Twin Lakes Resort deals with spring snow, still expects to fill up for fishing season’s opening weekend
Twin Lakes Resort staff are cutting, moving and unpacking everything they need to open for the start of fishing season…
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Burrowing rockchucks breach COID canal near Redmond; flooding stopped, repairs begin
A 30-foot hole is what’s left after burrowing rodents — rockchucks, to be specific — caused a breach in an irrigation canal south of Redmond…
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Deschutes County commissioners OK new financing program for commercial clean energy projects
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Commercial businesses in Deschutes County will have access to financing for clean energy improvements by late summer, supporters…
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SUV driver runs into Sunriver Marketplace post office; no injuries reported
A woman who accidentally hit the gas crashed her SUV into the wall of the post office at the Sunriver Marketplace on Cottonwood Road Wednesday…
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Woodward Peace Park Championships draw snowboarding elite to Mt. Bachelor
After a three-year hiatus, the Woodward Peace Park Championships return this…
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Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project gains 3 more years of federal funding
Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Wednesday $11.67 million in federal funding headed to five collaborative forestry projects around…
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‘Know Wonder’ this May at the Deschutes Public Library
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Take the feeling of surprise, add a dash of admiration, fold in inexplicable magic and you have created the sentiment of wonder.…
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Proposal to rezone 710 acres west of Terrebonne for rural housing draws fire at hearing
A Deschutes County hearings officer heard testimony Tuesday from many residents and a land-use watchdog group opposed to a proposal to rezone 710…
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Welcome late-season snow has flip side, delays opening some Deschutes NF campgrounds
Recent late-season storms have brought much-needed snow to the Deschutes National Forest’s upper elevations. However, Forest Service officials said…
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Deschutes County Commissioner Tony DeBone facing GOP primary challenger Scott Stuart
Deschutes County Commissioner Tony DeBone is in the midst of his fourth campaign for the board and faces a Republican primary challenger, Scott…
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Man missing from China Hat Road camp found deceased; authorities say death not suspicious
A 70-year-old man who disappeared from his camp on China Hat Road south of Bend, prompting a public request for information, has been found deceased,…
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Deschutes County road construction update: Week of April 17-23
Here’s Deschutes County’s road construction update for the week of April 17-23: US 20: Ward-Hamby Road Intersection Project (Bend…
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Large illegal indoor marijuana grow raided near La Pine, 2,800 plants seized; 7 people arrested
A lengthy investigation by Deschutes County’s Illegal Marijuana Enforcement Team concluded Wednesday morning with a raid on a large-scale indoor…
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Redmond DUII suspect flees DCSO deputy, arrested and jailed after pursuit
A Redmond man allegedly driving drunk fled a Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy trying to pull him over at a mobile home park west of Redmond Tuesday…
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Deschutes National Forest, Crooked River Grassland due $41 million for wildfire risk reduction efforts
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced on Monday 10 initial landscapes to receive $131 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law investment to…
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Hwy. 97 pursuit of DUII suspect ends with ‘Stop Sticks,’ PIT maneuver — and K-9 Ronin’s bite
Bend police and Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies pursued and tried to pull over a suspected drunken driver on Highway 97 early Tuesday morning,…
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Deschutes County officials, USFS speak to fire safety concerns along China Hat Road south of Bend
With the clearing of various campsites around Bend, several houseless people are congregating in less restricted areas, including U.S. Forest Service…
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State delays decision, extends comment period on proposed land sale to Thornburgh Resort
The Oregon Department of State Lands has extended until July 1 the public comment period on the potential sale of the 400-acre Cline Buttes Tract to…
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DCSO deputies pull burning pickup at China Hat Road camp to safer spot
Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies called to a pickup fire Saturday off China Hat Road south of Bend were unable to get it out with extinguishers,…
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High Desert Scenario paintball field SE of Bend hosts Airsoft games
The High Desert Scenario paintball field southeast of Bend held an Airsoft open-class event on Saturday. The gates of the paintball/Airsoft field…
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