The Juniper Creek Fire west of Lake Billy Chinook is now 90% contained, officials said Wednesday as miles of fire hose were rolled up, firefighter…
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Deschutes National Forest field rangers found seven fire pits dug into the shoreline of Elk Lake on Tuesday, along with evidence of recent…
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Due to several seasons of low water at Crescent Lake, the Crescent Ranger District said Wednesday it won’t move forward with construction of a…
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Deschutes County commissioners got a presentation Wednesday on the declining mule deer population from an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife…
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Natural disasters have battered the West this season, from hurricanes and tropical storms to large wildfires, even earthquakes. This month alone has…
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BASX Solutions, which has quickly grown to become Redmond’s largest private employer in Redmond and one of the biggest in Central Oregon, held a…
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Winds cleared out the dense smoke and allowed air operations to resume on the now over 13,000-acre Lookout Fire north of McKenzie Bridge on the…
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Health care facilities in Oregon will be allowed to return amputated body parts to patients for cultural, spiritual or…
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An Army National Guard helicopter crew located the remains of a 66-year-old St. Helens man who was reported overdue while on an intended one-day…
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The Redmond School District is holding a two-day teacher orientation this week for new hires, two weeks ahead of the first day of school.…
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On Aug. 24, 1933, the skies west of Portland were darkened by an enormous smoke column more than 40,000 feet high as a fire that had started in the…
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RootedHomes says it will be expanding its affordable housing communities across Central Oregon, starting in Redmond. The new community will include…
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Twenty years ago this week, President George W. Bush paid a visit to Central Oregon – the first sitting president to do so – to promote his…
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U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced Tuesday the first snowboard title partnership in history with Hydro Flask, a Bend-based, award-winning leader in…
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A Deschutes County woman has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine and fentanyl to…
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A 33-year-old Bend man was killed in the rollover crash of his pickup truck early Tuesday morning on the Cascade Lakes National Scenic Byway south of…
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The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued an air quality advisory Tuesday “until further notice” for Deschutes, Jackson and Josephine…
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After several months of declines, seasonally adjusted unemployment rates across Central Oregon saw little to no change in July, with marginal…
Continue ReadingBy LISA BAUMANN Associated Press A second person has died in wildfires in eastern Washington state that ignited on Friday, burning hundreds of…
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An 18-year-old Redmond resident who along with his father is charged with murder in the June 26 drive-by fatal shooting of Esaui “Sy” Mutchler,…
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