Beginning Friday and lasting through the weekend, thousands are expected to take part in the “Gambler 500” in around the Crooked River National Grassland. The event is an adventure challenge to clean up trash sites across public lands in the area.
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A Crook County School District bus driver has been taken off-duty and an investigation launched after the driver reportedly went into the Wilco store and left several students unattended on the bus for several minutes without adult supervision.
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A motorcycle operator and passenger were seriously injured in a crash into a tree and barbed wire fence north of Prineville late Sunday afternoon, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said.
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A fire heavily damaged a mobile home in northwest Prineville Wednesday evening while the six residents were away, but three pets were found deceased inside, officials said.
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The water level at Prineville Reservoir has rebounded to full this year, and is still close to full — but the well serving the main state park campground has had trouble keeping up with demand. In fact, it ran out of water over the Fourth of July weekend, prompting trucking in of supplies, officials said.
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A much-discussed changing of the guard took place Wednesday night as three newly elected Crook County School Board members were sworn into their four-year terms and quickly immersed themselves in a variety of issues facing the school district, including the process to replace departing Superintendent Dr. Sara Johnson.
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A fire that put up tall black smoke visible for miles destroyed a boat on Prineville Reservoir on Saturday, but the occupants escaped uninjured, authorities said.
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The Trust for Public Land has worked with the U.S. Forest Service to ensure 97 acres of riverfront access along the Wild and Scenic Crooked River are protected for public use, they announced Friday.
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At a special meeting Monday evening, the Crook County School Board unanimously appointed Steve Holliday to fill the vacant at-large board position recently vacated by Gwen Carr’s resignation over health issues.
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Bringing students and the community together was the theme of Tuesday’s big announcement as Meta unveiled a $200,000 construction program grant to benefit Crook County High School and area nonprofit organizations.
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Four children escaped a fire that heavily damaged a home northwest of Prineville Sunday afternoon, but two pets perished in the blaze, authorities said. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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A judge has issued a temporary restraining order to prevent the Crook County School Board from choosing a replacement for a board vacancy until a hearing is held next week on a lawsuit claiming the board failed to follow its own policies for the replacement process.
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Firefighters responded and got a line around a fire that burned nine acres near McKay Saddle on the Ochoco National Forest Wednesday evening.
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Beginning Monday, May 22, and extending through Sunday, June 4, the Crook County Sheriff’s Office and the Prineville Police Department conducted 28 traffic stops during an enhanced enforcement operation, which produced one arrest for DUII/Alcohol, two citations for driving with a suspended license and one citation for improper use of child
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Crook County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue’s 24th mission of the year so far was for more stranded motorists – but this time, with a twist: Rescuers found the vehicle was un-stuck, unoccupied — and the two subjects were already home, unaware SAR was even called out to help them.
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For this segment of our Salute to Seniors series, we pay a visit to Crook County High School, where the Class of 2023 is drawing praise for its many accomplishments.
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Crook County High’s Class of 2023 continued the ‘honorary walk-through’ tradition Friday, walking the elementary and middle school halls in their caps and gowns, to the cheers and hand-slaps of the kids following in their footsteps.
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The continuing Greater Idaho movement to shift Oregon’s border west so that much of Eastern Oregon joins its neighbor to the east claimed two wins Wednesday — avoiding a recall of a razor-thin seven-vote win in Wallowa County, and the Crook County Court’s vote to put the advisory measure on next May’s ballot.
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After leading the Crook County School District as its superintendent for the past five years, Dr. Sara Johnson announced Wednesday that she plans to leave her post by July 6th, citing voters’ recent major turnover of school board seats as a big factor in her decision.
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Discover Your Forest and the Ochoco National Forest are seeking applicants 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.
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