C.O. to get 4,680 COVID-19 vaccine first doses for next week; all adults eligible
Beginning Monday, everyone 16 or older will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine. A total of 4,680 first-dose COVID-19 vaccines will be scheduled for…
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Report of man with rifle in bushes prompts Prineville school lockout, arrest; no injuries
A report of a man with a hunting rifle walking around in bushes behind Prineville businesses Friday morning led to a lockdown of a nearby school and…
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Upper Deschutes Basin Water Study released by Bureau of Reclamation
Collaborative efforts to improve and modernize water management in the Deschutes River Basin have reached another milestone with the finalization and…
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Cascades East Transit to resume Saturday service May 1, remain fareless
Starting May 1, Cascades East Transit will return to providing Saturday services for Bend Fixed Routes and major Community Connector Routes across…
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NASA high-altitude balloon experiment launches in Madras, ends near Prineville
In the early hours of Thursday morning, a NASA partner’s critical space experiment was underway in Central…
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Winds keep prescribed burn smoke out of Bend, but it streamed into south county
It wasn’t hard to miss Thursday’s 350-acre prescribed burn west of Bend near Phil’s Trailhead. Smoke was expected, though the amount was not fully…
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Some SW Redmond residents voice concern about possible crime in neighborhoods
Several Redmond residents, mostly in the southwest part of the city, have posted notes on the Nextdoor website in recent days regarding suspicious,…
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Rockchuck infestation returns to Redmond schools
Last year, NewsChannel 21 reported on a rockchuck infestation at Hugh Hartman Elementary — and they’re back this year, at two other Redmond schools…
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Central Oregonians raising funds to buy garbage truck for homeless camp cleanups
After two cleanup operations by the Oregon Department of Transportation near Murphy Road and Revere Avenue sparked concern, some local organizers…
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Prescribed burn west of Bend underway, progressing well, officials say
Deschutes National Forest fuels specialists began a planned, 350-acre prescribed burn west of Bend, in the Phil’s Trail area on Thursday, putting up…
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Knopp co-sponsors, hails Senate passage of ‘middle housing’ legislation
Sen. Tim Knopp (R-Bend) carried Senate Bill 458 on the Senate floor as it won passage Thursday. Co-sponsored with Sen. Lew Fredrick (D-Portland), the…
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Wash. cyclist dies after being struck by car on Hwy. 97 south of Redmond
A bicyclist from Washington state has died after his bicycle was struck by a car on U.S. Highway 97 south of Redmond early Wednesday morning, Oregon…
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COCC board approves freeze on 2021-22 tuition, fees
The Central Oregon Community College Board of Directors voted unanimously Wednesday evening not to increase tuition or fees for the upcoming 2021-22…
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With fires, temps on the rise, ODF urges C. Oregon burning pause
The Oregon Department of Forestry’s Central Oregon District said Thursday it’s seen a significant rise in escaped debris and agricultural burns,…
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Sunriver Resort holds job fair, plans to hire 400; some leave with new jobs
Sunriver Resort held a job fair Wednesday evening as they prepare to bring on as many as 400 new employees for the summer.…
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Graduating Sisters High seniors to get banners for second year
For the second year in a row, Citizens4Community will be hanging banners around town to salute this year’s graduating Sisters High School seniors,…
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Occupied RV parked near NE Bend business for over 2 weeks prompts complaint
Andy West, the president of High Desert Trading, says an RV has been parked near his northeast Bend business for over two…
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Sisters Rodeo Queen, community now looking ahead to next summer
The Sisters Rodeo community is hurting, but already looking ahead.…
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Forest Service plans 200-acre prescribed burn Friday west of La Pine
Fuel specialists with the Deschutes National Forest plan to conduct a prescribed burn this Friday on about 200 acres of national forest lands seven…
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Deadly virus now confirmed in La Pine feral domestic rabbits
The US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory has confirmed rabbit hemorrhagic disease in a feral domestic rabbit…
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