PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Have you ever wanted to be part of a SWAT Team? Or fingerprint a suspect? Or learn how to catch a cyber-criminal? Then consider participating in the FBI Teen Academy. The FBI Teen Academy program provides an excellent opportunity for rising high school juniors and seniors to learn about exciting careers
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BROOKINGS, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a southern Oregon city can’t limit a local church’s homeless meal services. U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Clarke found that an ordinance passed by the small city of Brookings, on the southern Oregon coast, violated the religious freedom rights of St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, KGW reported.
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One week after voting to find a new location for a sex offender transitional housing program within a year, Deschutes County commissioners voted, again 2-1, on Wednesday to terminate the current provider’s contract and close the controversial SE Bend triplex location opened a few months ago.
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Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley say they support the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s moves to address concerns raised by Crook County commissioners and residents regarding Knife River’s wastewater permit for a mine near Prineville and possible groundwater contamination.
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The city of Bend expressed dismay Thursday at a spate of racist comments voiced by anonymous online visitors to a meeting of the city’s Human Rights & Equity Commission and said they will look for ways to allow public input “in a meaningful and constructive way.”
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Transportation said Thursday it shifted its second in a series of weekend blasting operations for the Bend North Corridor Project to Saturday due to Easter weekend. On Saturday March 30, crews will complete another blast of hard basalt along U.S. Highway 97 near Empire Avenue. This blast
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Deschutes County code enforcers already have their hands full with dozens of RVs and other illegal dwellings in rural areas. But a new state law’s chance to add badly needed housing and permit RVs as legal rural rentals – if they meet requirements – is still too good to pass up,
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation has reached a settlement agreement in principle with a cryptocurrency asset platform for violating state securities regulations. The group of affiliated companies – Plutus Financial Holdings Inc., Plutus Financial Inc., Plutus Lending LLC and Abra Boost LLC – offered and sold interest-bearing cryptocurrency depository products
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ)– The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division (Oregon OSHA) announced Wednesday it has fined a Bend construction company $103,438 for repeatedly violating a requirement to provide protective systems to safeguard workers from fall hazards that could seriously injure or kill them. The division cited Sky Ridge Construction LLC following an inspection that
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As spring arrives, it’s time to remember that studded tires must be removed by Sunday, March 31. ODOT said Tuesday that long-term weather forecasts this year do not support an extension of the studded tire season.
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Wednesday they secured $225 million in investments for 139 essential community-initiated projects across Oregon – 10 of those topping $26 million in Central Oregon – in the two fiscal year 2024 government funding packages that recently cleared Congress and were signed into law by President Biden.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Governor Tina Kotek signed Senate Bill 1596, Oregon’s Right to Repair reforms, into law on Wednesday, something long sought by consumer advocates here and in other states around the country. “This is a huge win for Oregon consumers and the Right to Repair movement as a whole,” said Senator Janeen Sollman (D –
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — On Tuesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over the legality of current dispensing of the abortion medication mifepristone, the Oregon Health Authority launched an ‘Abortion Access in Oregon’ website that was criticized by Oregon Right to Life, while Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum attended a rally on the high court’s
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The public restroom has been closed at Miller’s Landing Park in northwest Bend pending repairs after a destructive arson fire and damaging vandalism over the weekend, including vulgar and racist graffiti on the walls, authorities said.
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“A lot of Oregonians think D.C. might as well be Mars, for all the connection it has to them,” Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Monday evening on one of his frequent visits to NewsChannel 21, but the first to our revamped studios.
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Bend’s Chamber of Commerce is looking at more ways to bring more affordable housing to Bend.
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On Tuesday, the city of Bend added new stop signs at O.B. Riley Road at the Crusher Avenue and Empire Avenue intersection. Because of increasing traffic volume, the city says the intersection now qualifies for an all-way-stop configuration.
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(Update: Adding photo, burn takes place) PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) -— Firefighters from the Ochoco National Forest ignited piles of woody debris at Skull Hollow Campground on the Crooked River National Grassland on Tuesday, officials said. The piles of woody debris are leftover brush, limbs and small diameter juniper that were removed in the construction of
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — The Department of the Interior and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announced Tuesday $11.8 million for 10 projects in seven states — including two in Central Oregon — that will help restore habitat connectivity and secure key migration corridors for wildlife in the American West. One of the pair of grrants, each nearly $200,000, will go
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased in all three Central Oregon counties, but not by very much, the Oregon Employment Department reported Tuesday. In February, total nonfarm employment decreased in both Crook and Jefferson counties but increased in Deschutes County. Here’s the monthly report: Crook County: The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate
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