June is International Pollinator Month, bringing attention to the importance of pollinators and plants. To celebrate, Pollinator Pathway Bend decided to host a pair of garden tours Sunday of their demonstration gardens. One was at the Al Moody Garden, the other at Franklin’s Corner.
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By MATTHEW BROWN and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press COLUMBUS, Mont. (AP) — A bridge that crosses the Yellowstone River in Montana collapsed early Saturday, plunging portions of a freight train carrying hazardous materials into the rushing water below. The train cars were carrying hot asphalt and molten sulfur, Stillwater County Disaster and Emergency Services said.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s most populous county is suing more than a dozen large fossil fuel companies to recover costs related to extreme weather events linked to climate change. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Multnomah County Circuit Court alleges the combined carbon pollution the companies emitted was a substantial factor in causing and exacerbating
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — New routes for biking or walking in Bend were a hot topic for Bend city councilors this week. The project is now being called the cross-town bikeways, instead of key routes. The name change is aimed at clearing up any confusion with other routes in Bend. “No matter your your age or your ability, this is going to be
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A week ago, Bend wildlife center Think Wild received a call about two nestling American Kestrels who had accidentally been transported with a bale of hay from Burns to a farm in Tumalo. The mother was not present, so the finder brought the two nestlings to Think Wild for care. Upon
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The city of Bend is reminding home sellers and buyers that the city’s new Home Energy Score Program goes into effect on Saturday, July 1. Under the new program, homes listed for sale in Bend must obtain a Home Energy Score from a state-licensed Home Energy Assessor and include it on
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury verdict that found an Oregon power company liable for devastating wildfires — and potentially billions of dollars in damages — is highlighting the legal and financial risks utilities take if they fail to take proper precautions in a hotter, drier climate. Utilities,
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CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Who doesn’t like a big fish story? This one is about a sturgeon in a pond at Bonneville Fish Hatchery. Herman the Sturgeon is kind of a big deal in Oregon: a white sturgeon with a colorful history who happens to be celebrating his 89th birthday on Saturday, June 24.
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A male yearling wolf from the Indigo Pack who had lost its wariness of humans was struck by a vehicle and killed Tuesday on state Highway 138 near Lemolo Lake in southern Oregon, authorities said.
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Newly planted vegetation on coastal sand dunes can accelerate erosion from extreme waves, a study involving researchers from the Oregon State University College of Engineering suggests.
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The Central Oregon Solar Car Team is a group of high schoolers who enjoy the challenge of building and racing solar-powered cars.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Environmental Center’s Rethink Waste Project offers three opportunities throughout the year to apply for the Community Innovation Fund, and just announced its five spring recipients. CIF is a funding program that supports individuals, businesses, and community organizations throughout Deschutes County advance projects that aim to reduce, reuse, recycle, compost waste.
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The Oregon Department of Energy recently awarded Deschutes Public Library a $1 million grant for construction of a powerful solar photovoltaic system at the planned Stevens Ranch Library in southeast Bend.
Continue ReadingA look out the window or a walk through a park or neighborhood on many smoky summer days in recent years tell Central Oregonians what the latest data confirms: Those eye-watering conditions are becoming the “new summer normal” of sorts in the region and other areas of the state, as wildfires worsen.
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An Oregon State University researcher has been awarded a three-year, $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to lead a study about the movement of fish stocks due to changing climate conditions and the potential geopolitical tensions that could result from that shift.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Microscopic algae that corals need for survival harbor a common and possibly disease-causing virus in their genetic material, an international collaboration spearheaded by an Oregon State University researcher has found. The study, co-led by researchers in the OSU College of Science, sheds new light on the threats faced by coral reefs,
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By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press A federal judge has yanked approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho, saying federal land managers in the Trump administration didn’t in part properly consider the mine’s impact on sage grouse, a bird species that has seen an 80% decline in population since 1965. U.S. District Judge B.
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The Deschutes and Willamette National Forests want to remind the public that the Central Cascades Wilderness Permit System goes into effect Thursday, June 15 and runs through October 15.
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The Deschutes National Forest on Monday invited “scoping comments” on the Deschutes Fuels Maintenance Treatments Project, plans to conduct new rounds of prescribed burns, thinning and other actions on 275,000 acres treated over the past 23 years across the forest.
Continue Reading EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge ruled on Thursday that a lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists can proceed to trial years after they first filed the lawsuit in an attempt to hold the nation’s leadership accountable for its role in climate change. U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the plaintiffs
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