A kayaker whose craft overturned Sunday afternoon in the Crooked River in Prineville held onto branches in the middle of the high-running river until firefighters helped her reach an island and Bend Fire & Rescue’s swift-water rescue team arrived and brought her to the shore.
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It was all about the kids – and their families – having fun Sunday afternoon at the El Día del Niño (Children’s Day) community fiesta put on by the Bend Church of the Nazarene on NE 27th Street.
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Hundreds of Central Oregonians gathered on Sunday to participate in the Walk to Defeat ALS. About 400 people signed up for the walk to raise funds for research and support for those with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, when the nervous system weakens muscles and their functions.
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Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality has fined a Bend gas station nearly $12,000, alleging it failed to install proper spill detection equipment for underground storage tanks and to conduct required testing and inspections. But the business disputed the claims, saying it’s been working with the agency and expects a reduction in the penalty.
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More than 300 people took a walk around Riverbend Park on a picture-perfect blue-sky Saturday morning – but it was not just any stroll through the park. They were on a mission – to raise funds and awareness, and to offer support for the close to 500 people living in Central Oregon with multiple sclerosis.
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The Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Policy Board is seeking public input on the draft 2023-2025 Unified Planning Work Program.
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A stubborn fire broke out Friday evening at a large clubhouse building at the Juniper Preserve (formerly Pronghorn) Resort between Bend and Redmond, bringing firefighting crews from both cities and Sunriver.
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A new Google mapping tool that includes Bend as a pilot location shows the percentage of the city that has tree cover, among other environmental insights. Just go here and type in the city’s name (or others) here: https://insights.sustainability.google/.
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Bend resident Elisa Anderson and Deschutes County 911 dispatcher Ashley Tyree received Bend Fire & Rescue’s LifeSaver Award Friday for their roles in the resuscitation of Elisa’s husband, Robert Anderson, when he went into cardiac arrest last November.
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A Bend woman has written a book about the 20-month, 18,000-mile bike journey she took with her husband from Alaska to Argentina. Liam Gibler talked with them Friday.
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After a series of meetings over several months, the joint City of Bend and Bend Park & Rec District’s Mirror Pond Fish Passage Advisory Committee on Friday recommended creating a “nature-like” fishway so fish in the lower Deschutes could swim around the Newport Dam, into Mirror Pond and the upper Deschutes River.
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Two of Bend’s roundabout sculptures will be repainted and repaired over the next several weeks and months, the group Art in Public Places said Friday.
Continue ReadingBEND, Ore. (KTZ) — Here is the city of Bend’s road and traffic report for the week of May 1-7. As the spring flowers begin to emerge, an indication of warmer weather to come, so too are the orange construction signs, indicating the beginning of a busy construction season. As you navigate your way through
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The Bend Chamber and Kôr Community Land Trust are excited to announce that the groundbreaking ceremony for the Poplar Community on Bend’s west side will take place at noon on Monday, May 1.
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Next Wednesday, May 3, the Bend Farmers Market kicks off its season at a new, earlier time of day while continuing its participation in the Double Up Food Bucks program.
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Central Oregon Community College is readying the starter’s air horn for two upcoming running events on the Bend campus: the four-mile or two-mile Jungle Run on May 11 and the two-mile Storm the Stairs on May 18.
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A bill is headed to the governor’s desk allowing all Oregon cities to use photo radar for speed and traffic enforcement. Currently, the technology is not used in this part of the state to catch speeding drivers.
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Kook’i, a bakery truck that sits in the Doghouse Brew Yard food truck lot, recently had thousands of dollars worth of supplies used to help run their business stolen out of their truck while parked at the Best Buy parking lot in Bend.
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Eight of 25 capital improvement projects have been completed to improve street safety in near bend’s schools, parks and in neighborhoods.
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Mountain High Coins & Jewelry in Bend is run by Colleen McGrew and Carolyn Graham, who are mother and daughter. They’ve been in business since the 1990s and it’s always been run by the family.
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