New Central Oregon POW/MIA memorial in the works
Project Recover is a national nonprofit organization that searches for and locates Americans missing in action from America’s past conflicts, dating…
Continue ReadingProject Recover is a national nonprofit organization that searches for and locates Americans missing in action from America’s past conflicts, dating…
Continue ReadingA 14-mile pavement preservation project on U.S. Highway 20 over Santiam Pass that was started late last summer and was halted due to poor weather…
Continue ReadingOregon Senators Jeff Merkley, Ron Wyden, Democratic colleagues introduce legislation requiring the Pentagon to remove all names, other elements that…
Continue ReadingCOVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 197, along with 124 new cases, the Oregon Health Authority reported…
Continue ReadingOregon’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Thursday in the House and Senate to name Bend’s VA clinic for Robert Maxwell, a Medal of…
Continue ReadingAfter a storm of criticism, Lincoln County officials on Wednesday agreed to drop an exemption that allowed people of color to not wear masks, if they…
Continue ReadingLawyers representing two plaintiffs have filed a class-action lawsuit in Bend they say is aimed at preventing all Oregon counties from…
Continue ReadingAfter careful consideration, the Central Oregon Builders Association said it’s still going to hold the 2020 Tour of Homes next month, but the…
Continue ReadingA building at the University of Oregon will no longer be named for an early white settler who supported slavery and who helped draft the state’s…
Continue ReadingThe Deschutes National Forest said Tuesday it is seeking public comment on a proposed Cave Management Forest Order that would prohibit specific…
Continue ReadingDeschutes County commissioners met Wednesday to consider a proposal to amend the Redmond-to-Bend safety project that will add a raised median along…
Continue Reading“For lease” signs and empty storefronts apparently are more present in Redmond’s downtown than ever before.…
Continue ReadingFirefighters made good progress and reached 60% containment Wednesday of a day-old, 1,000-acre fire on private land about 10 miles east of Madras,…
Continue ReadingCOVID-19 has claimed three more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 195, along with 171 more cases, the Oregon Health Authority…
Continue ReadingThe former Burger King located at 1091 SE 3rd Street in Bend recently sold to Kendall Development Group for $2,050,000 to Kendall Development Group…
Continue ReadingOregon lawmakers, most wearing masks and trying to maintain social distance, began a special session Wednesday to crack down on police brutality and…
Continue ReadingRedmond city councilors, meeting as the city’s Urban Renewal Board, approved a $1 million contract Tuesday night to demolish an 80-year-old…
Continue ReadingThe Fourth of July is less than two weeks away, and stands opened up on the High Desert Tuesday for customers to buy fireworks.…
Continue ReadingAnother summer, another minimum wage increase. For the last four years, Oregon’s minimum wage has increased at least 25 cents every July. But this…
Continue ReadingOregon’s law enforcement unions are objecting to all six police accountability bills that have been introduced for the special legislative session…
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