BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Beginning Wednesday, personal and commercial use firewood collection season will resume on the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests and Crooked River National Grassland. Firewood season runs through Nov. 30. The public should note this is only for the National Forest system lands and does not include permits for firewood cutting on
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Sixteen Oregon Republican state senators, representatives and candidates are touring the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona this week with the Border Security Alliance and meet with local officials to discuss issues related to human trafficking and the surge in shipments of deadly fentanyl.
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New Oregon Health Authority Director Dr. Sejal Hathi’s regional tour of Central Oregon health care organizations and facilities — her fifth around the state — begins Monday.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Pacific Northwest Region of the USDA Forest Service is actively seeking nominations for the regional Recreation Resource Advisory Committee. This committee will play a crucial role in shaping the future of recreation fee programs on federal lands in Oregon and Washington. The role of the Pacific Northwest Region RRAC will be to
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The winner of Oregon’s record-breaking $1.326 billion Powerball jackpot is in fact three winners — a husband and wife and their friend, who will split the prize, KGW reported Monday.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Senator Jeff Merkley held two town halls, in Bend and Madras Sunday to hear from the communities on a variety of issues. The Bend town hall was held at Central Oregon Community College. People asked the senator questions when their ticket number was called. The public engaged in conversation with the senator on topics such
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BOARDMAN, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) – It’s been more than 30 years since it was first learned that there were problems with toxic chemicals called nitrates seeping into the drinking water in Morrow and Umatilla counties. And since then, the problem has only gotten worse. On Wednesday, high-level officials from the state and federal governments — Gov. Tina Kotek
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Housing and Community Services, in partnership with Neighborhood Partnerships, this week announced $11.5 million in funding to support the Individual Development Account Initiative statewide. An Individual Development Account (IDA) is a matched savings account, where the money participants save is multiplied up to five times by the program. As Oregonians
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More than 1 million people keep Oregon Health Plan benefits due to efforts to expand coverage options SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — With more than 90 percent of the state’s 1.5 million renewals complete, more than 4 out of 5 Oregonians are keeping their Oregon Health Plan or other Medicaid benefits. During the COVID-19 Public Health
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued a statement this week after the Biden administration finalized several rules aimed at improving health care for Americans in nursing homes, those receiving home and community-based services through Medicaid, as well as updates to Medicaid-managed care to strengthen health services covered by these plans:
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Deschutes Public Library announced Friday that three staff members were honored with awards for their exceptional service and leadership. Emily O’Neal, Technical Services Manager, was awarded the prestigious Librarian of the Year award by the Oregon Library Association. Community Librarian Liisa Sjoblom received the OLA President’s Award, and Community Librarian Roxanne
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SUNRIVER, Ore. (KTVZ) — For the next several days, Central Oregon Fire Management Service is once again partnering with structural firefighting departments around the region to provide an immersive scenario-based wildland firefighting program designed to increase firefighters’ understanding of wildland firefighting suppression tactics, mutual aid and the dynamics of interagency response in an emerging wildfire
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Deschutes County and the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council Skills Lab are sharing the wonder and life lessons that gardening brings with youth residing at the county’s Juvenile Community Justice Facility.
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Deschutes County commissioners voted unanimously this week to approve a new homeless camp eviction policy and procedure for county-owned lands, although that process is still on hold while the county works to create a managed camp for them to be relocated to.
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Vegetation management will begin next Wednesday, May 1 on about 3.5 miles of existing power line along Forest Service Road 2058, also known as North Pine Street, on the Sisters Ranger District. This section of road connects the City of Sisters with Indian Ford Road to the north.
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The blast scheduled for this weekend along U.S. Highway 97 for the Bend North Corridor project — originally moved back a week, to May 4 — has again been rescheduled, moving it up to next Tuesday night, April 30, ODOT said Friday.
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., issued the following statement Friday after the Federal Communications Commission voted to approve its rule reclassifying broadband as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act and reinstating net neutrality protections: “Net neutrality is simple; it’s about nondiscrimination. Net neutrality ensures
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Oregon’s Department of Justice just launched a “You Belong.” Campaign after becoming the first state in the nation to provide a hotline for those affected by a bias-related crime. That greater awareness and reporting tool likely plays a major factor in a significant rise in reports of such incidents in recent years, including in Bend-La Pine Schools.
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REEDSPORT, Ore. (KTVZ) — Nearly 18,000 young salmon died after a vandal poured bleach into a Douglas County fish hatchery tank on Monday, according to law enforcement authorities. What may have started as vandalism evolved into poaching with the illegal killing of fish in one of four tanks at the Gardiner, Reedsport, and Winchester Bay
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SEATTLE (KTVZ) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that the Oregon Department of Energy has been selected to receive $86.6 million through the Solar for All grant competition to develop long-lasting solar programs that enable low-income and disadvantaged communities to deploy and benefit from distributed residential solar. This award is part of the
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