TERREBONNE, Ore, (KTVZ) – A string of complaints about an SUV on Highway 97 whose driver almost hit several other vehicles Monday afternoon led to the arrest of a 34-year-old Bend man who flipped his vehicle in a crash and landed in a pond near Smith Rock State Park, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. The
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Bend Chamber is holding a media event Thursday to showcase the next phase of its Workforce Housing Initiative and celebrate a new, low-interest loan from the Chamber, funded by an initial seed donation of $500,000 from Providence Health Plan. The loan product provides early-stage capital at a low interest rate
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Filling the fundamental human desire for connection and community is what we all strive for. When friends join a giving circle, it strengthens social bonds and fosters a sense of camaraderie. This is what inspired 100+ Women Who Care Central Oregon in 2014. Today, the all-volunteer organization with more than 130+
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Contractors working on a northwest Bend water line project struck a natural gas line Monday morning, prompting the evacuation of two homes, closure of area streets, notification to nearby residents to shelter in place and a precautionary power shutoff while repairs were underway.
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Our month-long campaign to Clear the Shelters takes us now to the Humane Society of the Ochocos. The no-kill shelter in Prineville was founded in 1995 to find homes for hundreds of cats and dogs.
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Jefferson County officials met Friday with officials from dozens of taxing districts, from the library to cities and fire districts, to discuss a $1.8 million property tax over-payment by Portland General Electric, letting them know utility has agreed to reduce the repayment impacts on their budgets.
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Oregon’s four-year-long Measure 110 drug decriminalization experiment is approaching its end next week, after legislators and the governor signed off on recriminalization and new reforms, but left many of the details up to each county to work out.
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Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ski season is still at least several months away, but the unusually cold storm that frosted West Coast mountain peaks late last week brought a hint of winter in August. The calendar briefly skipped ahead to November as the system dropped out of the Gulf of Alaska, down through
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue teams had a busy late-summer Sunday, with three rescue operations west of Bend – including one in which an off-duty volunteer happened upon a group of lost teens, and another that ended just as it began when an overdue man turned up in good condition.
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Artists from far and wide and art lovers from across the High Desert are coming together at Bend’s Riverbend Park on Sunday for the last day of this year’s Art in the High Desert.
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — The recent cooler, wetter weather has been helping Oregon firefighters tackle several larger wildfires, many over a month old. But the threat of new wildfires remains high, as another warmup is due in coming days. As of Sunday morning, there were still about 250 firefighters battling the remaining lightning-sparked wildfire on
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Redmond High School students, parents and staff will notice cooler air and better ventilation as classes resume this fall as a result of work done over the summer through part of the school district’s bond passed by voters in 2020.
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A citizen walking their dog along the shore of Diamond Lake spotted a body in the water on Friday, leading to the recovery of a 37-year-old Bend man who drowned while boating with friends last weekend, prompting days of searching, Douglas County sheriff’s deputies said.
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A Bend-area man jailed earlier this month on a drugged driving charge has been charged with luring a minor and attempting to use a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct, accused of sending explicit images and texts to someone he thought was a minor, but actually was an undercover officer.
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The former executive director of St. Vincent de Paul of Bend was arraigned Friday on a grand jury indictment accusing the Redmond resident of possessing “substantial quantities” of methamphetamine and delivering the drug within 1,000 feet of two schools.
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A standing-room-only, overflow crowd attended a La Pine Planning Commission hearing Wednesday night, many to voice opposition to Habitat for Humanity La Pine Sunriver’s proposed 34-townhome subdivision in the Newberry neighborhood.
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After a drunk driver crashed into Bonta and was arrested on a DUII charge earlier this month, viewers brought up safety concerns related to Galveston Avenue. The City of Bend already is planning to revamp the corridor in 2025 to create safer conditions for drivers, cyclists and businesses along the street.
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(Update: Adding POWDR statement) Resort official says no immediate impact; co. seeks to ‘balance ski business with new ventures’ BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Powdr is putting Mt. Bachelor and two of its other ski resorts in Colorado and British Columbia up for sale, while announcing it’s sold two Vermont resorts to a group of local
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With some cooler weather and various levels of precipitation across Central Oregon, the Deschutes and Ochoco national forests, Crooked River National Grassland and the Bureau of Land Management’s Prineville District will reduce the Industrial Fire Precaution Level to Level III (Partial Shutdown) effective at 12:01 a.m. Friday.
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – An RV was destroyed Thursday morning in a fire traced to a charging vape pen that spread to about a half-acre of brush and trees off Highway 126 on Redmond’s east side before crews were able to stop and contain it. The resident, who was not in the motor home at
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