A 17-year-old Bend resident was arrested on criminally negligent homicide, DUII and other charges after a pickup he was driving on the dry bed of…
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The Board of County Commissioners has approved Deschutes County’s fiscal year 2021-22 budget following a series of public meetings and hearings by…
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The City of Bend on Monday declared a local state of emergency in response to the ongoing extremely high temperatures forecast by the National…
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With the summer season here, many tourists have begun to return to…
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To escape the heat wave, just about everyone is cranking up the air conditioning, if they have…
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Service organizations and volunteers at the homeless camp along Hunnell Road in northern Bend are doing their best to keep people safe from the…
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Contact between two groups of Deschutes River floaters led to a confrontation and fight Sunday evening among juveniles on a street in northwest Bend,…
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An unlicensed contractor from Lodi, Calif., arrested a month ago for a fraud scheme in Central Oregon has been arrested on five more theft by…
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The 2021 Oregon Legislature approved on its final day Saturday $13.8 million in state-backed bonds for a Student Success Center at OSU-Cascades that…
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Though Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is planning to reopen the state June 30, leaving it up to individual counties to make decisions about masking and…
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A Redmond man pleaded not guilty Monday to numerous charges in a drugged driving hit-and-run crash that killed a 90-year-old Redmond man crossing…
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The Redmond School District announced Monday it has selected Justin Nicklous as the next principal of Elton Gregory Middle…
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Crook County 911 is implementing a new emergency medical response system this week, designed to improve response times and first responder…
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As if record or near-record heat wasn’t enough of a challenge, hundreds of Bend-area residents were dealing with power and water outages on…
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Two abandoned structures burned Sunday afternoon on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, quickly spreading to the surrounding brush before fire crews…
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Intense. Prolonged. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. Abnormal. Dangerous. That’s how the National Weather Service described the historic heat wave…
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Two Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies and several bystanders helped rescue two men who were drowning at Lake Billy Chinook Saturday evening,…
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Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue had a busy Friday night, with three simultaneous rescue missions for an injured hiker near Broken…
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Firefighters on Saturday reported more progress on week-old wildfires on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation and in Klamath County, but new, small…
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An illegal multi-shot set of fireworks ignited a 100-foot section of arborvitae trees lining the baseball diamond outfield at Stover Park in…
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