The Deschutes National Forest on Monday reduced the temporary emergency fire closure area on the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District for the Bachelor Complex, which burned over 15,000 acres this summer.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A thin coat of snow fell over much of the Bend area and higher elevations late Sunday to begin what NewsChannel 21 Chief Meteorologist John Carroll calls an “aggressive … wet and wintry week” of rain, snow and high winds. Bend got about a half-inch of snow after dark, coating roads,
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Mt. Bachelor pass-holders lined up to party on the snowy slopes Friday for their own early chance to check out all the fresh powder at the resort’s earliest opening since 1998.
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Homeless people living in Bend are preparing as best they can as temperatures drop and snow is building in the mountains. Those living along China Hat Road south of town are expecting another difficult winter, and the weather-related dangers are ever-present.
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The FBI confirmed Friday it’s investigating bomb threats emailed to election offices across Oregon, including Deschutes County, a week ago, three days after the general election. It also said that “none of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far.”
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Deschutes County Road Department crews swung the gates and closed the Cascade Lakes Highway and Paulina Lake Road for the winter on Thursday. The roads will remain closed until late spring, after crews are able remove the accumulated snow. County road crews provide maintenance on both roadways. The snow accumulation at
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(Update: Adding video, comments from summit participants, consultants) SUNRIVER, Ore. (KTVZ) — Southern Deschutes County community members, nonprofits and government agencies met Thursday in Sunriver for the Newberry Regional Partnership’s Action Summit to discuss strategies and solutions to issues in an area they say is much different than most of the county. “It is a
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Democrat Janelle Bynum has flipped Oregon’s 5th Congressional District and will become the state’s first Black member of Congress, The Associated Press reported Thursday as it called the close race nine days after the election, prompting Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to concede. Bynum, a state representative who was backed and funded
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(update: adding video, La Pine mayor tables homeless-wildfires agenda item to 2025) La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) – “The city, after speaking with all of the councilors, has come to the consensus that it really doesn’t feel comfortable discussing the homeless collaboration at this time. We’d like to table this,” La Pine Mayor Daniel Richer told
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(Update: Adding video, comments from coalition, sheriff’s office) LA PINE, Ore. (KTVZ)— Despite still being six months from Oregon’s next wildfire season, the Newberry Regional Partnership and government agencies have banded together to reduce wildfire risk in La Pine. “We can’t let a day go by that we’re not working on this and trying to
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More than 121,000 Deschutes County mail ballots were returned to the clerk’s office for last week’s election, a turnout of about 75%. Voters with contested ballots for variety of reasons are being notified and have a period of time to fix them.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The trial of a Portland man accused of plotting a mass shooting at a Smith Rock climbing event last year has been delayed until August 2025 at the request of Samson Garner’s defense attorneys, who recently received a large amount of evidence in the case. That will be nearly two years
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Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched around noon Tuesday to state and county offices at 1300 NW Wall Street on a report of a suspicious package, prompting a heavy law enforcement presence and area road closures. But it turned out to be only hygiene products.
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Oregon State Police on Tuesday released the identity of a 67-year-old Redmond man who was killed last week in the head-on collision of his motorcycle and a pickup truck on U.S. Highway 20 about 20 miles east of Bend.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Due to this week’s winter weather forecast, the Deschutes County Road Department will close Cascade Lakes Highway and Paulina Lake Road at 7 a.m. on Thursday, which is earlier than previously announced. The department had planned on a Tuesday, Nov.19 winter closure of the high-elevation forest roadways. The county provides maintenance
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Firefighters across the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District plan to conduct up to 217 acres of pile burning operations west of Phil’s Trailhead and south of Skyliners Road this week. Additional ignitions are also slated for the Wanoga Butte and Bearwallow Butte areas. If conditions are favorable, firefighters will conduct ignitions starting
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Nature is all around, and with a forest surrounding Sunriver, it’s only natural to have to wait for a herd of elk to move along, as Paul Evenson shared with us Sunday. Share your own special sights from the Share tab.
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With the last ballots being counted, Central Oregonians, including representatives of the two major political parties, have been sharing their reactions to the local, state and federal election results.
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A Bend business owner’s idea to expand the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners from three to five members first cleared the petition signature-gathering hurdle – then, on Tuesday night, a majority of voters agreed it was a good idea.
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A new sheriff has been elected for the first time in a decade in Deschutes County. Deschutes County sheriff’s Sergeant Kent Vander Kamp claimed victory Wednesday after defeating Captain William Bailey in the hotly contested race by nearly 20,000 votes.
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