It’s been a decade since Waldorf School of Bend students and staff began a Valentine’s Day tradition of decorating downtown Bend with hundreds of hand-made ‘heart bombs,’ with messages that anyone can take to spread the love. Isabella Warren was on hand and spoke with the coordinator.
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Bend Mayor Melanie Kebler traveled to the state Capitol Tuesday to testify on behalf of Senate Bill 1530, which allocates funding for affordable housing, homelessness prevention and emergency shelter services, among other elements.
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This month, Bend Mayor Melanie Kebler answered your questions on a wide array of issues, including the status of a Mirror Pond fish passageway, building height restrictions, abandoned e-bikes, the new ‘no right on red’ signs at Neff and Purcell, potholes on city streets and her testimony this week in Salem. If you’d like send
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A group of northeast Bend neighbors of Greenwood Cemetery started an effort to preserve the adjacent, placid green space after receiving notice of a possible zone change, and the felling of a dozen trees that prompted a city stop-work order. But the property owner says no development is contemplated.
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This week, Rep. Emerson Levy, D-Bend, told the House Committee on Behavioral Health and Health Care that it’s time to create co-pay fairness, which means if an Oregonian has insurance and receives financial assistance from a pharmaceutical manufacturer, that payment has to count toward their deductible.
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There have been 15 fires in Bend-area homeless camps since the start of the year, the most recent destroying a motor home Saturday morning north of Juniper Ridge, officials confirmed Tuesday. The Redmond area, meanwhile, has had six such blazes.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Next Monday, crews will begin dismantling and cataloguing the stone blocks of the front façade of the historic AJ Tucker building, located at the corner of NW Greenwood Avenue and Harriman Street, making way for a Deschutes County Courthouse expansion after no one took the county up on a free offer
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — In a world of dating apps and reality TV shows, there’s a timeless story of long-lasting love to tell this Valentine’s week at Brookdale Bend, a senior living community. Glenn and Wanda Floyd of Bend have been married for 59 years. They first met at a mutual friend’s wedding in June
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It was a small mystery that prompted a large number of questions and jokes, online and off: a wrong-way car oddly double-parked in downtown Bend for much of the weekend that wasn’t towed away until Monday, after some vandals unfortunately marked it up.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A frying pan left on a stove sparked a kitchen fire at a home in Deschutes River Woods on Sunday evening, but the resident and his dogs evacuated safely and Bend Fire crews quickly knocked down the blaze. Bend Fire & Rescue responded to a home on Creek Circle shortly before
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A Bend woman is recovering at St. Charles Bend from critical injuries suffered in a head-on crash last month on Highway 97 near Chemult.
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Dozens of people gathered at the Bend Elks Lodge on Saturday as the national nonprofit organization Homes For Our Troops kicked off the building of a specially adapted home in Bend for Army Sergeant Christopher Chatwin, who was injured while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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With four people in Bend reported to have fentanyl overdoses in just six hours Tuesday — all saved by first responders’ use of Narcan — resources among the agencies involved are increasingly being spread thin, but stepping up efforts to combat the problem through greater awareness and preparedness.
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Three weeks after several residents urged Bend city councilors to call for an immediate cease-fire in the war in Gaza, Mayor Melanie Kebler has drafted a carefully worded letter to President Biden and Oregon lawmakers for colleagues to consider Wednesday night, calling for “urgent” efforts to reach a “negotiated settlement to the war.”
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — In the span of just six hours Tuesday, Bend fire medics and police officers responded to four fentanyl overdoses, helping all four survive by administering Narcan. This happened just a day before Deschutes County commissioners voted on party lines (with Phil Chang abstaining) to enact a 90 day countywide fentanyl state
Continue ReadingTwo welding students from Mountain View High School are finding their career paths through an internship at Max Manufacturing, a metal fabrication shop in northeast Bend. It’s part of a growing movement to get students trained in technical skills that will help fill an age gap in experienced workers.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — After receiving calls about possible gunshots being fired near Juniper Swim & Fitness early Wednesday morning, Bend Police are investigating the situation but say they didn’t find any injuries or damage to property. The shots were reportedly heard about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 400 block of NE Greeley Avenue, just
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The Bend City Council voted unanimously Wednesday night to award the purchase of two city-owned parcels of land to a partnership between Bend-Redmond Habitat for Humanity and Thistle & Nest for 26 affordable housing units designed to be a sustainable “eco-development.”
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Negotiators for Bend-La Pine Schools and Oregon School Employees Association Chapter 6 reached a conceptual agreement Wednesday evening on a new contract for about 900 classified employees in the school district, including those who transport students, run school offices, prepare and serve meals, clean and maintain facilities, support students in the classroom, and serve in other support roles.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — After more than two years of public process, the Bend City Council on Wednesday night unanimously adopted amendments to the Bend Comprehensive Plan to guide the master planning of the Stevens Road Tract in the southeast corner of the city. In 2021, the state Legislature passed a unique bill that allows
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