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With increased fire activity and an influx of visitors coming to Central Oregon for the solar eclipse, public land managers for the Prineville…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed legislation that increases the legal age for using and buying tobacco products from 18…

ENTERPRISE, Ore. (AP) – Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife authorities shot and killed two adult wolves in response to multiple attacks on…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Oregon Secretary of State Dennis Richardson has rejected an initiative petition that sought to make it easier to boost…

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) – A former southern Oregon sheriff convicted of using excessive force against three suspects has quickly completed his…

The Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District has placed a new water tender in service at the Camp Sherman fire station. The water tender is a 2005 model…

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is removing hazard trees on the Deschutes River Trail upriver from Tumalo State Park’s day use area.…

(Update: Rain eases threat, task force call-up canceled) Welcome rain on a new, threatening fire in southwest Oregon means a calling off of outside…

COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) – Police arrested a Coos County sheriff’s deputy accused of beating his wife.   The World newspaper reports…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A Portland industrial shop has been court ordered to pay nearly $300,000 for failing to trim tree branches that blocked a…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Health Authority director has resigned at the request of the governor after a communication plan became public…

The nation is facing a shortage of police officers, and Central Oregon’s largest city is not immune to the problem. With high risks, a…

The number of visitors to Central Oregon’s public lands keeps growing. “We’re estimating this year we could approach 4 million…

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) – State health officials say radioactive plutonium and americium have been found in air samples collected where workers…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Former Oregon receiver Darren Carrington pleaded “no contest” to a misdemeanor charge of driving under the…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – President Donald Trump signed a disaster declaration for damage done by January storms, making federal assistance available…

Each morning, local youth load up work tools into a fleet of passenger vans, trucks, and trailers and travel to work sites up to 50 miles away in…

The Bend Fire Department’s monthly Child Passenger Car Seat Clinic, regularly scheduled on the third Monday of every month, will be rescheduled…

Governor Kate Brown provided notice Tuesday that she will veto two bills and veto four-line item appropriations passed during the 2017 Legislative…

Due to the 5,515-acre Whitewater fire, the Willamette and Deschutes national forests said Tuesday they have closed a portion of the Mount Jefferson…