SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Small grants that make a big difference for ensuring access to arts programming, especially in rural areas, have been awarded to 135 arts organizations by the Oregon Arts Commission. Each organization will receive $2,355 for the 2025 fiscal year. Small Operating Grants support arts organizations throughout the state with annual budgets
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WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Museum at Warm Springs has received a FY 2025 Cultural Development grant for $25,899 from Oregon Cultural Trust. This September, Oregon Cultural Trust awarded a record $3.85 million to 148 Oregon cultural organizations. The Museum at Warm Springs is among six Central Oregon entities that has received funding. The
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – An increase in fiscal year 2024 donations and an Oregon Cultural Trust administrative budget allocation revision has resulted in an increase of close to $1 million in fiscal year 2025 grant awards, with an all-time high of $3.85 million awarded to 148 Oregon cultural organizations. Generous Oregonians increased their donations to
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WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs’ Warm Springs Housing Authority last week officially opened a new Permanent Supportive Housing Project, which will provide dedicated, comprehensive support to dozens of Tribal members who are experiencing chronic homelessness. With the support of the State of Oregon, who furnished a $4.1 million grant to fund its
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., have announced that KWSO-FM, a non-commercial community radio station owned and operated by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, is receiving up to $158,749 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The federal grant will be used to upgrade the radio station’s broadcast transmission infrastructure as
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The search for a 31-year-old Warm Springs man who jumped into the Crooked River at Lake Billy Chinook with a friend late Sunday night and soon slipped underwater ended in tragedy late Wednesday afternoon when divers helped by sonar found Triston Boise’s body in 42 feet of water, Jefferson County Sheriff Jason Pollock said.
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WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A brush fire Monday afternoon behind the old Warm Springs Mill and Warm Springs Composites was fanned by high winds and burned about 200 acres before it was contained by Warm Springs and other firefighting agencies. Warm Springs Fire and Safety was dispatched shortly after 3 p.m. to the reported
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WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Museum at Warm Springs kicks off its annual Membership Drive Monday. It will run through August 31. This year The Museum’s Membership Drive continues to build on the momentum from the 30th anniversary celebration, which concluded in 2023 with a fundraising gala that demonstrated tremendous community support and netted
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After many months of critical infrastructure updates and expansive renovations, Kah-Nee-Ta Hot Springs Resort reopened to the public on Thursday, to a warm reception from tribal members and visitors alike.
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WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Museum at Warm Springs announced Tuesday it has received a $100,000 grant from First Nations Development Institute of Longmont, Colorado through its Native Arts, Language and Knowledge Program. The two-year grant will support The Museum’s efforts to preserve and advance traditional Native arts through programming focused on supporting artists and intergenerational
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WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Last week, Governor Tina Kotek and First Lady Aimee Kotek Wilson visited the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. The visit is part of Governor Kotek’s commitment to visit all of Oregon’s nine federally recognized sovereign Tribal nations in 2024.“The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs were very gracious hosts last week,
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Plans include speed reduction, new roundabout, shared-use path WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Oregon U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with Representatives Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), and Andrea Salinas (OR-06), announced Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Transportation is awarding nearly $43 million in federal funding from its Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability
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“Portraits in Red: Missing & Murdered Indigenous People Painting Project,” a national traveling exhibition, went on display Wednesday at The Museum at Warm Springs and will be on view through the summer, shining a spotlight on an issue of heartbreaking loss and unanswered questions.
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WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Museum at Warm Springs, which recently reopened after a five-month closure to install a new HVAC system, has received $20,000 in general operating support from the Oregon Community Foundation’s Community Grants Program. Contributing to the grant were the Dorris Coombs Thomas Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation and Fred
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The Museum at Warm Springs reopened to the public Tuesday morning, after an unexpectedly long closure since last Dec. 18 for the installation of a new heating, ventilation and air conditioning system.
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WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Nearly 18 months after an 18-year-old disappeared on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, prompting police to seek information from the public, the Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office has confirmed that remains found late last year were those of the missing teen, police said. The Warm Springs Police Department received a
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The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs announced Wednesday they filed a petition with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife this week, asking it to repeal or amend a rule implementing the August 2023 Tribal Memorandum of Agreement that authorized off-reservation hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering by the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.
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Oregon State Police released more details Monday in a fatal crash early Saturday on US Highway 26 at the Mill Creek Bridge, where a Portland area man drove off the road and landed in the canyon 250 feet below.
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WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Officials with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and the City of Bend held a ceremonial signing Thursday of their historic Memorandum of Understanding at Tribal Council Chambers in Warm Springs. The MOU is the first of its kind between the Tribes and a city in Central Oregon, and establishes
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A Warm Springs man with seven prior domestic violence convictions was sentenced to nearly seven years in federal prison Thursday for assaulting his then-girlfriend on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in December 2020.
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