City of Bend road and traffic report – week of July 31-August 6
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Here is the city of Bend’s road and traffic report for the week of July 31-August 6: SE Reed Market Road between SE Ninth…
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Fifth annual Head Start Book Drive underway at Roundabout Books, aided by SELCO Community Credit Union
The fifth annual Head Start Book Drive with Roundabout Books and SELCO Community Credit Union is underway. NeighborImpact aims to collect 1,350 new…
Continue ReadingA drought alert for receding Lake Titicaca has Indigenous communities worried for their future
By PAOLA FLORES Associated Press HUARINA, Bolivia (AP) — A 70-year-old man’s feet sink into the soil as he passes abandoned boats where there…
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Wyden, Merkley, Hoyle try again on bill to reauthorize Secure Rural Schools funding program
Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., along with Rep. Val Hoyle, D-Ore., on Friday reintroduced a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the U.S. Forest…
Continue ReadingBlack Belt Eagle Scout’s latest record inspired by return home to Swinomish tribe’s ancestral lands
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The beginning of the pandemic was devasting for the leader of the indie rock band Black Belt Eagle…
Continue ReadingBlack Belt Eagle Scout’s latest record inspired by return home to Swinomish tribe’s ancestral lands
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The beginning of the pandemic was devasting for the leader of the indie rock band Black Belt Eagle…
Continue Reading30 days over 110 F in Phoenix. But expected monsoon rains could cool historically hot Southwest
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A historic heat wave that has gripped the U.S. Southwest throughout July, blasting residents and…
Continue ReadingAfter an attack on Salman Rushdie, the Chautauqua Institution says its mission won’t change
By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — For a single, unthinkable moment last summer, the Chautauqua Institution was a hostile…
Continue ReadingEx-New Mexico police informant headed to prison after admitting 5 bank robberies to feed addiction
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man who confessed to five bank robberies last year, including one bank he robbed twice, has been sentenced to…
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OSU study: Billions in conservation spending fail to improve Columbia Basin wild fish stocks
Four decades of conservation spending totaling more than $9 billion in inflation-adjusted tax dollars has failed to improve stocks of wild salmon and…
Continue Reading‘God willing, we will meet again in Libya.’ A migrant family’s tale shows chaos at Tunisian border
By RENATA BRITO, ELAINE GANLEY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press When Mbengue Nyimbilo Crepin regained consciousness after collapsing in the desert,…
Continue ReadingWater is refreshing in the heat, right? In parts of Florida this past week, not so much
By MICHAEL PHILLIS, BEATRICE DUPUY and REBECCA BLACKWELL Associated Press KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — In the sweltering summer heat, nobody tries to…
Continue ReadingFrench President Macron visits his counterpart in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting his Sri Lankan counterpart in the first visit by a French leader to the…
Continue ReadingFresh charges tie Trump even more closely to coverup effort. That could deepen his legal woes
By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a stunning new allegation in an already serious case: Former…
Continue ReadingLGBTQ+ community proud and visible at Women’s World Cup
By MAX RALPH Associated Press AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand striker Hannah Wilkinson has helped create two milestones at the Women’s…
Continue ReadingWhat Ukraine must do to win in its southern push – and what Russia has in reserve
CNN By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — The Ukrainian military is doubling down on efforts to break through thick Russian defenses in its…
Continue ReadingWhat Ukraine must do to win in its southern push – and what Russia has in reserve
By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — The Ukrainian military is doubling down on efforts to break through thick Russian defenses in its counteroffensive…
Continue ReadingMembers of Congress break for August with no clear path to avoiding a shutdown this fall
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers broke for their August recess this week with work on funding the government largely…
Continue ReadingElection disinformation campaigns targeted voters of color in 2020. Experts expect 2024 to be worse
By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Leading up to the 2020 election, Facebook ads targeting Latino and Asian American voters…
Continue ReadingColorado officer who placed handcuffed suspect into a vehicle that was hit by train is found guilty of misdemeanors, but acquitted of felony
By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A Colorado police officer who put a handcuffed suspect in a patrol SUV that was then hit by a train near Denver last…
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