A Red Bluff, California man was seriously injured Saturday night when his ATV crashed and rolled over him on a road south of Prineville, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies were dispatched just before 10:30 p.m. to the reported quad ATV injury crash in the 6600 block of Southeast Riverdance Road, about seven miles south
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A Prineville man was hospitalized Thursday after his pickup truck left the Powell Butte Highway and crashed into several boulders, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies responded around 3 p.m. to the reported crash near milepost 6, Deputy Javier Sanchez said. Deputies learned a GMC pickup driven by Harley Hunter, 61, was heading toward Prineville
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In a continuation of recent prescribed burn projects, fire managers on the Ochoco National Forest are planning to ignite juniper jackpots on 1,000 acres near Prineville as early as next week. The Old Dry Creek prescribed burn project is located about eight miles northeast of Prineville, about one mile southeast of McKay Creek, and four
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The 36th annual Rural Health Conference kicked off Wednesday at the Riverhouse on the Deschutes in Bend. The two-day conference attracts health care leaders from around the state to collaborate on ways to address health care barriers in rural Oregon. The agenda covers topics including working with patients in their homes, providing better health care
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BestCare Treatment Services will take over as the Crook County Community Mental Health provider, replacing Lutheran Community Services Northwest, with a goal transition date of Dec. 1., the county announced Wednesday. A verbal agreement has been reached between LCS, BestCare and the Crook County commissioners to make the transition. A formal written agreement is in
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Aimed at preventing the “summer slide,” Kiwanis Summer School in Prineville achieved that goal for a sixth straight year. “After viewing the results from our Kiwanis Summer School classrooms, it is apparent that the vast majority of students improved over the summer in both reading and math,” reported Crook County School District Curriculum Director Stacy
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“What’s your favorite thing that begins with the letter W?” The teen reads aloud the question from her Chat Pack card. “Honestly, it’s water. I have a serious obsession with water,” she told her classmates. “That’s a healthy thing,” her teacher responded. “Your body is made up of water, so you’re probably going to enhance
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Sparks flying from the tire rims of a Prineville woman driving by on state Highway 126 allegedly ignited the 10-acre Stillman Fire last Friday. Two residents awakened by banging on their RV home’s door lost their home and some pets to the blaze. But not all.
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The Ochoco National Forest and Crooked River National Grassland says it has authorized increased fees at some developed recreation sites, starting this spring.
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Crook County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue conducted two more recent rescues of motorists stranded in the snow, one a mother and her two children, bringing this year’s tally of such efforts to 19 and prompting another reminder Friday that “travel off well-plowed roads is not advised.”
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A Prineville woman’s SUV left Highway 126 east of Powell Butte and struck a power pole and two fences Monday evening, Oregon State Police said. The crash and downed lines closed the highway for about six hours, prompting ODOT to establish a detour around the scene.
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A federal wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Crook County and a sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed a wanted man on a gravel road in Juniper Canyon nearly 11 months ago, saying the deputy failed, for lack of training or other reasons, to try de-escalating the situation with the mentally troubled man.
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Starting next Wednesday, water releases from Prineville Reservoir will be decreased from the current flow rate of about 180 cubic feet per second down to only about 10 cfs as downstream irrigation demands decrease, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said Friday.
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Central Oregon drug agents raided a Prineville couple’s home, indoor growing facility and retail nursery supply store “Herbology” Wednesday, arresting the pair on charges of growing and selling black-market marijuana products outside of the state and from their store, not licensed to sell cannabis.
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A Prineville woman was taken to the hospital and cited for DUII-alcohol after a rollover crash along Northeast Ochoco Highway Thursday evening, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said. A juvenile passenger was unhurt.
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On Tuesday, Gov. Kate Brown announced that 10 Oregon counties had moved from the Extreme Risk category to High Risk, allowing them to resume limited indoor dining, entertainment and recreational activities starting Friday.
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Crook County sheriff’s deputies and the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team, investigating an alleged butane honey (hash) oil, or BHO lab, raided an RV park on Ochoco Reservoir east of Prineville on Thursday and arrested a resident.
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