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When it comes to cannabis legislation, both Measure 91 and the rules lawmakers passed to implement it, nothing is simple. “There is six…

Three million gallons of toxic waste have turned the Animas River in Colorado a mustard yellow color. The sludge leaked from an abandoned mine called…

The Downtown Bend Business Association announced Tuesday its chosen Rod Porsche as its new executive director. Porsche succeeds longtime director…

Are you interested in being an Ambassador for Deschutes County Fair & Rodeo? Can you talk to and work with all ages of people? Can you ride a…

There were no signs of foul play in connection with a body found Friday in a northeast Bend irrigation canal, believed to be a 57-year-old Bend man…

Four people were arrested during a multi-county “saturation patrol” over the weekend at Lake Billy Chinook for operating a boat under the…

Glass growlers are available at many — in fact, most — breweries, restaurants and growler fill stations on the High Desert The latest…

NPG of Oregon Inc., a cluster of television stations that includes NBC, FOX, The CW, and Telemundo affiliates in Bend, Oregon, is accepting…

Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and Reps. Peter DeFazio, Kurt Schrader, Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici asked the Oregon Department of…

After 65 years of serving Crook County, Pioneer Memorial Hospital will close on Sept. 21, the same day the new hospital — St. Charles Prineville…

A passer-by alerted authorities to a deck on fire at a northeast Bend home early Sunday — the city’s second such deck fire this weekend…

Forests worldwide are vulnerable to growing risks of drought- and heat-induced tree mortality and forest die-off because of a rapidly warming Earth,…

Firefighters are making good progress on the 22,500-acre Stouts Creek Fire in southwest Oregon — but a wind shift sent major amounts of smoke…

A fire destroyed a barn more than five miles north of Prineville Sunday afternoon, but the owner was able to get the animals out before it was…

A citizen helping police search for a missing Bend woman with severe dementia found her in apparently good shape Saturday evening, officers said.…

A 34-year-old Powell Butte man escaped serious injuries early Saturday when he tried to avoid a group of deer in the road and his pickup truck hit a…

Smaller brushfires continue to keep fire crews busy on the High Desert, including two on Saturday in Crook County’s Juniper Canyon and earlier…

It was a heated debate; now Senate Bill 941 is about to go into effect. Starting Sunday, all private gun sales require background checks through a…

Three days after a horrific three-car crash on Highway 97 south of Redmond, Oregon State Police said Friday they believe road rage might have been a…

The father of a Bend man who was shot and killed in June 2012 after he was found asleep inside an Awbrey Butte home has filed a lawsuit alleging the…