Bend Park and Rec summer programs return with added safety measures, offerings
Bend Park and Recreation programs for swimming, day camps and outdoor sports will return this summer, after many were canceled last year due to the…
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‘Frustration’ as Crook, Jefferson counties fall back into COVID-19 ‘High Risk’; Deschutes avoids ‘Extreme Risk’
Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday announced updates to county risk levels under the state’s public health framework to reduce transmission and protect…
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Bend-La Pine Schools adding electric bus to fleet by summer, as replacements go green
Bend-La Pine Schools typically replaces about 20 school buses every two years. That, of course, is not cheap. Fortunately, the district has received…
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Bringing back the ‘memory of the forest’: Bend man turns wildfire charcoal into art
Troy Stith uses a medium in his artwork that might not be so common:…
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Oregon reports one more COVID-19 related death, 580 new cases; indoor sports can resume
There is one new COVID-19 related death in Oregon, and the state’s death toll remains at 2,460 because of a data correction from a previously…
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Rep. Breese Iverson accuses Democrat state lawmaker Witt of sexual harassment
State Rep. Vikki Breese Iverson, R-Prineville, says she was subjected to sexual harassment and pressured to take part in a “quid-pro-quo”…
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Gov. Brown, lawmakers react to Chauvin guilty verdicts
Gov. Kate Brown and the Oregon House majority leader issued statements Tuesday shortly after the Minneapolis jury guilty verdicts against Derek…
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Redmond man arrested in fatal shooting of Prineville man on Lone Pine Road
A Redmond man was arrested Monday on a charge of criminally negligent homicide in the shooting death of a Prineville man whose body was found Sunday…
Continue ReadingDerek Chauvin found guilty of murder and manslaughter in death of George Floyd
The former Minneapolis Police officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck for over 9 minutes last year was found guilty of murder and…
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Oregon House sessions canceled due to COVID-19 case
The Oregon House of Representatives canceled all floor sessions for the rest of the week on Tuesday after someone at the Capitol was diagnosed with…
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600-acre prescribed burn planned east of La Pine
Deschutes National Forest fuels specialists plan to conduct prescribed burns totaling about 600 acres five miles east of La Pine this Wednesday and…
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Recovery surges: Central Oregon posts strongest job gains since last summer
The recovery surged in March, behind significant job gains across all three Central Oregon counties, the state Employment Department reported…
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Gun storage bill sparks debate on High Desert; Oregon House vote delayed
A vote in Oregon’s House of Representatives on controversial gun storage legislation, initially set for Monday, has been pushed back a week to…
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Fugitive arrested in NE Bend parking lot; K-9 finds heroin, methamphetamine in SUV
A Bend man with an outstanding arrest warrant was arrested Saturday night at a northeast Bend parking lot and a drug-sniffing K-9 found heroin and…
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‘There wasn’t a song he couldn’t sing’: Mother mourns for Hwy. 97 crash victim
Less than a week ago, Lori Cross lost her son in an early-morning crash on a stretch of Highway 97 just south of…
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As COVID-19 vaccine becomes available for older teens, C.O. parents weigh their options
As of Monday, about 155,000 more Deschutes County residents became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, with anyone 16 and older now qualifying to get…
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Bend resident feels work as NASA engineer helped pave the way for historic Mars flight
It was a historic moment for NASA on Monday as the helicopter Ingenuity successfully took flight on…
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Sky View MS Principal Scott Olszewski named new La Pine HS principal
Bend-La Pine Schools Interim Superintendent Lora Nordquist announced Monday that Scott Olszewski has been selected to serve as the new principal at…
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1,400-acre Klamath County wildfire destroys 2 structures, 10% contained
Firefighters reported strong progress overnight on a wildfire that broke out Sunday in Klamath County and quickly grew to about 1,400 acres,…
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Vote delayed on Oregon gun storage bill, would be among toughest laws in the US
A proposed gun storage law that would be among the toughest in the U.S. is headed for a vote in the Oregon House. Backers say it will save lives,…
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