BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Mt. Bachelor, a ski and snowboard resort seeking to further grow its summertime “off-season” activities, announced Thursday that is set to open its first mixed-use trail, Evergreen, designed for a “mellow experience” of easy two-way hiking and downhill biking. Here’s their full announcement: Mt. Bachelor Opens New Mixed-Use Trail For Hikers,
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Two Bend residents face first-degree arson and other charges, one accused of smashing an ex-roommate’s car window with a baseball bat while she was sleeping inside, pouring a flammable liquid on it and setting it ablaze, police said Thursday.
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) – The City of Prineville is looking for a new police chief. At Ron’s Comfort Food Café, community members were invited Wednesday evening to meet-and-greet three finalists: Tom Crino, Kenneth Booker and Chad Davis. Prineville City Councilor Marvin Sumner said, “I think we want someone that’s going to bring in stability, knowledge,
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A new street mural by Bend artist Evan Namkung now greets visitors to the Old Mill District from a unique perspective. Located on the steps between Francesca’s and Ben & Jerry’s in the district, just behind Regal Cinemas, you can see the mural when looking back at the stairway from below,
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Central Oregon firefighters continued in Wednesday’s hot, windy conditions to battle several large fast-moving fires burning around the region among the many being fought across the state.
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Firefighters quickly put out a small brush fire along the Deschutes River Trail downstream from Bend’s First Street Rapids Wednesday afternoon. Officials said it was considered human-caused, but no specific cause was found. A park user told NewsChannel 21 it happened in an area where some homeless campers had previously been given 24 hours notice to leave.
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Central Oregon resident Liz Grotzsky reached out to NewsChannel 21 about her frustrations with Paid Leave Oregon for still not receiving benefits after filing her claim in late May.
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The city of Bend recently shared numbers on the city’s trends in housing production, a presentation on the number of new housing units created and of what type for each year, dating back 20 years.
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CONDON, Ore. (KTVZ) — Here’s Wednesday’s official updates on several of the large fires burning across Oregon: Governor Kotek Invokes the Emergency Conflagration Act for Durkee and Battle Mountain Complex Fires Durkee and Battle Mountain Complex Fires burning in Baker, Malheur, Grant, Umatilla Counties Canyonville, OR — Governor Tina Kotek invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Pacific Power notified nearly 7,000 southwest Bend customers Wednesday of an emergency service interruption planned for about 15 minutes late Thursday night, starting at midnight, an outage they said is “necessary to maintain equipment.” “An emergency power interruption is scheduled for Friday, July 26th, starting at 12:00 AM and ending at
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A gunman robbing a northeast Bend marijuana dispensary Tuesday afternoon struck an employee in the face and tried to fire two shots at her, but the handgun malfunctioned, police said. He managed to walk out the door with a bag of marijuana before other workers grabbed him and put him in a headlock until officers arrived.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued an air quality advisory Wednesday “until further notice” for Deschutes and Crook counties and all or part of several other counties due to smoke from the wildfires burning across the state. The list includes: Grant County Wheeler County Crook County Deschutes County Southern Umatilla County Southern Morrow County Klamath County
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Bend man who was living at a licensed day care facility at the time of his arrest in late May pleaded not guilty Monday to 20 first- and second-degree felony counts of encouraging child sexual abuse and one misdemeanor count of encouraging the sexual assault of an animal. Deschutes County
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Seasonally adjusted unemployment rates decreased throughout Central Oregon in June, while both Crook and Deschutes counties saw total nonfarm employment increase over the month, the Oregon Employment Department reported Tuesday. Crook County: The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased over the month of June and is now 6.1%, down from 6.3% in
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Unattended campfires at homeless camps have kept firefighters busy this fire season. In just one day, Bend firefighters responded to and put out two such fires. Last week, a La Pine homeless man was arrested for leaving a burn pit unattended.
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Poachers shot a mule deer doe with an arrow and left the carcass to waste in Madras a Madras neighborhood on Thursday, June 13. The reward for information leading to an arrest or citation is $1,000 or four ODFW hunter preference points, officials said Tuesday in an update on the case.
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Redmond Police Department said it fielded multiple calls Tuesday from citizens regrading an attempted scam. Each person stated they received a call from the Redmond Police Department’s business phone number. The person on the line represented themselves as a Redmond Police officer and was attempting to obtain personal information from
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Due to continued hot weather, extremely dry vegetation and significant local fire activity, the Deschutes National Forest, Ochoco National Forest and Crooked River National Grassland, and Prineville District Bureau of Land Management will move to Industrial Fire Precaution Level IV “General Shutdown” on Thursday. Effective at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, July
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Redmond police are investigating the collision of an SUV and motorcycle near a northwest Redmond intersection Monday night that sent the rider, a 19-year-old Redmond man, to St. Charles Bend with life-threatening injuries. Police and fire medics responded around 10:15 p.m. to the crash involving a Jeep SUV and a Kawasaki
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Mid Oregon Credit Union, the only financial institution headquartered in Central Oregon, has announced that it has grown to 48,000 members as of June 30, 2024. Mid Oregon has grown membership by 20 percent over a three-year period. “While we measure our success by traditional metrics such as membership and loan
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