Bend Archives

It’s time to speak your MIND: USC’s ice bucket challenge makes waves in Central Oregon

April 25, 2025 12:18 am Dylan Anderman

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — If you’ve opened social media recently, you’ve likely seen it — hundreds, even thousands of people dumping ice water over…

Key precision: St. Charles spinal surgeons are first in Oregon to use state-of-the-art 3D navigation system

April 24, 2025 5:58 pm Barney Lerten

(Update: adding video) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — When a piece of hardware – like a screw – needs to be inserted into a patient’s spine, it’s…

‘Leash your pooches!’: Dog attacks on the rise in Central Oregon; father of young bite victim seeks tougher leash laws

April 24, 2025 11:51 am Jillian Fortner

(Update: adding video, comments from Deschutes County Health Services and Bend father) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – According to Deschutes County Health…

450-acre prescribed burn puts up tall smoke west of Bend; part of trail and road to be closed for several days

April 23, 2025 6:18 pm Barney Lerten

Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District firefighters conducted up to 450 acres of prescribed burning Thursday about three miles west of Bend, near Forest…

Dylan Anderman promoted to Sports Director at KTVZ News

April 24, 2025 3:44 pm Gregory Deffenbaugh

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – KTVZ News is proud to announce the promotion of Dylan Anderman to Sports Director. A Central Oregon native and lifelong…

‘A very big concern’: Second neighborhood SE of Bend pushes back on another Pacific Power transmission line route

April 23, 2025 11:20 am Jillian Fortner

Residents in the Somerset neighborhood southeast of Bend are voicing their concerns Wednesday to Pacific Power about the proposed installation of a…

Mosaic Community Health receives $25,000 gift from Les Schwab Tire Centers to support Street Medicine program

April 24, 2025 11:35 am Barney Lerten

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Mosaic Community Health, a nonprofit community health center providing quality care for all in Central Oregon, has received a…

Historic St. Francis of Assisi Church in Bend

Major restoration complete; Historic St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church holding open house

April 24, 2025 11:24 am Barney Lerten

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — An extensive restoration has been completed at the Historic St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in downtown Bend, which is…

Alert employees catch fire early at downtown Bend bike-ski shop housed in historic ‘Old Stone Church’

April 23, 2025 12:28 pm Barney Lerten

Thanks to alert employees, a fire was kept fairly small and quickly stopped Wednesday morning in a downtown Bend bike and ski shop housed in a more…

Bend motorcyclist passing backed-up traffic in bike lane injured, cited after crash into turning SUV

April 23, 2025 5:42 pm Barney Lerten

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A motorcyclist who Bend police said was passing backed-up traffic in the bike lane crashed into an SUV turning left along…

Boil-water notice lifted for 1,500 Avion customers, water deemed safe after roundabout contractor hits line in NE Bend

April 22, 2025 4:56 pm Barney Lerten

A contractor on a roundabout project hit a main Avion Water Co. line in northern Bend Tuesday afternoon, “causing widespread water outages and loss…

Eight months in two minutes: Watch time-lapse video as the Bend Senior High renovation goes vertical

April 22, 2025 3:33 pm Barney Lerten

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Kevin Desrosiers just shared with us a time-lapse video of a neighboring business security camera’s view of the progress made so…

Spring surprise at the pump: Gas prices are still falling; Bend’s price drops another 7 cents a gallon

April 22, 2025 1:13 pm Barney Lerten

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon’s gas prices, including in Bend, are declining for the second week in a row at a time of year when prices normally…

Homeless service providers sue Forest Service in federal court, seek order to block China Hat Road area closure

April 21, 2025 10:37 am Isabella Warren

Service providers Chuck Hemingway and Eric Garrity, along with four other homeless people living off China Hat Road, have filed suit in U.S. District…

Reportedly armed man runs from officers in SE Bend, quickly restrained, arrested in elementary school parking lot

April 21, 2025 2:57 pm Barney Lerten

A 21-year-old man reported by a screaming 911 caller to be armed at a southeast Bend home ran from officers late Monday morning and was soon arrested…