Do spectacular sunsets on the High Desert ever get old? Not for so many of us – thank you for your photos of Wednesday night’s very special sunset. Here are two dozen – and a special time-lapse video from our friend, Johnny Oliver. Please share your images from the Share tab at KTVZ.COM.
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Seeking cancer treatment for many Central Oregonians will get easier in the future, with a major new facility coming to Redmond.
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Cushman & Wakefield announced Wednesday that the firm has been retained as exclusive advisor by the Oregon Department of State Lands for the sale of ±262 acres of developable land in southeast Bend, the second part of the Stevens Ranch Tract.
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(Update: adding video, comment from the dog owner, statement from Zoetis) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Three days after receiving an under-the-skin pain blocker injection for osteoarthritis, a Bend dog passed away. The owner, Kyle Blankenship, says after the drug was administered to his dog, Sasha, who experienced paralysis before she said. Blankenship told us he
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A brush fire that Redmond firefighters stopped at about an acre just east of the city Tuesday evening prompted Pacific Power to enact an emergency, precautionary power shutoff that topped 10,000 customers at its peak and lasted for over 90 minutes.
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Three newly minted physicians are the first trainees of the Three Sisters Rural Track Program, or RTP, a three-year family medicine residency program that is Central Oregon’s first graduate medical education program.
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MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) – An “active shooter” drill at St. Charles Madras Wednesday morning sparked some worries among police-scanner listeners, but officials assured there was no real danger, only a valuable exercise for law enforcement and the hospital. The scanner traffic related a man with a handgun “actively firing rounds” and that there were “numerous
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) – A reportedly armed suspect in a domestic violence case in Prineville ran before Crook County sheriff’s deputies arrived on scene Monday afternoon, leading to a manhunt, partial closure of Northwest Madras Highway and his eventual surrender at the Crook County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were dispatched around 1:20 p.m. Monday to the
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A La Pine man was cited on careless driving and other charges after his van struck and seriously injured a woman in a Sisters intersection Monday evening while her husband was carrying an orange pedestrian safety flag, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies were dispatched around 6:25 p.m. to the intersection
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Floating the Deschutes River is a go-to summer activity for locals and tourists alike. It’s starting to heat up again on the High Desert, and people have found the solution to cooling off, floating the river, a popular way to spend your time. Nathan Bregel said Tuesday, “This is just our
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Dr. Laurie Chesley, president of Central Oregon Community College, has announced her plans to step down from her role and retire as of June 30, 2025, having served the college as president since July of 2019. Chesley is only the sixth president in COCC’s nearly 75-year history. The college’s board of
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Seasonally adjusted unemployment rates remained unchanged in Central Oregon over the month of May, the Oregon Employment Department reported Tuesday. All three Central Oregon counties saw total nonfarm employment increase in May, while year-over-year, total nonfarm employment increased in Deschutes and Jefferson counties. Crook County: The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate did
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Plans include speed reduction, new roundabout, shared-use path WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Oregon U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with Representatives Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), and Andrea Salinas (OR-06), announced Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Transportation is awarding nearly $43 million in federal funding from its Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability
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As the conversation around the use of technology in schools heats up in Bend-La Pine and elsewhere, state Rep. Emerson Levy of Bend held a virtual forum Monday night to discuss how cellphones and other technologies impact students, staff, teachers, and caregivers in and out of the classroom.
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The Long Bend Fire, which broke out late Saturday afternoon on the west side of the Deschutes River southwest of Maupin, has grown to more than 1,000 acres after prompting the Wasco County Sheriff’s Office to raise a Level 1 ‘Get Ready’ pre-evacuation notice to Level 2 ‘Get Set.’
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — On Friday, northbound traffic on U.S. Highway 97 will be permanently shifted to the newly built northbound U.S. 97 parkway, ODOT officials said Monday. With this change, the new northbound Empire Avenue and Cooley Road on-ramps will open, and the southbound onramp at Robal Lane will temporarily close. Travelers wanting to
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A warm early summer Monday had firefighters scrambling to put out several new fires around the region, from a small blaze in the woods east of Sunriver to two along railroad tracks in Bend and Redmond – sparked by a train’s locked brakes – and three fires in a short period in northwest Madras.
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A Sisters nonprofit, Romeo’s Joy , is bringing love and companionship to seniors with disabilities in an unusual way – through animatronic pets. They provide them to seniors with dementia, Alzheimer’s or mental and physical disabilities who need companionship but can’t care for a living pet.
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A 22-year-old Bend man was arrested Sunday on 52 criminal mischief charges, accused of spraying dozens of XUKA graffiti tags around the city over the past five months, police said.
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Monday marked the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court reversing the 1973 Roe V. Wade ruling that crated a federal right to an abortion, leaving the decision now up to the states.
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