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Never mind that most of the snow has melted. Give kids a light dusting and some slick grass and they’ll still shoot down the hill. On Sunday, a…

Bend firefighters said they were called early Sunday to a home filling with smoke north of town, then spent hours dismantling the fireplace area to…

What is the world coming to? That is a question many have asked themselves since Friday’s elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut,…

For some unspeakable acts, there are no words. “It’s indescribable,” a Bend eighth-grader said Saturday. “There are no words…

Jefferson County Fire District crews stopped a fire at a vacant Madras home from making it to the interior Friday evening, limiting damage to about…

Oregon State Police arrested a Prineville woman Friday on felony theft and forgery charges, accused of embezzling over $227,000 from the Redmond…

Dignitaries, veterans and townsfolk from the La Pine area gathered on a snowy, cold Saturday morning for the community’s first “Wreaths…

Avoid time-consuming and costly mistakes by learning from someone who’s “been there, done that.” Continuing January 8, 2013, SCORE…

Redmond bareback rider Steven Peebles collected his initial first-place check here during the ninth round of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo,…

Eighteen children dead, six adults dead and after a school shooting in Connecticut, a nation is wrought with grief. Bend psychologist Michael Conner…

Crook County sheriff’s deputies said Friday they are seeking tips from the public in hopes of recovering a 1,000-gallon diesel fuel tank and…

Across the country from the chaos in Connecticut, many here in the Northwest took to Facebook to express their shock disbelief Friday morning. One…

Bend-La Pine Schools Superintendent Ron Wilkinson offered his “deepest sympathies following Friday’s Connecticut school shooting rampage,…

Shock, sorrow and condemnation extended from Massachusetts to Oregon and across the nation in the wake of Friday’s horrific school shooting in…

Bend Fire Chief Larry Huhn will retire in April 2013 with 30 years of service to the community. The process to find a new chief is scheduled to begin…

KIDS in the GAME and BendBroadband have teamed up this holiday season to bring more children in Madras access to positive youth sports programs. KIDS…

The dedicated volunteers at Equine Outreach (www.EquineOutreach.com) have a PSA announcement for the Bend community: When you donate your car to…

Central Oregon drug agents arrested a Washington state man and two Bend residents Thursday as they broke up alleged heroin sales out of a northeast…

Schools and other government agencies rarely go public to refute rumors, especially of violence, in order not to end up spreading those rumors and…

Plans to bundle up under a warm blanket with a cup of hot cocoa, far away from city light pollution, to watch a dazzling meteor shower, may be…