While the case of a brutally beaten Madras boy has prompted years of legislative efforts to increase the sentences of criminals who leave victims…
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Two young Bend men found themselves stuck 200 feet up while rappelling down Smith Rock’s Red Wall late Friday afternoon when their climbing ropes…
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Some Obsidian Middle School eighth-graders got a chance Friday to take hands-on learning to a whole new level, collaborating to build tech projects…
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The environmental group Oregon Wild has sounded the alarm and started a petition, claiming the Forest Service is pushing ahead with what’s become a…
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A snowshoer from Redmond suffered a knee injury in a fall while descending Tumalo Mountain Friday morning, prompting a call for help and a rescue by…
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The 2022 “short” session of the Oregon Legislature adjourned Friday, a few days before its constitutional deadline, and two Central Oregon lawmakers…
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Arizona jurors have convicted a Terrebonne, Oregon man of second-degree murder and other charges stemming from the disappearance of a mining claim…
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A Gresham woman wanted for her alleged role in the execution-style killing of a Bend man last fall tried to flee Portland police in a stolen pickup…
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By doing what she loves, a Bend woman has found a way to keep herself busy: Baking, to take her mind off of what’s happening to her family and…
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The smell of smoke and the sound of smoke alarms alerted four residents to escape a fire that damaged their northwest Prineville home Thursday…
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Masks will be welcome but not required in most settings at Oregon State University and OSU-Cascades beginning Saturday, March…
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Monica Melkonian wanted the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine. It was only one shot, and then she would be protected against the virus. So she was…
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A fire in equipment at the Bright Wood Corp. plant in northwest Madras prompted evacuation of workers in one building at the facility Thursday…
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As part of the first phase of the city’s Wilson Avenue Corridor Project in Southeast Bend, the Wilson Avenue and Ninth Street intersection will be…
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Mark Beare hopes to bring some of his Ukrainian co-workers here to Central…
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Search-and-sniff activities are saving lives. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office K-9 unit stages monthly training for its K-9s, and it’s…
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“When you’re doing it, it seems so harmless, and you’re like, ‘I’m fine. That could never happen to me’ — until it…
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What’s legal, when it comes to marijuana in Deschutes County, and what’s not? A new website — from the people who enforce the sometimes confusing…
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Two weeks after endorsing a Bend Police Department recommendation and declaring the months-old Second Street homeless encampment an “unsafe campsite”…
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Sasha Spektor is organizing efforts to help the people of Ukraine, including her aunt, uncle, and grandfather all lacking major resources in the city…
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