About 50 people gathered on the lawn at Redmond’s Centennial Park Saturday afternoon to hold a rally in support of former President Donald Trump.
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La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Marines from Springfield drove to La Pine Saturday to honor a fellow Marine. At the American Legion Post 45 in La Pine, many came to remember retired marine colonel, William Russell Stanard Jr. Family members and friends got a chance to say their goodbyes to their loved one. Stanard was a part of
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A rollover crash of an SUV Friday evening closed the new roundabout at U.S. Highway 20 and the Old Bend-Redmond Highway west of Bend for a time and sent the driver to the hospital. He also was cited for going too fast to navigate the traffic circle safely.
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All lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry’s Central Oregon District will enter fire season on Monday at 12:01 a.m., the agency announced Friday, while the Deschutes and Ochoco national forests and the BLM’s Prineville District have moved to moderate fire danger.
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Officials released details and photos Friday of the vandalism and theft at Mountain View High School during a ‘senior prank’ gone awry that led to cancellation of two traditional end-of-school year activities. They also detailed punishments handed out to those involved, including community service, a “sincere” letter to future seniors – and some not allowed to take part in Saturday’s graduation.
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Bend-area man charged with attempted murder, accused of shooting a Redmond-area man in the face last Monday, surrendered to police in Prineville Thursday and was taken to the Deschutes County Jail in Bend, but he refused to make his first court appearance Friday. Shooting victim Lowell Edward Templeton, 56, drove
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A sign pointing customers in the right direction for over 20 years has been stolen from the front lawn of the world’s last Blockbuster, NewsChannel 21 has learned. The general manager of Bend’s Blockbuster, Sandi Harding, told us they don’t have a surveillance camera that could have caught the crime and
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Construction crews are hard at work on the east side of McKenzie Pass and plan to have the highway above the gate paved and open by the morning of Thursday, July 4, ODOT said Friday. Earlier this week, crews began paving preparation work beyond the gate of this seasonally closed pass.
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MEDFORD, Ore. (KTVZ) —A Portland-area high school teacher was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Friday after admitting that he traveled to Bend in late 2022 in hopes of meeting a “15-year-old child” he’d met online, who turned out to be an undercover Bend Police officer, prosecutors said Edward Hernandez-Corchado, 27, who was a
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The viral video of a Bend police officer surprising a 2-year-old’s parent with the lack of an Oregon law against public nudity brings to some long-time Bend residents’ minds a high-profile case of a nudist activist more than 20 years ago who rode her bike and took walks in the buff on several occasions, even disrobing in a courtroom.
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Visit Central Oregon, the Regional Destination Management organization dedicated to managing tourism programs and driving economic development in Deschutes, Jefferson, Crook, and South Wasco counties, announces the hiring of Scott Larson as the organization’s new president and CEO. Larson, who previously spent five years as the executive director of Wyoming’s Albany County Tourism Board dba
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Major staff cuts and reduced print and online editions have been announced by Eastern Oregon Media Group, the family-owned company that operates 12 newspapers in Oregon and Washington, including The Bulletin in Bend and the Redmond Spokesman.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Cinder, a tiny one-pound kitten that was brought to the Humane Society of Central Oregon, was discovered to be a rare type of cat: a male tortoiseshell cat that is also a hermaphrodite (feline disorder of sexual development (DSD)). Tortoiseshell-colored cats, recognized for their striking swirls of black and shades of
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An SUV driver was cited for an illegal U-turn Wednesday morning after a collision with a motorcycle on SW Airport Way in Redmond that sent both riders to the hospital, one with serious injuries, police said Thursday.
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The city of Bend has plans in the works to make a new Pride crosswalk in downtown Bend permanent, even though it has become a target for vandals in the days since it was installed. First, it will get repainted next week, with more durable paint.
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(Update: Adding video, comments from friends) Police says investigation active: ‘We’ll not stop working to bring justice to Ms. Weaver and her family.’ BEND, Ore. (KTVZ)– As we approach the first anniversary of the killing of Bend resident Evelyn Weaver, close friends are sharing their frustration with the status of the investigation. No new information has
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An escaped fire at a homeless camp by the southbound Bend Parkway brought out firefighters Wednesday afternoon after it was spotted by employees of a nearby business and tackled by workers and police with extinguishers. It put up tall, black smoke but thanks to their work did not damage the business or require closing the road.
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“Portraits in Red: Missing & Murdered Indigenous People Painting Project,” a national traveling exhibition, went on display Wednesday at The Museum at Warm Springs and will be on view through the summer, shining a spotlight on an issue of heartbreaking loss and unanswered questions.
Continue ReadingThe terms for Madras Mayor Mike Lepin and three of the six positions on the Madras City Council will end December 31, and the filing period to run for those seats opened Wednesday.
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Deschutes County commissioners heard a loud message Wednesday from several neighbors of county-owned land north of Bend who are strongly opposed to the idea of an RV campground off Fort Thompson Lane, and want to stop it in its early tracks.
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