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Proposal aims to expand La Pine mosquito control beyond city limits

April 14, 2021 10:35 am KTVZ

The city of La Pine conducts a mosquito control service. However, the boundaries for the control area only include the city limits.…

Sisters Rodeo Queen, community now looking ahead to next summer

April 14, 2021 11:02 am KTVZ

The Sisters Rodeo community is hurting, but already looking ahead.…

Oregon Senate votes to extend grace period for past-due rent

April 14, 2021 5:39 pm The Associated Press

The Oregon Senate has voted in favor of a bill that would give tenants, struggling with financial hardships due to the pandemic, more time to pay…

Oregon reports three more COVID-19 related deaths, 816 new cases

April 14, 2021 4:09 pm KTVZ News Partners

There are three new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,449, the Oregon Health Authority reported…

Forest Service plans 200-acre prescribed burn Friday west of La Pine

April 14, 2021 3:53 pm KTVZ News Partners

Fuel specialists with the Deschutes National Forest plan to conduct a prescribed burn this Friday on about 200 acres of national forest lands seven…

Epic drought means water crisis for Klamath Basin on Oregon-California border

April 14, 2021 3:18 pm The Associated Press

Federal officials announced Wednesday that farmers who rely on a massive irrigation project spanning the Oregon-California border will get 8% of the…

Deadly virus now confirmed in La Pine feral domestic rabbits

April 14, 2021 11:41 am KTVZ News Partners

The US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory has confirmed rabbit hemorrhagic disease in a feral domestic rabbit…

Oregon Dept. of Forestry begins projects to curb wildfire risk in C. Oregon

April 14, 2021 10:06 am KTVZ News Partners

The Oregon Department of Forestry is putting to work in Central Oregon some of the $5 million it was granted in January by the Oregon Legislative…

80th Sisters Rodeo canceled for second straight year

April 13, 2021 10:12 pm Barney Lerten

Yet again, the 80th Sisters Rodeo – and its many fans and the community — will have to wait another year, as the rodeo board voted unanimously…

Portland police again declare riot after Police Assn. building set ablaze

April 13, 2021 11:53 pm KTVZ News Partners

People in a crowd of demonstrators set fire to the Portland Police Association building Tuesday night, prompting police to declare a riot for a…

‘She’s pretty tough’: SE Oregon toddler in hospital after swallowing tiny battery

April 14, 2021 11:54 am KTVZ

While a grandmother in Bend waits and worries, a 2-year-old southeast Oregon girl has been rushed to California’s Stanford University Hospital, three…

Redmond councilors approve UGB expansion for affordable housing project

April 13, 2021 7:52 pm KTVZ

Redmond city councilors unanimously approved an ordinance to expand the city’s urban growth boundary (UGB) and a master development plan for the…

Deschutes County Jail inmate hospitalized after heroin overdose

April 13, 2021 8:51 pm KTVZ News Partners

A Bend man booked into the Deschutes County Jail on a felony warrant Tuesday afternoon told staff he had ingested a large dose of heroin and soon…

Fewer C. Oregonians got paused single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine

April 13, 2021 9:05 am KTVZ

Bend resident Tina Chouinard was perfectly fine with getting the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine on March…

Charged up: Bend bike shops seeing demand spike for electric bikes

April 13, 2021 6:20 pm KTVZ

Electric bikes are a hot product in Bend, as more people experience the outdoors with an assist to their pedal…

High winds spread Tumalo burn barrel fire; shed destroyed, resident cited

April 13, 2021 2:34 pm Barney Lerten

High winds Tuesday spread a burn-barrel fire in Tumalo to a shed that was destroyed as a result, also prompting a citation for the resident who…

Several Bend skiers, boarders stand out at regional competition

April 13, 2021 11:21 am KTVZ

Young skiers and snowboarders from Central Oregon had a strong showing at the USA Snowboard and Freeski Association (USASA) Regional Championships at…