BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Central Oregon Association of REALTORS® (COAR) is accepting applications from Central Oregon nonprofits now through Sept. 16 for COAR’s Charitable Giving. The criteria for those applying consists of: · Applicant must be a 501(c)3 · Priority will be given to smaller organizations that provide basic needs to the community, such
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Electric utilities across Oregon have filed their first state-required Wildfire Mitigation Plans, designed to prevent and mitigate wildfire risk, with the Oregon Public Utility Commission, the agency said Friday.
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Oregon’s nonfarm payroll employment grew by 8,700 jobs in June, following gains averaging 6,200 jobs in the prior seven months, the Oregon Employment Department reported Wednesday, along with a June jobless rate of 3.5% that’s essentially unchanged and close to the U.S. figure.
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The owner of the Middle Eastern, Lebanese- influenced restaurant, Joolz, on Wall Street in downtown Bend said after changes brought on by the pandemic, supply issues, rising prices, and indoor floods, it’s the employee shortage that has led to it temporarily closing its physical location.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Economic Development for Central Oregon will again host the annual Bend Venture Conference on Thursday, October 20 and Friday, October 21, in downtown Bend and virtually online. Ticketing, speaker announcements and event details for the 19th Annual Bend Venture Conference will be announced in the coming weeks. Over the past six
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Oregon’s average gasoline price has fallen 12.3 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $5.26 a gallon as of Monday, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 1,307 stations in Oregon. Prices in Oregon are 26.1 cents per gallon lower than a month ago but stand $1.59/g higher than a year ago.
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“We are not able to meet the increase in costs in the health care industry right now with a requisite increase in revenue,” St. Charles Health System Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Matt Swafford told NewsChannel 21 Monday.
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Three days after Joe Sluka resigned as St. Charles Health System president and CEO, the organization announced it has laid off and eliminated two upper-level positions to cut costs and reactivated its incident command system to deal with the continued financial, patient capacity and staffing impacts of COVID-19.
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Sparks are flying for a new go-to spot in La Pine, with its own unique combination of elements. Located off Highway 97 in downtown La Pine, the Wetlands Taphouse is opening soon.
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Construction crews are building homes all over Bend to try and meet demand amid a severe shortage of housing.
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After nearly eight years as president and CEO of St. Charles Health System, the last 2 1/2 dealing with the many ramifications and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, Joe Sluka announced Tuesday his intention to step down from the role.
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On the last day of this year’s statewide “Hidden Bottle Hunt,” Bend resident Shane Chatham spent all of Sunday morning searching Hollinshead Park in northeast Bend – and when the fifth and final clue was posted, he made his find, very close by.
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It appears that Central Oregon’s hot real estate market is not immune to the nationwide cooldown, as inflation, rising mortgage rates and still near record-high prices have an impact on sales and inventory, a monthly real estate report released Thursday indicated.
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Workers in the Bend-Redmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (defined as all of Deschutes County) had an average (mean) hourly wage of $26.25 in May 2021, about 6 percent below the nationwide average of $28.01, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday.
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The Metropolitan Barber Shop on Wall Street in downtown Bend is not closed, but it looked like it was Tuesday, thanks to the boarded-up front window.
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Oregon Housing and Community Services, together with the Oregon Department of Justice and the Oregon Division of Financial Regulation, part of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, has launched a new website and awareness campaign to support struggling homeowners at risk of foreclosure.
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Outdated federal barriers to banking services continue to severely impact the legal cannabis industry in Oregon and nationwide, state cannabis regulators said Friday.
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LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. (KTVZ) — The bleak hospital financial picture from 2021 worsened in the first quarter of 2022, as a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations from the Omicron wave and rising labor and other costs combined to produce a dismal fiscal quarter that saw 58 percent of Oregon’s hospitals post a negative margin. Hospitals lost
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Minimum-wage workers will get a raise when Oregon’s minimum wage rates go up on July 1, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries said.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Pomegranate Home & Garden, a retail shop located at the historic Boyd Family Homestead near Bend River Mall, is changing ownership after 25 years of operation under Jan and Robert Brockway. The Brockways have made an indelible mark on the Bend retail scene, having opened Pomegranate with the dream of bringing European design sensibilities
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