Oregon voters have narrowly passed measures that would strengthen gun laws and mandate health care as a human right, The Associated Press reported…
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Sisters Ranger District fire specialists are conducting brush removal work with Forest Service staff and contractors to mow about 3,300 acres of…
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The Ochoco National Forest said Thursday it has released the draft Environmental Assessment for the Lemon Gulch Trails Project. The proposal –…
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Deschutes County Sheriff’s Street Crimes Unit detectives seized methamphetamine, a stolen handgun and about $3,500 in cash when they pulled over a…
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The city of Bend is considering and seeking public input on removing all minimum parking requirements for new developments under a state land-use…
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Bend city councilors met Wednesday night with a packed agenda, starting off with Measure 114’s updates and implications, later holding a public…
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Freezing fog made for slick roads across much of the High Desert Thursday morning, prompting several crashes and school closures in Jefferson County,…
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A 75-year-old Prineville man was killed Wednesday evening when his pickup truck crossed the center line of US Highway 97 north of Madras and collided…
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A second Warm Springs teen has died following a head-on crash last week involving a passing vehicle on U.S. Highway 26 north of Madras that also…
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Drivers may have noticed a recent change at more than a dozen school speed zones around Bend — a shift from a flat 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. 20 mph speed…
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By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a California river and…
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A mixed verdict in the closely watched murder trial of Ian Cranston in the September 2021 shooting death of Barry Washington Jr. was returned by the…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Signs of the housing crisis in Oregon are widespread: cluttered tent encampments in city…
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When a retired truck driver purchased $10 in Powerball tickets on a whim during the record jackpot run-up, little did he know he would be one…
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Oregon State Police said Wednesday they are “aware that the public has many questions regarding Ballot Measure 114” and its impact on gun purchases…
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The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is offering free well water testing in southern Deschutes County as part of a groundwater quality…
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Oregon’s unemployment rate rose to 4.1% in October from 3.8% in September and was above the recent low of 3.5% reached in May, June and July, the…
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Central Oregon drug agents arrested a suspected cocaine trafficker in a northeast Bend traffic stop Tuesday evening and conducted a raid on his…
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Think Wild, a Bend wildlife rehabilitation hospital, says a tundra swan now in their care was lucky to survive a casualty event that killed many…
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A Deschutes County jury on Wednesday acquitted Ian Cranston on a second-degree murder charge in the September 2021 shooting death of Barry Washington…
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