La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) — As communities across the country continue to face unprecedented circumstances in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Farmers Insurance® is granting donations to nonprofits directly related to COVID-19 relief efforts, as nominated by Farmers® agents and district managers across the country. As millions of people do their part to slow the spread of
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Graduation is right around the corner, but instead of having an opportunity to walk across the stage to get their diploma, Bend-La Pine Schools seniors will have a virtual ceremony, due to COVID-19.
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Even with the stay at home order in place, the Deschutes National Forest says illegal dumping continues to be a problem, as a La Pine family recently found.
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Bend-La Pine Schools is adding two new school sites – for a total of 10 school locations – to its free Grab and Go meal locations beginning Monday.
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Bend-La Pine Schools have begun taking preventative measures to fight off the potentially deadly novel coronavirus.
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An escaped debris burn, fanned by gusty winds, jumped the Little Deschutes River late Saturday afternoon, got to within about 20 yards of two La Pine homes and prompted alert calls to residents and the precautionary call-out of a regional structural protection task force, an official said.
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La Pine firefighters quickly doused a fire on a wood shake roof on Wednesday, at the same home where they stopped a similar roof fire nearly eight years ago, an official said.
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Bend-La Pine Schools officials held a meeting Tuesday evening at La Pine High School to tell parents and others the plans for use of $18 million in new state Student Success Act business tax funding due this year.
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Bend-La Pine Schools Superintendent Shay Mikalson announced Tuesday that Matt Montgomery has been selected to serve as the new principal at La Pine Middle School.
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Michael Mathias, the owner of La Pine’s newest restaurant, Coach’s Drive In, also coaches the La Pine High junior varsity basketball team and says a portion of the proceeds will go toward the school’s booster club. He also offers student discounts at the place, which has been very popular in its opening days.
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A La Pine woman who called dispatchers to say her ex-boyfriend set a fire that destroyed her fifth-wheel travel trailer early Monday morning was arrested on arson and other charges after investigators determined she’d set the fire herself, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said.
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According to the Central Oregon Association of Realtors, Bend home sales prices averaged about $450,000 at the end of 2019.
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Four La Pine men — two drivers and two passengers — were arrested by citation Thursday evening after a Highway 97 road rage incident led to a brief fight and one driver stabbing the hood of another’s car as it struck him, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said.
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Two family members suffered smoke inhalation Tuesday evening when fire broke out in a La Pine detached garage and they tried to find the source and get two vehicles out, fire officials said.
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La Pine City Councilor Mike Shields has appealed an $18,000 fine by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality for having an unpermitted solid waste disposal site at his Russell Road property, where wood waste burned for several months last year.
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Lucy, a 5-year-old golden retriever, had better days than Friday, when she ended up clinging to the icy banks of the Little Deschutes River in La Pine.
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Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel ruled Friday a sheriff’s deputy was legally justified in returning gunfire at a drunken driving suspect who fired several shots at another deputy during a Christmas night traffic stop in La Pine. A total of 15 shots were exchanged, but no one was injured.
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The La Pine DMV office lease has been extended for two more years as the state continues to search for a new location in the area, the Oregon DMV said Tuesday.
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Two juveniles on the run after escaping from a Woodburn youth detention facility were arrested by pursuing law enforcement south of La Pine Friday after one allegedly twice crashed a stolen car into the back of another car, Oregon State Police said.
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More than 30 Oregon state parks were free to the public Wednesday on the annual New Year’s First Day Hikes. Participating parks included the La Pine and Smith Rock state parks.
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