(Update: correction, Tula-tu was born in 2025 – article previously stated 2024) PORLTAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Tula-Tu, a young Asian elephant calf at the Oregon Zoo, has become the first elephant on the West Coast to receive an experimental vaccine aimed at protecting against elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus, or EEHV. Born Feb. 1, 2025, to mother
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Update: Here is the information from the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office.The Josephine County Sheriff’s Office has requested activation of an AMBER Alert for Kaydence Patterson. The victim was taken from 32429 Redwood Highway overnight on 08-31-2026. The suspect was driving a 2006, Silver Infinity M 30, license plate, O E O 4 2 2, Oregon,
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Bend, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Emergency Fire Cost Committee will meet at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at the Oregon Department of Forestry headquarters in Salem. The meeting will be open to the public in person and virtually via Microsoft Teams. The committee oversees the Oregon Forest Land Protection Fund, which was created by
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Bureau of Land Management will temporarily close the Reynolds Pond Trailhead from September 11th – 13th to protect public safety during permitted gundog testing. The restriction will block access to Reynolds Pond and limit entry into the Oregon Badlands Wilderness from that location between noon and 6:00p.m. daily. During the
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Family Access Network (FAN) recently received a $15,000 grant from Les Schwab in support of breaking down barriers to crucial resources for low-income children and their families. Half of this funding will go directly to FAN services in Crook County, while the other half will support FAN operations throughout Central Oregon.
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By Tim Lister, Victoria Butenko and Svitlana Vlasova CNN (CNN) — Ukraine is urgently trying to develop interceptors capable of countering a new generation of Russian jet-powered drones that have wreaked havoc across the country in recent months. Along with the Kremlin’s ballistic weapons and a new type of cruise missile, the jet-drones have caused
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Emergency crews responded to a water rescue on the Deschutes River near the Bend Whitewater Park after a man was found unconscious in the river. Bend Fire and Rescue alongside Bend Police were dispatched to the scene. According to police, witnesses saw the man swimming above the rapids shortly before he
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Bend, Ore. (KTVZ) — High Desert Chamber Music will hold auditions for its 2026-27 Spotlight Chamber Players program on Sept. 8 and Sept. 9 in Bend, Ore. The chamber music program is offered at no cost to selected students. The program is open to violin, viola, cello, bass and piano students in grades 6-12 who
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Bend, Ore. (KTVZ) — Chief Kari Goodheart Petitioner of the Oregon Freedom Amendment, filed formal objections Sunday with the Oregon Secretary of State and Attorney General over the draft ballot title for Initiative Petition 2028-025. The challenge contends that the Attorney General’s draft ballot title fails to accurately describe the proposed constitutional amendment and does
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Bend, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Hayden Homes Amphitheater maintains a 93.5% waste diversion rate, keeping concert trash out of landfills through composting, recycling and reuse. Staff from Deschutes County Solid Waste recently toured the facility to observe the behind-the-scenes operations firsthand. The venue’s waste management strategy relies on clear communication with vendors, strong custodial support
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By Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir has made it a point to post videos of himself on social media taunting or mocking Palestinian prisoners. He boasted of threatening the most high-profile Palestinian prisoner. He showed off activists from a Gaza flotilla bound on the floor. And he
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By Eric Levenson, Nicki Brown and Jean Casarez, CNN Plymouth, Massachusetts (CNN) — The Massachusetts jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial resumed deliberations for a fourth day Tuesday, as they work to decide if prosecutors have proven the 36-year-old murdered her three children beyond a reasonable doubt. Jurors returned to the courthouse here in Plymouth
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CNN, DAVID J GREGORY, ERICA VIOLA, KPHO, KTVK, WIEKE DE BOER By Maria Aguilar Prieto, Tyler Ory, Mounira Elsamra, Sarah Dewberry, Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — One of the nation’s most famously arid landmarks succumbed to deadly flash flooding over the weekend, leaving at least two people dead and roughly a dozen unaccounted for as
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Hopes are fading for a quick rescue operation as Nepali crews and foreign specialists race to find scores of workers feared trapped alive inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal, after thick mud buried the facilities during last week’s devastating flash floods. Around 900 workers are missing at various hydropower projects
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By Brad Lendon, Hanna Park, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A Korean-born US Army veteran who self-deported last year has been pardoned for the crimes that led to him leaving, raising hopes that he can return to the United States. Sae Joon Park, 57, is among a number of noncitizen US military veterans who
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A 38-year-old federal wildlife officer from Scio, Ore., is believed to have died while helping evacuate residents threatened by the Railroad South Fire in Oklahoma, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed. Officer David Taylor was going door to door alongside local emergency crews helping families get to safety. His last
Continue Reading By Maria Aguilar Prieto, Tyler Ory, Mounira Elsamra, Sarah Dewberry, Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — One of the nation’s most famously arid landmarks succumbed to deadly flash flooding over the weekend, leaving at least two people dead and roughly a dozen unaccounted for as more rain could lash Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona on
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By Abeer Salman, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli settlers stormed a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Saturday and seized a home while its owner was inside in the latest brazen settler attack in the area. Despite the Israeli military saying there were “dozens of rioters” when they arrived at the
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By Holly Yan, CNN The lush grass blanketing this scenic Texas field belies the grisly horrors discovered underneath and the agonizing mystery that has tormented families for decades – until now. Between 1984 and 1991, the bodies of four young women were found in a rural, isolated 25-acre patch of terrain near Calder Road in
Continue ReadingBy Ross Adkin, Hanako Montgomery, Daniel Campisi and Balmukunda Humagain, CNN (CNN) — As water, concrete and debris stormed through the darkness, almost sweeping him off his feet, Ram Chandra tightly gripped onto one of the rungs studded into the roof of the tunnel he was working in on the banks of Nepal’s Trishuli river.
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