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The Nature of Words is pleased to announce the slate of guest authors who will be featured during the 2012 literary festival. The lineup includes…

Oregon State Police said Thursday their preliminary information indicates no known reported traffic fatalities occurred in the state over the 30-hour…

Bend water and sewer utility rates rose July 1, as they have each summer in recent years, to help pay for needed improvements to both systems, the…

Oregon ranks 45th in the nation when it comes to funding higher education, according to report in the Oregonian. Karnopp Petersen has been…

The Smith Rock Sunrise Summer Classic Half Marathon is pleased to announce that twenty one or more Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast…

Deschutes National Forest Supervisor John Allen announced Thursday a new district ranger for the Bend-Ft. Rock Ranger District. Kevin Larkin,…

As predictable as the colorful, sparkling skies over Pilot Butte on Fourth of July night were the kennels full of frightened, barking dogs at the…

After months of debate and public input, the Bend Park and Rec Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to place a $29 million bond on the November…

The Oregon Health Authority has put Pacific Source Community Solutions in charge of the region’s first CCO, or Community Care Organization. The…

Despite the well-known challenges Bend has faced in seeking to escape from a deep recession after years of sizzling growth, the city is still growing…

Do you know an individual, family, business or organization, who has made a positive impact on the lives of fair goers or an outstanding contribution…

More than 50 donors have put Oregon State University-Cascades $1.575 million closer to becoming a comprehensive, four-year branch campus of OSU with…

Ed Keith has been hired as the new Deschutes County forester and will start on Monday, July 16. Keith will replace County Forester and Project…

Two Bend women have been arrested in a drug raid on a northeast Bend motel that turned up a small amount of methamphetamine and other evidence,…

Central Oregon boasts about its sunny weather. But it also has one of the highest rates of new melanoma diagnoses in the country. The most deadly…

Jefferson County firefighters corralled a brushfire that broke out below a train trestle off Canyon Drive in Madras Monday afternoon. Interim…

The Mountain View Hospital said Monday it has installed a new Siemens SOMATOM Definition AS, 64-slice CT unit in the hospital’s Medical Imaging…

Robbie Kirzy from Kirzy’s Place Equine Rescue and Rehabilitation took in 37 neglected horses in May. But she soon found out it was too much to…

BendFilm has garnered a clever way to sponsor its film awards thanks to the innovative thinking of Pamela Hulse Andrews, CEO/Founder of Cascade…

The Oregon State Public Health Lab has confirmed that three Central Oregon residents who were hospitalized contracted botulism at a private barbecue,…