The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued another air quality advisory Tuesday for Central and Southern Oregon due to smoke from the wildfires in Oregon and Northern California. The length of the advisory varies by location.
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The Crook County Sheriff’s Office and the Prineville Police Department will be joining agencies throughout Oregon in a statewide safety belt enforcement “blitz” from Monday, August 21 to Sunday, Sept. 3.
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The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Lane Regional Air Protection Agency issued an air quality advisory Friday for Jackson, southern Josephine, eastern Lane, northern Lake, Klamath, Deschutes and Crook counties. Ity remains in effect through noon Sunday.
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Beginning Monday, August 28, a section of Forest Service Road 42 on the Ochoco National Forest will be closed through November for road maintenance and reconstruction.
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Control lines held and there was no growth overnight on the 12-acre Fuzztail Fire that broke out five miles south of Bend Tuesday afternoon, while other crews built a line around the 4.4-acre Johnson Saddle Fire, reported later in the day seven miles northeast of Prineville.
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Jake and Josh Eckstein passed away in 2019 in a tragic crash while they were on their way to work. Since then, their parents Scott and Phyllis Eckstein have been working to create a long-lasting legacy for their boys, creating the Jake and Josh Eckstein Memorial Trade Scholarship fund.
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Crook County firefighters, assisted by state and federal agencies, stopped a small brush fire in southwest Prineville Friday afternoon that threatened several buildings, including homes, and was traced to a burn barrel too close to combustibles.
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The Crook County Sheriff’s Office, with the help of Country Financial and at Proline Fabrication, hosted a new event at the county fair on Friday — a pre-sale breakfast for 4-H kids to meet with potential buyers before Saturday’s auction, talking up their animals. Our Dylan Anderman was on hand for this report.
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Abby’s Legendary Pizza is coming to Prineville. The family-owned pizza parlor will begin an extensive remodel in August and hopes to open in three to four months. “Two decades ago, the people of Prineville sent Abby’s a petition asking for us to open in their community. It’s taken a while, but
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An intoxicated 65-year-old Prineville man who allegedly shot and killed a dog and threatened a neighbor refused to come out of his home Monday evening, prompting a call-out of the Central Oregon Emergency Response Team until he surrendered and was taken into custody, police said.
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Residents in the area of Crook County’s Juniper Canyon have been dealing with the sounds and impacts of loud, nerve-shattering explosions for months. They claim they’re powerful enough to shake homes. The reason behind it isn’t as common as was first thought, and could surprise many.
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The Ochoco National Forest said Thursday it has begun work on the Greater Williams Prairie Restoration Project, a ridgetop-to-valley bottom effort to improve watershed health.
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The Crook County School Board, in a surprise move, announced Friday it has unanimously agreed to consider former Crook County School District superintendent Dr. Duane Yecha of Prineville as a finalist for interim superintendent.
Continue ReadingThe Ochoco National Forest said Wednesday it will now be implementing public use fire restrictions due to increasingly dry grasses, brush and vegetation.
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Over the last several weeks, the Crook County Sheriff’s Office said it has received numerous calls regarding explosions being heard/felt in the southern portion of the county.
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) –Discover Your Forest and the Ochoco National Forest have extended until August 1 the deadline to apply for the Young Women’s Natural Resource Career Camp, to be held August 29-31 at Wildcat Campground on the Ochoco National Forest outside of Prineville. Young women from around Central Oregon entering grades 10-12 are encouraged
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A Prineville-area woman who crashed her SUV about 70 feet down an embankment off Juniper Canyon Road early Saturday morning managed to get out and slept under a tree until a drone searching the area awakened her, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said.
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A fire Wednesday morning destroyed a home and camp trailer in the “off-the-grid” Juniper Acres subdivision in the southwest corner of Crook County, Undersheriff Bill Elliott said.
Continue Reading The Ochoco National Forest will be hosting the 28th Annual Ochoco National Forest Senior Fishing Derby on Wednesday, July 26. The derby provides a fun and free morning of fishing and prizes for participants 55 years of age and older.
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Firefighters on Sunday stopped at small size a wildfire on the Ochoco National Forest east of Prineville that was found to have started from an escaped campfire.
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