SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Gov. Kate Brown has requested federal agriculture disaster designation for six Oregon counties, including Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson, due to damaging thunderstorms that hit the area on May 30. In a letter sent Monday to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Purdue, Brown noted that Oregon “farmers and ranchers are experiencing harships stemming
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Due to drying of fire fuels and a forecast of warmer weather, Jefferson County Fire District No. 1 announced Friday it will close burning next Monday.
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A 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 an unplugged refrigerator just over a month ago.
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One day before Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook counties are set to begin Phase 2 reopening, seniors at Crook County High School graduated in style on Friday with a special parade all their own. Meanwhile, places like Bend’s Lava Lanes were set to reopen with new layouts and requirements to meet physical distancing and public health
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A Culver woman was arraigned on second-degree murder and other charges Friday, accused of fatally shooting a man whose body was found in a refrigerator on property southwest of Madras nearly a month ago.
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The American Red Cross says it is in need of more African American blood donors to help treat sickle cell disease.
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The super-cell thunderstorm that hit over the weekend toppled many trees, some that damaged homes and communities all across the High Desert.
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A fierce thunderstorm that caused major damage in the Culver and Metolius areas on Saturday afternoon brought “extreme straight line winds” of up to 100 mph, but a National Weather Service survey team said Monday it did not find evidence of a tornado.
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Jefferson County Undersheriff Marc Heckathorn issued an update late Sunday afternoon of information related to the severe storm that caused significant damage over much of the county on Saturday,
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The Jefferson County Business Task Force has awarded a total of $35,000 in grants to 15 small businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A rapid response team of local, state and federal agencies and the Warm Springs tribes recently held a tabletop exercise in the event invasive mussels are found, in this scenario in a visiting boat at Lake Billy Chinook,
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MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ_ — Made up of 200 seniors, the Madras High School and Bridges High School graduating classes will take the stage in a non-traditional fashion on Saturday, June 13th at Madras High School. The graduates will be broken into eight groups, in alphabetical order. Beginning at 9 a.m., each group will have a
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A long-time tribal leader on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation who also served in a top Interior Department position has died of natural causes, officials said.
Continue Reading The graduation ceremony for the Madras and Bridges High School seniors is scheduled for Saturday, June 13th at Madras High School, officials said Thursday.
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While most of Oregon gets a green — well, yellow — light to start resuming limited business and other activities, there’s word that two summer traditions — Bend’s Fourth of July fireworks from atop Pilot Butte and the Airshow of the Cascades at Madras — are still on track.
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Several people of interest and witnesses are being interviewed, nearly a week after unidentified human remains were found at a property southwest of Madras, Jefferson County Sheriff Jim Adkins said Wednesday.
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A Warm Springs woman was injured Wednesday morning when she drove around a road barrier west of Madras and slammed head-on into concrete barriers blocking the road, Jefferson County Sheriff Jim Adkins said.
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The 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 most recently taught at the Warm Springs K-8 Academy after more than a decade with Redmond schools.
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A 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 three-hour operation, Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies said.
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A fire caused by an unattended open burn destroyed a shop and damaged a grain silo and wood storage shed southwest of Culver Sunday afternoon, officials said.
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