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Bend Area Habitat for Humanity is thrilled to announce that local Habitat for Humanity advocate, Les Alford, has won the Clive Rainey Lifetime…

Georgia’s “Safe Carry Protection Act” — or as critics call it, the “Guns Everywhere Bill” — sparked…

A new state audit released Wednesday found that minority and economically disadvantaged eighth-graders were significantly behind their peers in…

Given favorable conditions, Deschutes National Forest fuel specialists on the Sisters Ranger District plan to conduct an approximately 160-acre…

Oregon Housing and Community Services is expecting closure of its successful Home Rescue Program in June, having distributed the allotted $220…

A handwritten note demanding money proved to be the key that led to the arrest Monday night of a 54-year-old Madras man near Prineville in last…

Spring is here, but nationwide lime prices are close to an all-time high. Some places have seen prices increase by close to four times, and it has…

Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Oregon’s Board of Directors has accepted Lisa Maxwell, Executive Director’s resignation. Lisa Maxwell…

An elderly driver from Colorado was killed and two Hillsboro residents in an SUV were injured in a two-vehicle crash that blocked U.S. Highway 20…

In the fall of 2015, Bend will start to look different. For the first time, freshmen will show up in the fall, ready to begin the start of their…

A newly published scientific study discovered that some resident fish in the lower Columbia River, namely largescale suckers, contain chemicals that…

On Monday night there was supposed to be, by some accounts, a debate between the two leading GOP primary U.S. Senate candidates, state Rep. Jason…

Aliyah Formen, Ridgeview High School junior, placed second in the state out of 65 competitors in state competition for FBLA, (Future Business Leaders…

Bend’s Drake Park recently became home to a pair of great horned owls who are actively nesting with their owlet — and that’s…

Acrovision Sports Center founder and former co-owner Richard Gustafson pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of sex abuse Monday morning in Deschutes…

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists reminded and warned drivers Monday that deer, elk, turtles, frogs and other wildlife are on the…

Albacore tuna caught off the Oregon shore after the Fukushima Daiichi power station in Japan was destroyed in a 2011 earthquake had slightly elevated…

A personal document shredding, food drive and drug disposal event will take place at the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Substation in La…

U.S. Highway 20W near Suttle Lake was blocked for 90 minutes Saturday morning after a semi-truck jackknifed across the highway. The driver was unhurt…

Bend High School hosted the third annual TEDx Bend event Saturday, and it drew a huge, sold-out crowd. About 1,400 people listened to 15 speakers and…