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The recess bell rings out across an empty school yard as a normally chaotic playground stays empty at Sisters Elementary School. Smoke has blanketed…

On Thursday, Sept. 13, stakeholders throughout Deschutes County participated in a one-day workshop for the development of integrated strategies to…

On Saturday, Sept. 15th, about 130 motorcyclists delivered almost 1,800 teddy bears to the Bend, Prineville, Madras and Redmond hospitals. This was…

A late fire season around the Northwest and Friday night thunderstorms have ignited new fires in Central Oregon, several on the Warm Springs Indian…

When a wildfire breaks out in the national forest, forest rangers sometimes risk their lives leading people out of the woods and back to safety. But…

Former COCC instructor Thomas Bray looked on in a blue jail uniform, hands and feet shackled – his first court appearance out of a suit and tie –…

A heating unit in an unoccupied guest room at Bend’s Shilo Inn ignited curtains in a blaze Monday morning that fortunately went out on its own,…

The state of Oregon and HomeSource of NeighborImpact announced new resources Monday to help Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook county homeowners at risk…

A 32-year-old Redmond woman was killed early Monday when her car left the Old Bend-Redmond Highway and struck a tree head-on, Deschutes County…

Atelier 6000 is a professional printmaking studio and gallery in Bend but on Sunday the art was out in the parking lot and be steamrolled —…

Reed Market Rd. and Mt. Washington Dr. are scheduled for asphalt overlay as part of the city of Bend’s 2012 Street Maintenance Program. The…

Eergency officials from Deschutes County, the city of Bend, St Charles Medical Center and personnel from TransCanada Corp. will conduct a joint…

The American Red Cross said Sunday it has opened an aid station at the Sisters Elementary School gymnasium to provide a place for individuals to get…

It was supposed to be a pleasant overnight outing in the Central Oregon woods on a warm, late-summer weekend. But a week after being trapped by a…

The smoke from the Pole Creek Fire didn’t stop many residents from attending the final day of the annual Sisters Fall Street Festival on…

Crook County sheriff’s deputies said they responded to two crashes within a half-hour Saturday evening that sent three people to area hospitals…

In the midst of the Pole Creek Fire and all other potential disasters, experts gathered in Sisters Saturday to get information out into the…

A failed power cord on an appliance in a carport apparently caused a fire early Saturday that destroyed a northeast Bend home, displacing a family of…

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said Friday she has issued a declaration ending a program that allowed hundreds of parents to lower or…

To better prepare Central Oregon for a major disaster, a group in Sisters is holding a disaster preparedness fair this weekend. The group came…