By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Party Bus, a 3-year-old bull bred for bucking, has performed in his first and last rodeo. Party Bus — named after his father, Short Bus — made national headlines last weekend at his first rodeo when he jumped the fence of a crowded arena in central
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Some things went awfully wrong when a bull jumped a fence and escaped from the Sisters Rodeo arena late in Saturday night’s performance and ran through a concession area – but it could have been far worse just minutes earlier, when a much larger crowd was lined up for refreshments.
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A bull jumped a fence and escaped from the Sisters Rodeo arena during the bull-riding event at Saturday night’s performance, striking and injuring three people while it ran through the rodeo grounds, sparking a frantic run for safety, authorities said.
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NewsChannel 21’s Isabella Warren was on hand before the big Friday night performance of the 84th Sisters Rodeo and talked with officials about how it’s going, the issue of third-party ticket resellers and how the animals are cared for on such hot days.
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Construction crews are hard at work on the east side of McKenzie Pass and plan to have the highway above the gate paved and open by the morning of Thursday, July 4, ODOT said Friday. Earlier this week, crews began paving preparation work beyond the gate of this seasonally closed pass.
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The new roundabout at Highway 20 and Locust Street is about halfway finished, with westbound traffic moved Monday onto the new route; the project is slated for completion in the fall.
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Half of the new roundabout at U.S. Highway 20 and Locust Street in Sisters will open to westbound traffic next Monday, ODOT announced. Eastbound traffic will remain the same, with no left turns at Hood Avenue. Travelers should expect nighttime lane closures Sunday night through Monday morning while crews prepare the
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One day after the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office sought help from the public to find an escaped horse missing in the Sisters area, the agency said it had learned the animal had been found in “relatively good health.”
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Three Sisters veterans groups came together to host Monday’s Memorial Day Service at Village Green Park.
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A fire that broke out in a garage workbench caused about $50,000 damage to a home in the Cloverdale area Monday morning, also briefly shutting nearby U.S. Highway 20, but the residents awakened by a smoke alarm escaped unhurt. Cloverdale Rural Fire Protection District crews were alerted to the fire just
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The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office will be hosting a Community Academy in Sisters Wednesday and Thursday of this week, May 15-16 from 6-9 p.m. It will be held at the Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Community Hall, located at 301 S. Elm St. in Sisters. Each night will feature a different presentation, and the public is welcome
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On Monday, after successful test fires, firefighters on the Deschutes National Forest began prescribed burn operations on the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District and the Sisters Ranger District.
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ)– This week, over $10 million was brought into Central Oregon to build new affordable housing. In Sisters, Habitat for Humanity received over $4 million to help build 24 new units. “It’s a wide swath of people that are stuck in that scenario where they cannot afford to buy a house. We’re going to
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Art and Agriculture announces an open call for applicants to its seventh annual residency program, which brings world-class artists, ecological scientists, researchers and scholars to Sisters from March through November. The open call has a juried application process, where prospective residents from around the US may
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A transient wanted on an Idaho warrant for kidnapping her three young children in Caldwell, Idaho, was found at a camp near Sisters on Sunday morning, and the two girls and a boy, ages 4-7, also were found there unharmed, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said Monday.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon Housing and Community Services announced Tuesday the approval of nearly $23 million toward creating 157 new homes across the state, about half of them at five developments in Redmond and Sisters. “These investments will continue to help establish concrete pathways for Oregonians to pursue homeownership,” the agency said. “While no
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(Update: Precipitation prompts cancellation of prescribed burn) SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Overnight precipitation has prompted the Sisters Ranger District to cancel a prescribed burn planned for Tuesday about two miles southwest of Sisters as part of an Agency Administrator Workshop hosted by the National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center (NIPFTC), a multi-agency training center based
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A Bend transient who used a ride-share service to travel from the Deschutes County Stabilization Center to Sisters early Friday morning then assaulted the 77-year-old driver and stole his car, driving it over Santiam Pass to Lane County, where he crashed, tried to steal another car but was struck and arrested, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said.
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Dozens of firefighters from across the nation, including Tribal Nations, and Canada are taking part in a two-week prescribed burn training program, right here in Central Oregon.
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) – On Wednesday, Sisters Ranger District firefighters plan to conduct up to 28 acres of prescribed burning on Sisters Area Fuels Reduction (SAFR) Unit 64 about three miles south of Sisters adjacent to Three Creek Lake Road (Forest Service Road 16), at the junction of Forest Service Road 16 and Forest Service
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