Bend Fire & Rescue opens Camp Fire Axe applications
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Central Oregon high school students ages 16-19 years old can now apply for Camp Fire Axe, Bend Fire & Rescue’s annual…
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Bend city councilors approve five Neighborhood Street Safety Program projects for 2024
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Bend City Council approved the construction contract for the 2024 Neighborhood Street Safety Program projects at Wednesday…
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Bend Mayor Melanie Kebler joins other mayors in D.C. to lobby lawmakers, administration on homelessness, housing
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Earlier this week, Bend Mayor Melanie Melanie Kebler traveled to Washington D.C., with the U.S. Conference of Mayors…
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Smoke alarm awakens NE Bend residents, who catch fire early, limiting damage; cause traced to woodstove ashes
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A smoke alarm awakened residents of a northeast Bend home early Wednesday morning, alerting them to a house fire that damaged a…
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Community Conversations: Furnish Hope is a Bend organization that helps make houses homes, with your help
This week, Lynsey Harris sits down with Megan Martin, the founding executive director of Furnish Hope, a Bend organization that furnishes homes for…
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More on upcoming closure of Bend’s IHOP – and word that the Redmond Black Bear Diner has closed
(Update: Adding clarification) We looked into the upcoming closure of Bend’s IHOP Restaurant on Tuesday and learned that the Black Bear Diner in…
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M’s Bakery coming to Bend’s Old Mill District this fall
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – M’s Bakery, a local owner-operator bakery cafe from husband-and-wife Dario Muciño and Macy Davis, is set to open in Bend’s…
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MountainStar Family Relief Nursery’s ‘Walk with a Child’ event spotlights efforts to help vulnerable children, families
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — MountainStar Family Relief Nursery says its mission is to prevent child abuse and neglect through free community support and…
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US Postal Service seeking workers, holding events each Thursday in May at Bend Post Office
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — As May arrives, mail carriers, handlers, and clerks are still very much in demand at the Postal Service throughout…
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ODOT’s sixth, likely last blasting operation on Bend’s new Highway 97 route was a two-section shot
Connect Central Oregon used two drones and a camera on the ground to capture the two-section blast Tuesday night on Highway 97’s new Bend North…
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‘Born in Bend – our home’: Crux has no plans to leave, despite putting its tasting room property up for sale
(Update: adding video, comment from managing director) Instead, it plans to lease SW Division site back; $5.5 million sale will ‘free resources to…
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State grant to help fund long-awaited river access upgrades at Miller’s Landing Park in Bend
Access to the Deschutes River for kayakers and river floaters is about to get better in the Old Mill area. A grant will help fund the long-awaited…
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Live fire training planned today just west of Bend, north of Tumalo Creek for prescribed fire training program
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Firefighters will be conducting a live fire training Tuesday a mile west of Bend, adjacent to Forest Service Road 4606 and…
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Oregon PUC approves sale of small, troubled Sun Country Water west of Bend to Avion Water Company
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Public Utility Commission says it recently facilitated and approved the $100,000 sale of Sun Country Water’s…
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Oregon State Marine Board approves $300,000 grant to Bend Park & Rec District for Miller’s Landing boat launch
The Oregon State Marine Board held its quarterly hybrid meeting in Astoria and online last week and approved several statewide boating facility…
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Bend’s IHOP sign almost taken out in early-AM crash; minor injuries to driver, 80; restaurant set to close in June
An 80-year-old Bend man likely fell asleep at the wheel early Saturday morning when he drifted across Northeast Third Street and struck a large IHOP…
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‘It’s worse than you could possibly imagine’: Oregon GOP lawmakers, candidates share thoughts on border visit
Sixteen Oregon Republican state senators, representatives and candidates are touring the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona this week with the Border…
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We need to do more with less, new Oregon Health Authority director says during Central Oregon visit, tour
New Oregon Health Authority Director Dr. Sejal Hathi’s regional tour of Central Oregon health care organizations and facilities — her fifth around…
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Bend man arrested on charges of ‘overtly sexual’ online contact, attempting to meet with deputy posing as underage girl
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Bend man who allegedly engaged in “overtly sexual communications” online with someone he believed to be a minor female,…
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Bend fire crews stop blaze that burned homeless encampment, threatened businesses on NE Olney Avenue
Several reports of a fire behind warehouses and businesses in northeast Bend Sunday night brought firefighters to the scene, and they stopped the…
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