SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is urging a federal judge in Spokane, Washington to rule that the Food & Drug Administration’s restrictions on the abortion medication mifepristone are unnecessary and unlawful, and to order the federal agency to remove these barriers to the drug’s access. Rosenblum is co-leading the multistate lawsuit with Washington
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Prineville District BLM managers reminded the public Friday that Teaters Road outside of Prineville remains open for public access, the result of a legal dispute a few years ago that landed in federal court. “Maintaining legal, public access to public lands is important to the BLM,” said Amanda Roberts, BLM Prineville
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Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, has added the state’s largest natural gas utility to its $51.5 billion climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies over their role in the region’s deadly 2021 heat- dome event. The lawsuit, filed last year, accuses the companies’ carbon emissions of being a cause
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division said Friday it is investigating the unlawful take and waste of a cow elk in the Ochoco Wildlife Management Unit and is asking for the public’s assistance to identify whoever is responsible. On Wednesday, OSP troopers from Prineville responded to a report of
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ)– It’s still early days for House Bill 4002, which recriminalized drug possession in the state, as local governments and law enforcement learn from its first month in place. Recover Together Bend reports early success, having treated more than a dozen people this month. “Good treatment centers can take a 1% bit of willingness and turn it
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La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Investigators have identified human remains found in a wooded area north of La Pine earlier this week as an Oregon City man who had been missing from the Crescent area for over a year, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said Thursday. “Currently, based on the evidence and investigation thus far, foul
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By Eric Tegethoff, Oregon News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit to stop the logging of centuries-old trees on the Oregon coast. The Bureau of Land Management is moving forward with the Blue and Gold logging project to cut down rare old-growth forests in the state’s coastal range. Grace Brahler, wildlands director with Cascadia
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senator Ron Wyden said Thursday he is cosponsoring legislation that would provide tax credits to generate incentives for new investments and additional resources for single-family home construction and renovations for working families in Oregon and nationwide. Senator Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., who led the New Homes Tax Credit Act, released a report on housing supply
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Deschutes County sheriff’s candidate Sgt. Kent Vander Kamp went to court Wednesday, seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent the release of La Mesa, California Police Department personnel records from nearly 30 years ago sought by Oregon Public Broadcasting. But an error by his attorney made them available anyway.
Continue Reading SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced Wednesday that a coalition of 50 states, led by Oregon along with eight other states, has reached a settlement with Marriott International, Inc. over a massive 4-year long data breach of its Starwood system databases. Here’s that full announcement: The Federal Trade Commission, which has coordinated closely with the
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La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) – The discovery of human remains near Highway 97 north of La Pine Monday afternoon has prompted a death investigation by Deschutes County sheriff’s detectives and the Oregon State Police Forensics Lab, the sheriff’s office confirmed late Tuesday. Sergeant Jason Wall said the remains were found in a wooded area east
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Bend police are looking to the public for any tips that could help them find who abandoned a cardboard box full of eight very young puppies on Sunday at Hollinshead Park in northeast Bend.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A former Redmond resident who allegedly fled to Mexico nearly a decade ago shortly before being indicted on 28 counts of rape, sex abuse and incest has been extradited and returned to Deschutes County to face the charges, seven months after his arrest in Baja California. Jose Maria Nonato-Pineda Sr., 59,
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Since 2021, the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office has been offering the Emerging Adult Program, a pre-charge restorative justice initiative. This program allows young adult offenders to take accountability for their actions and redirect their lives, while prioritizing the healing and justice for those harmed by their behavior. The Emerging Adult Program
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man who prosecutors said ambushed and shot correctional officers at a Boise hospital in a plot to help a fellow white supremacist gang member escape from prison was sentenced to life behind bars on Friday. Nicholas Umphenour, 29, pleaded guilty earlier this year to several felonies, including
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Officials are investigating how a man convicted of assaulting a woman was able to cut off his GPS monitor and escape from a restrictive housing complex in Washington state, prompting a multistate search until he was captured Thursday. Damion Blevins, 33, was arrested outside a Portland, Oregon, convenience store after a three-day
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Chris Armstrong and his family say they’re on their last leg, after living at the RedPoint apartments in Redmond.
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MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Portland-area man who brandished a gun during an altercation at a Madras pub, then allegedly struck the other man with his SUV as he left was tracked down by law enforcement and arrested on DUII and other charges, Police Chief Timothy Plummer said. Harjinder Virk, 39, of the Portland suburb
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La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) – A drug-detection K-9’s alert during a recent traffic stop by Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies on Highway 97 in La Pine turned up over 22 pounds of methamphetamine and nearly five pounds of heroin, leading to charges against the female driver and male passenger, both from the Willamette Valley. Deputies pulled
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — U.S. consumers lost a staggering $10.3 billion to fraud in 2023, a 14% increase from the previous year’s total, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Oregonians lost more than $101 million to fraud in 2023, a 15.5% increase from 2022. Washingtonians lost more than $253 million, a 12.9% increase from 2022. Imposter scams were the top threats
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