Community College Association’s 2024 All-Oregon Academic Team.
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Wednesday evening marked Bend for Ukraine’s inaugural mobile resources market event, held in the Lewis and Clark Room at 1300 Wall Street downtown.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Environmental Center is thrilled to host their family-friendly Earth Day Fair and Parade on Saturday, April 20th, from 11:30 am to 3 pm. This outdoor event features and celebrates our community through music and dance performances, local food vendors, businesses and nonprofits from across the region, electric car/bike demonstrations, an
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Beginning Monday, the Deschutes National Forest road crew plans to conduct maintenance on the Phil’s Trailhead parking lot. Maintenance activities will include adding additional rock material and fixing potholes. Starting Monday and continuing throughout the maintenance work, the Phil’s Trailhead parking lot will be closed to all traffic, including vehicles, bicycles
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A more than month-long animal neglect investigation at a ranch east of Bend led to the seizure of 15 surrendered horses and felony and misdemeanor animal neglect charges against the owner, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said Wednesday. The recovering animals are being cared for at the sheriff’s office Rescue Ranch.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — To enhance emergency preparedness and ensure swift responses to crises, the Emergency Volunteer Air Corps (EVAC) has teamed up with 30×30 Fundraising, a nonprofit organization committed to supporting first responders and communities during natural disasters and crises. Before June 8th, together, they are fundraising to purchase food to make flight deliveries
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The community of ukulele players call themselves B.U.G., which stands for ‘Bend Ukulele Group.’
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“That’s the bottom line: It’s not safe on our single-lane road, and a lot of the neighbors oppose it.” said Toby Bayard, an upset neighbor of Lava Terrace Cellars, which grows grapes for wins on about five acres off Bowery Lane but hopes to open a small “boutique winery,” if Deschutes County commissioners say yes.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — On Saturday, state Representatives Emerson Levy and Jason Kropf, D-Bend, will host a joint legislative town hall, sharing information from the 2024 session, which came to a close in March, and looking ahead to future work. The meeting will be held from 2:30 to 3:30 pm in the Brooks Room of
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The High Desert Museum will receive $500,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, one of 10 in the nation selected for funding for the exceedingly competitive Public Humanities Projects: Exhibition category, the agency announced Tuesday.
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On Thursday, northbound traffic on U.S. Highway 97 at Bend’s north end will be temporarily moved to the newly built parkway on-ramp at Cooley Road, ODOT announced.
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First responders rolled up their sleeves Monday to donate blood for what’s become their quarterly Battle of the Badges event. Held this time At the Pilot Butte Fire Station, firefighters and police, along with others offering to give, donated blood to the American Red Cross.
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