The Battle Mountain Complex is a coordinated effort to stop the Monkey Creek, Snake and Boneyard fires in Eastern Oregon, just one group of fires among the more than 100 major blazes that broke out around the state during the fiery month of July.
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A 57-year-old man was found fatally stabbed Thursday night in the backyard of his southeast Bend home and his 46-year-old roommate was arrested, then arraigned Friday afternoon on second-degree murder and assault charges.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Lane Regional Air Protection Agency issued a new air quality advisory Friday due to more smoke from wildfires in Oregon, California, Idaho, Washington and Canada. The following areas are affected: Deschutes County Eastern Douglas County Grant County Harney County Klamath County Lake County Eastern
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SALEM, Ore. – With more hot temperatures, Red Flag Warnings in place and lightning in the forecast, the Oregon State Fire Marshal said Friday she is pre-positioning two structural task forces in Central Oregon, to help in case new wildfires erupt. The task forces are from Lincoln and Polk counties and have 26 firefighters, eight
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A 30-year-old Bend man has been arrested on four counts of encouraging child sex abuse after a months-long investigation prompted by cyber-tip from a national organization found he was distributing child sex abuse material online, authorities said Thursday. More charges were filed after a search of his cellphone. Detectives with the
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The Bend Park and Recreation District has proposed another noteworthy change to an iconic Bend setting that has undergone trail and other upgrades in recent years: installing a split rail wooden fence along the Deschutes River at Drake Park.
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Housing Works, the regional housing authority for Central Oregon, is excited to announce applications are being accepted from August 1st-15th for the newly redeveloped Spencer Court, a 60-unit modern affordable housing community in southwest Redmond. The first of the three-story buildings (12 apartment homes) is nearing completion, with the second building
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The search for a 31-year-old Warm Springs man who jumped into the Crooked River at Lake Billy Chinook with a friend late Sunday night and soon slipped underwater ended in tragedy late Wednesday afternoon when divers helped by sonar found Triston Boise’s body in 42 feet of water, Jefferson County Sheriff Jason Pollock said.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Nurse case managers at St. Charles’ hospitals in Bend, Madras, Prineville and Redmond overwhelmingly voted to join the Oregon Nurses Association this week, the union announced Thursday. The 19 registered nurse case managers are joining ONA’s bargaining unit at St. Charles Bend, which currently represents more than 1,100 frontline nurses at
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With this week’s closure of Deschutes River Montessori School and another recent closure, many Bend-area parents are scrambling to find new summer child care for their children, some also having to arrange new enrollment options for the 2024-25 school year.
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Central Oregonians are ending a record-hot, dry and smoky July with more “unhealthy” air quality readings, and with the traditional peak-wildfire month of August still ahead.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A lot of time, money and attention has been spent for years on helping homeowners and communities create “defensible space” around their properties, so a wildfire doesn’t have as much fuel to spread and cause even more danger and destruction. Much the same has taken place on national forests and in
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Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced Monday that the Federal Aviation Administration is awarding $17,364,442 to the state under the Airport Improvement Program, including $3.75 million to Bend Municipal Airport for the new air traffic control tower, a project getting under way this week.
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Organizers with the Newberry Regional Partnership met with a packed room of more than 100 La Pine community members Monday night to discuss possible solutions to the growing homelessness problem in the area and the risk of wildfires it poses.
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Some new out-of-state help has arrived to help lead the fight against two fires burning in the Ochoco National Forest. The Crazy Creek fire north of Paulina has grown to more than 22,000 acres, with no containment. The Kitty Creek Fire is at 73 acres and 86% contained.
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‘Parents and teachers have been cheated by this closure in many ways’ BEND, Ore (KTVZ) — Parents were blindsided by this week’s sudden closure of a Montessori school in Bend. Early Monday, Deschutes River Montessori School informed parents of concerning air quality levels within their building. In a follow-up email, it was indicated that air quality
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(Update: All evacuation levels dropped around Jackpine, Wickiup fires) PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) – A person who shot a pound of Tannerite explosive target compound on BLM land south of Prineville Saturday afternoon, sparking a fast-growing 20-acre wildfire, was cited by Crook County sheriff’s deputies for reckless burning and criminal mischief, an official said Tuesday —
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Governor Tina Kotek on Tuesday ordered flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff between sunrise on Wednesday, July 31 to sunset on Thursday, August 1, in memory of James Bailey Maxwell, 71, the lifelong pilot killed in the crash of his single-engine air tanker while helping fight an
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WASHNGTON (KTVZ) – Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced Monday he’s secured critical investments in Oregon transportation, affordable housing, economic development, and community public safety in the second set of fiscal year 2025 government spending bills to pass the committee—a key first step on the road to becoming law. Central
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A Forest Service paving project that was set to begin later this week on China Hat Road south of Bend has been delayed indefinitely due to the high fire danger in the woods and the related shutdown of all industrial operations in the Deschutes National Forest.
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