MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Since 2019, the City of Madras has worked hard to address local housing challenges by updating plans and development regulations, streamlining permitting processes, reduced SDCs, and created new revenue sources to reduce the cost of housing. The city has permitted 330 new homes since 2020. However, only 47% of those new
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MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Central Oregon Community College’s “Growing Together” fundraising campaign has received a major grant of $300,000 from the Roundhouse Foundation to support the college’s long-planned and shovel-ready Madras campus expansion. The significant investment will help COCC’s development of a 24,000-square-foot building designed for early childhood education programs, registered nurse and other health
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A confrontation over an attempted beer theft led to a report of shots fired at a Madras gas station and store this week and the arrest of three suspects, one also accused of shooting another person in the leg two days earlier, police said Saturday.
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MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A fire destroyed a tent and belongings in a homeless camp area in Madras Thursday afternoon, but Jefferson County Fire & EMS crews kept it from spreading to other tents and items, officials said. Firefighters were dispatched around 2:30 p.m. to a reported wildland fire with a propane tank going off
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For close to a decade, Casad Family Farms near Madras has been selling locally raised beef and pork, primarily to area restaurants. Now it’s offering bi-monthly home deliveries of meat from their closed-loop farm, either by subscription box or ala carte.
Continue Reading MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A fire early Friday morning caused about $5,000 damage to a Madras manufactured home but no injuries, according to Jefferson County Fire & EMS, whose crews quickly put out the blaze. The fire was reported around 1:20 a.m. at a home in the Green Spot Mobile Home Park on Highway 97,
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It’s been a busy 2023 for the Madras Police Department, including a new police chief and new officers joining the ranks. And the last week of the year and start of 2024 was no exception.
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MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Senator Ron Wyden came to Central Oregon Wednesday for his first town hall meeting of the new year, held at the Madras Performing Arts Center, with Madras High School students among those in attendance. High School senior Landon Dunten said, “It feels really fun just to have someone that has real sway over our
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Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said Wednesday a missing La Pine man who left a doctor’s appointment Tuesday morning and didn’t return to the memory care facility where he lives has been found safe in Madras.
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Senator Ron Wyden begins his 2024 town hall schedule with seven in-person town halls this week, the first in Madras on Wednesday morning.
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A Warm Springs man arrested Wednesday on manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges in the death of another man at a Madras homeless camp pleaded not guilty Thursday to the sole indicted charge, of assault, as prosecutors review the evidence and decide how to proceed.
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MountainStar Family Relief Nursery says it’s thrilled to invite the community to invest in the long-term stability of its child abuse prevention services in Jefferson County. MountainStar is purchasing its facility in Madras — and has only until January 5th to raise $100,000.
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A telephoned bomb threat involving Madras High School Thursday morning prompted a lockdown, followed by the evacuation of all students, who were bused to the Jefferson County Fairgrounds while law enforcement searched and cleared the school, finding it was safe to return.
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“Today is Giving Tuesday. It’s an incredible time to think about giving back and paying it forward,” Jenny O’Bryan, executive director of the St. Charles Foundation, said Tuesday. “So, we’re really excited to be able to do that today for all of these students who are able to receive this scholarship.”
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Madras has seen a recent string of car thefts, many tied to the cold weather and people warming up cars who leave them unattended, keys in the ignition.
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Thistle & Nest, a Central Oregon-based nonprofit started back in March, has announced the launch of “an ambitious and impactful affordable housing initiative, aimed at addressing the pressing housing crisis in our local communities,” with 160 homes to be made available for purchase in Bend, Madras and Prineville over the next two years.
Continue Reading Central Oregon Community College’s long-planned Madras campus expansion just moved closer to its fundraising goal thanks to a recently awarded $1 million grant from the Oregon-based JTMF Foundation, the school announced Tuesday.
Continue Reading A garage fire did an estimated $124,000 in damage to a home in northeast Madras Thursday night, and the cause is under investigation.
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MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Human Bean of Madras is inviting customers to “drink pink” on Friday, October 20th for the company’s annual Coffee for a Cure breast cancer giveback event. All proceeds on this day at all of The Human Bean locations throughout the country will be donated to local breast cancer foundations. In
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A 40-year-old Madras man who was already in jail on a parole violation charge has been charged with assault in connection with a stabbing last month at a homeless camp in Madras, police said Monday.
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