ibex hiring 300 customer service agents in Bend
ibex, a leading provider of contact center services and other business process outsourcing solutions, has announced the company is immediately hiring…
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Wildfire smoke prompts DEQ air quality advisory for Central Oregon
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued an air quality advisory Friday for Central Oregon, south-central Oregon, the Rogue Valley and…
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Hikers who ran into trouble due to heat rescued near George Lake
A Salem man who experienced a heat-related medical emergency while hiking with his wife on the Pacific Crest Trail near George Lake west of Sisters…
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2 Redmond teens riding on outside of car thrown, seriously hurt in sudden stop
Two Redmond teens riding on the outside of a car driven by their older sister were seriously injured Thursday night when she suddenly stopped and…
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Oregon reports 5 more COVID-19 deaths, 268 cases amid signs spread is slowing
COVID-19 has claimed five more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 475, the Oregon Health Authority reported Friday, along with…
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Mt. Bachelor proposes new hiking-mtn. biking, snow-cat trails, snow-making guns
New trails and snow-making guns are proposed improvements at Mt. Bachelor out for public review and comment from the Deschutes National Forest’s…
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Tumalo Road to close west of Old Bend-Redmond Hwy. for roundabout project
Tumalo Road will be closed west of the Old Bend-Redmond Highway starting next Tuesday to complete Stage 2 of the Old Bend-Redmond Highway / Tumalo…
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Officers fatally shoot suspect in Portland protest killing
A man suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland last week after a caravan of Donald Trump backers rode through…
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Watch live: Gov. Kate Brown holds news conference
Gov. Kate Brown is holding a news conference at 11 a.m. to discuss Oregon’s efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19, the ongoing protests in Portland,…
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Bend woman charged with DUII, assault in NE Bend injury crash
A Bend woman was charged with drunken driving and assault Thursday night after a two-vehicle crash on Highway 20 in northeast Bend that sent two men…
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Budget cuts mean fewer OSP Fish, Game troopers hunting for poachers
As the hunting season kicks off in Oregon, many will buy tags and set out in hopes of feeding their families. However, while this is going on, others…
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Redmond art panel announces Homestead Bike Pump Track mural contest
REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Redmond Committee for Art in Public Places has announced Homestead Bike Pump Track as the next location for a student art…
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Redmond Senior Center receives $23K grant from St. Charles Health System
The Redmond Senior Center has received a $23,000 grant from St. Charles Health System to help ensure the area’s most vulnerable seniors have basic…
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Think Wild’s Beaver Works Oregon program launches ‘River Neighbors’ initiative
Beaver Works Oregon, a program of Think Wild, invites people who live and play along the Deschutes River to get to know beavers as shapers of…
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Prineville Police join in DUII high-visibility enforcement over Labor Day weekend
The Prineville Police Department will be participating in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s High-Visibility Enforcement national…
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Baker County improves, comes off Oregon’s COVID-19 County Watch List
Gov. Kate Brown announced Thursday that Baker County has succeeded in reducing the spread of COVID-19 sufficiently enough to be removed from the…
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Older Crook County students could be back in class Sept. 14, if positive metrics hold
If the COVID-19 numbers remain favorable, Crook County’s older students could be back in school for in-class learning a week after their younger…
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‘Game-changer’: Rapid, daily virus testing coming to Pac-12
The Pac-12 could be playing football and basketball sooner than expected. The conference has announced each of the 12 schools will soon have the…
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Ex-Sunriver police officer acquitted on official misconduct charges
After two days of testimony, a Deschutes County judge late Thursday found a former Sunriver police officer not guilty of official misconduct for…
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Tumalo Road motor home fire spreads, destroys garage, outbuildings
A motor home caught fire and sparked a blaze that spread to one-car detached garage and several small outbuildings along Tumalo Road west of Highway…
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