Leaders on the Bend-La Pine School Board fielded questions on bus driver shortages, graduation ceremonies, racial issues and school curriculum during a listening session Thursday evening at Caldera High School.
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Twin Lakes Resort staff are cutting, moving and unpacking everything they need to open for the start of fishing season Friday.
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A 30-foot hole is what’s left after burrowing rodents — rockchucks, to be specific — caused a breach in an irrigation canal south of Redmond Wednesday night that sent floodwaters across fields, closed Young Avenue, and prompted emergency alerts and sandbagging efforts to protect some properties, officials said.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Commercial businesses in Deschutes County will have access to financing for clean energy improvements by late summer, supporters of the newly approved program say. County commissioners on Wednesday unanimously voted to approve a Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (CPACE) Ordinance, according to the nonprofit 350 Deschutes, whose news release continues below:
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A woman who accidentally hit the gas crashed her SUV into the wall of the post office at the Sunriver Marketplace on Cottonwood Road Wednesday afternoon, but fortunately no injuries were reported.
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After a three-year hiatus, the Woodward Peace Park Championships return this week.
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Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Wednesday $11.67 million in federal funding headed to five collaborative forestry projects around Oregon, including a new project in the Rogue River basin and funding to keep the Deschutes Forest Collaborative Project’s decade of projects going for three more years.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Take the feeling of surprise, add a dash of admiration, fold in inexplicable magic and you have created the sentiment of wonder. Get curious this month as Deschutes Public Library investigates “Know Wonder.” Hear from experts on how to rethink plastic waste and develop a game plan for disaster preparedness. Explore
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A Deschutes County hearings officer heard testimony Tuesday from many residents and a land-use watchdog group opposed to a proposal to rezone 710 acres west of Terrebonne from farmland to rural residential that would allow about 70 homes on the property.
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Recent late-season storms have brought much-needed snow to the Deschutes National Forest’s upper elevations. However, Forest Service officials said Tuesday the heavy snowfall has also affected the ability to prepare some campgrounds to reopen in time for the start of fishing seeason.
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Deschutes County Commissioner Tony DeBone is in the midst of his fourth campaign for the board and faces a Republican primary challenger, Scott Stuart, on the May ballot.
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A 70-year-old man who disappeared from his camp on China Hat Road south of Bend, prompting a public request for information, has been found deceased, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said Sunday, adding that it was not considered a suspicious death.
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Here’s Deschutes County’s road construction update for the week of April 17-23: US 20: Ward-Hamby Road Intersection Project (Bend Area) – Ward Road is closed between US 20 and Bear Creek Road as part of the ODOT US 20 Ward/Hamby roundabout project. Hamby Road also remains closed between US 20 and Neff Road. Hamby Road is closed to
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A lengthy investigation by Deschutes County’s Illegal Marijuana Enforcement Team concluded Wednesday morning with a raid on a large-scale indoor marijuana grow southeast of La Pine, where they found and seized over 2,800 plants, $350,000 in cash and 14 guns and arrested seven people.
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A Redmond man allegedly driving drunk fled a Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy trying to pull him over at a mobile home park west of Redmond Tuesday night, nearly striking the deputy and prompting a brief pursuit before he was stopped by a deputy’s patrol car and arrested at the end of Lower Bridge Road, deputies said
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced on Monday 10 initial landscapes to receive $131 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law investment to begin implementation of the Wildfire Crisis Strategy in 2022, including more than $41 million over three years for the Deschutes National Forest and portions of the Crooked River National Grassland.
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Bend police and Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies pursued and tried to pull over a suspected drunken driver on Highway 97 early Tuesday morning, but it took “Stop Sticks,” a pursuit intervention tactic and the bite of DCSO K-9 Ronin to stop and arrest the combative Salem man.
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With the clearing of various campsites around Bend, several houseless people are congregating in less restricted areas, including U.S. Forest Service land near China Hat Road south of Bend.
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The Oregon Department of State Lands has extended until July 1 the public comment period on the potential sale of the 400-acre Cline Buttes Tract to the controversial Thornburgh Resort west of Redmond, saying it needs more time to complete its appraisal of the property, and now expects a Land Board decision no earlier than August.
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Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies called to a pickup fire Saturday off China Hat Road south of Bend were unable to get it out with extinguishers, so they towed it away to a safer spot, away from an occupied camp and some trees.
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