(Update: Adding video, comments from organizers) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ)– Friday marked the first day of Bendi Gras, bringing Mardi Gras to the High Desert. “Mardi Gras in general is a community-wide effort,” organizer Ruth Vernotico said Friday. “And it’s something that I think really helps establish a sense of levity and fun and celebration in
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(Update: Added video) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – KTVZ News told you recently about the sudden closure of Nome Italiano, on Bend’s Westside. Friday came word that an Indian cuisine restaurant will be taking its place this spring. Here’s Friday’s full announcement from Compass Commercial:Authentic Indian Restaurant Moving into Former Nome Location Bend is gearing up
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(Update: Added video) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A rock broke a buried Avion Water Co. pipeline near Knott Road in southern Bend Thursday afternoon, sending up to 1 million gallons of water spilling across the area, damaging two homes and leaving about 100 customers under a boil-water notice for a few days. Avion Water Co.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Â A cellphone’s automated crash notification and a witness report brought rescuers to the scene of a snowmobile crash into a tree off Century Drive on Thursday that seriously injured a Portland man and his 14-year-old daughter, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. Deschutes County 911 dispatchers were contacted around 10:15 a.m. Thursday
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A small natural gas explosion in the kitchen of the Bend Poker Room in northeast Bend, traced to a gas-fired pizza oven, caused little damage Thursday afternoon but sent one person to St. Charles Bend with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. Bend Fire & Rescue crews were dispatched around 4:50 p.m. to
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Crook County Sheriff’s Office asked for hay donations Thursday after it took possession of a horse during an investigation of reported lack of care for the animal. Hours later, it ran out of room to store any more hay and offered thanks for the community’s support. The sheriff’s office received
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The executive director of the Bend nonprofit HÚE says they could soon be forced to shut their doors, after a delay in thousands of dollars in needed funding.
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Skanska, a global construction and development firm, announced Thursday that it has topped out the new St. Charles Cancer Center in Redmond. “This significant milestone marks the completion of the structural framework for the 53,000-square-foot facility, which will substantially expand access to world-class cancer care services throughout Central Oregon,” the company
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Egg prices are skyrocketing to all-time highs, due in large part to an outbreak of avian flu. This has been afflicting egg-laying hens in the US since 2022.
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Tax season is in full swing and the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service announced he plans to retire Friday. This comes as the Trump administration is set to close more than 100 IRS offices, including two in Oregon, in Bend and Salem, Fox 12 in Portland and national news outlets reported Thursday.
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(Update: Charges dropped against Redmond woman; Estacada man pleads guilty) COLLEGE PLACE, Wash. (KTVZ) — A Redmond woman and an Estacada man were arrested earlier this year in College Place, Washington, accused in a string of jewelry thefts hitting Walmarts across the Pacific Northwest that’s totaled at least $140,000 in losses. However, Mistie Dawn Cooper,
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Social media has been abuzz with flyers for a scheduled protest Wednesday afternoon in front of Madras City Hall in honor of Allan Warner Jr. who died late last week during an officer-involved shooting.
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(adding video) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Heart of Oregon Corps is celebrating their 25th anniversary with the close of a land partition and purchase from Opportunity Foundation of Central Oregon of a 3.4-acre site for a centralized campus in Redmond. Jillian Fortner is speaking with Heart of Oregon Corps officials at the press conference. Her
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Rep. Emerson Levy, D-Bend, introduced a legislative package on Tuesday before the House Committee on Health and Health Care that she said is designed to lower prescription drug costs and increase transparency in drug pricing. Building on her previous work, Levy said she introduced the bipartisan legislation to lower everyday costs
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Deschutes County is encouraging residents to prepare their homes for wildfire season and will be offering free disposal of yard debris at collection sites around the county later this spring. The 2025 FireFree disposal events begin on May 2, but the drop-off dates and times of operation vary by location. “Wildfire embers can
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Bethlehem Inn invited community members from around Central Oregon to tour the Bend facility Tuesday and learn more about its many programs.
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An arrest warrant has been issued for a Florida truck driver who failed to appear in court last week and faces criminally negligent homicide and other charges in a crash a year ago on icy Highway 97 that killed a La Pine woman and seriously injured her pregnant daughter, who lost her child as a result.
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EUGENE, Ore. (KTVZ)–A Tacoma, Washington man has been sentenced to nearly 14 years in federal prison for using social media to coerce a minor into sending him sexually explicit materials and engage in self-harm – a case that began with a tip to Bend Police, federal prosecutors said. Brandon Kuper, 22, was sentenced to 165
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Two local nonprofits, Opportunity Foundation of Central Oregon and Heart of Oregon Corps, recently announced a landmark moment in their partnership: the partition and sale of a portion of Opportunity Foundation’s property to Heart of Oregon for the establishment of Heart of Oregon’s first permanent campus.
Continue ReadingEditor’s Note: CNN & Sky News provided information used in this article.PARIS (KTVZ) – An American teenager has been arrested in Paris, accused of fatally throwing her newborn baby out of a second-floor hotel window, prosecutors and French media say. The young woman, not named by authorities, was taken to a hospital to undergo an
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