C.O. Realtors outline COVID-19 impacts, say homes are still selling fast
Central Oregon’s new home listings fell markedly in April, compared to a year ago, and sales were down somewhat as well, Realtors reported Monday.…
Continue ReadingCentral Oregon’s new home listings fell markedly in April, compared to a year ago, and sales were down somewhat as well, Realtors reported Monday.…
Continue ReadingMany Central Oregon businesses are having trouble getting federal assistance amid lengthy business closures, and one in Bend is now requesting and…
Continue ReadingThe cities of Bend and Redmond, working with the two cities’ chambers, held listening sessions with business sectors for feedback on what’s needed…
Continue ReadingOregon is planning to allow its famed microbreweries and wine tasting rooms to reopen when it starts loosening stay-home orders, rejecting a federal…
Continue ReadingDuring the week of April 19 to April 25, the Oregon Employment Department received 28,500 initial claims for unemployment benefits, the agency said…
Continue ReadingSummertime is prime vacation season, and as states encouraged people to cancel travel abroad due to COVID 19, people who scheduled trips using a…
Continue ReadingThe Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council and Community Lending Works have come together with regional partners to create an emergency loan fund…
Continue ReadingExperts at MoneyGeek are looking at numbers reported by the U.S. Department of Labor to forecast the peak unemployment rates for several places…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced Wednesday a $4.4 million settlement with the nonprofit Ecotrust and its…
Continue ReadingOne of the first measures of COVID-19’s impact on Oregon’s economy, released Wednesday, said what just about everyone already knows: The state’s…
Continue ReadingThe Madras City Council and the Madras Redevelopment Commission recently voted to set up an Economic Assistance Grant Program to help Madras…
Continue ReadingStarting next Monday, Costco members and staff will be required to wear face masks before they can enter the Bend…
Continue ReadingConstruction of Bend’s new WinCo Foods officially began this week. The new grocery store will fill the 100,000-square-foot building that Shopko…
Continue ReadingBEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Bend Chamber, City of Bend and East Cascades Works recently launched the website SOS Bend, to help small, locally owned…
Continue ReadingStarting Tuesday, the Oregon Employment Department is providing unemployment benefits to more Oregonians, including self-employed and independent…
Continue ReadingConstruction in Bend is showing little sign of slowing, according to the city, so officials who oversee and regulate that work are adjusting to…
Continue ReadingThe state’s tourism promotion commission, Travel Oregon, is laying off 17 employees, furloughing others and cutting pay as it copes with dropping…
Continue ReadingThe Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has extended its emergency order on insurance deadlines. The order requires all insurance…
Continue ReadingThe Oregon Liquor Control Commission took additional steps Wednesday to help reduce the COVID-19 pandemic-created economic pressure faced by OLCC…
Continue ReadingMarch was a tale of two months in Central Oregon and nationwide — the first half and the second half. But jobless rates on the High Desert were low…
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