1,000-acre wildfire east of Madras reaches 60% containment
Firefighters made good progress and reached 60% containment Wednesday of a day-old, 1,000-acre fire on private land about 10 miles east of Madras,…
Continue ReadingFirefighters made good progress and reached 60% containment Wednesday of a day-old, 1,000-acre fire on private land about 10 miles east of Madras,…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Gov. Kate Brown has requested federal agriculture disaster designation for six Oregon counties, including Crook, Deschutes and…
Continue ReadingDue to drying of fire fuels and a forecast of warmer weather, Jefferson County Fire District No. 1 announced Friday it will close burning next…
Continue ReadingA Culver woman pleaded not guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and other charges in the shooting death of her boyfriend, whose body was found in…
Continue ReadingOne day before Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook counties are set to begin Phase 2 reopening, seniors at Crook County High School graduated in style on…
Continue ReadingA Culver woman was arraigned on second-degree murder and other charges Friday, accused of fatally shooting a man whose body was found in a…
Continue ReadingThe American Red Cross says it is in need of more African American blood donors to help treat sickle cell disease.…
Continue ReadingThe super-cell thunderstorm that hit over the weekend toppled many trees, some that damaged homes and communities all across the High Desert.…
Continue ReadingA fierce thunderstorm that caused major damage in the Culver and Metolius areas on Saturday afternoon brought “extreme straight line winds” of up to…
Continue ReadingJefferson County Undersheriff Marc Heckathorn issued an update late Sunday afternoon of information related to the severe storm that caused…
Continue ReadingThe Jefferson County Business Task Force has awarded a total of $35,000 in grants to 15 small businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19…
Continue ReadingA rapid response team of local, state and federal agencies and the Warm Springs tribes recently held a tabletop exercise in the event invasive…
Continue ReadingMADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ_ — Made up of 200 seniors, the Madras High School and Bridges High School graduating classes will take the stage in a…
Continue ReadingA long-time tribal leader on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation who also served in a top Interior Department position has died of natural causes,…
Continue ReadingThe graduation ceremony for the Madras and Bridges High School seniors is scheduled for Saturday, June 13th at Madras High School, officials said…
Continue ReadingWhile most of Oregon gets a green — well, yellow — light to start resuming limited business and other activities, there’s word that two summer…
Continue ReadingSeveral people of interest and witnesses are being interviewed, nearly a week after unidentified human remains were found at a property southwest of…
Continue ReadingA Warm Springs woman was injured Wednesday morning when she drove around a road barrier west of Madras and slammed head-on into concrete barriers…
Continue ReadingThe Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office on Monday identified a Mother’s Day drowning victim at Scout Lake northwest of Sisters as a Redmond woman who…
Continue ReadingA man who accidentally struck himself in the leg with a machete while hiking in the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness Area Saturday evening was rescued in a…
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