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Votes for the Bend gas tax will be counted in just one week. On Monday night, Bend Mayor Jim Clinton City Councilor Victor Chudowsky squared off over…

Bend Mayor Jim Clinton, a leading supporter of the city’s 5-cent gas tax ballot measure, and opposing City Councilor Victor Chudowsky squared…

Monday’s holdup at the northeast Bend branch of Columbia Bank did not catch many business owners in the area by surprise. “We know what…

A gunman wearing a ski mask robbed the Columbia Bank on Northeast Third Street in Bend Monday morning and fled, prompting a major manhunt in the area…

A tip that a Stockton, Calif., resident was traveling to the Bend area to sell large amounts of heroin late last week led to the arrest of that…

As local Girl Scouts practice people skills, money management and business ethics at cookie booths throughout the region, local chefs are putting the…

Oregon’s known wolf population continued to grow in 2015, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reported Monday.The minimum Oregon wolf…

High school and middle school girls in South County are invited to attend the 10 th annual South County Girls’ Summit. The free event, which…

In just seven years, the Bend-based company Hydro Flask, went from being sold out of a pickup truck to being sold for nearly a quarter billion…

The Central Oregon Health Council is seeking applicants for volunteer board member positions. Applications will be accepted until Thursday, March 31…

A reminder for Central and Eastern Oregon drivers: Motorists will see new, higher speed limits on select highways in Eastern and Central Oregon, as…

Crooked River Ranch resident Mitchell Julio Morris, 20, appeared Monday in Jefferson County Circuit Court on two counts of aggravated murder and…

Oregon’s private employers were looking to fill about 48,000 job vacancies at any given time, according to new annual figures from the Oregon…

The Oregon Senate passed Monday two bills written and championed by state Rep. Knute Buehler, R-Bend, to protect government whistleblowers and tackle…

The last day to mail ballots for the Tuesday, March 8 Special Election on the city of Bend’s gas tax proposal is this Wednesday, March 2,…

Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., along with Al Franken, D-Minn., Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., led the charge Monday…

The High Desert Museum is offering week-long, summer camps that focus on nature, art and science for kids in grades K-5th from June 20 through August…

Average retail gasoline prices in Oregon have risen 1.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $1.89 a gallon Sunday,, according to…

One of several transients ordered by police to vacate a homeless camp on a city-owned lot in northeast Bend was arrested Saturday and jailed on a…

This time of year, many farmers, ranchers and land owners use fire to ready their land for the spring and summer growing season. This practice is a…