La Pine businesses struggle after fourth year of Labor Day weekend break-ins, thefts
Two frustrated businesses In La Pine say they have been getting broken into every Labor Day holiday weekend for the past four years, and another…
Continue ReadingTop Stories
Recently soaring Bend, Redmond home prices are now ‘stabilizing,’ appraiser says
Here’s a word not heard often about Central Oregon’s sizzling real estate market for some time –…
Continue Reading
US flag placed atop Bend’s Old Mill smokestacks after 9/11 is still flying high, 20 years later
An American flag that was placed atop one of Bend’s most visible landmarks — the Old Mill smokestacks — shortly after the terrorist attacks on…
Continue Reading
Bend police following OHA guidelines, not requiring Covid-19 vaccinations of officers
Police in Bend, and all of Oregon, may not fall under the statewide health care provider Covid-19 vaccination…
Continue Reading
Sisters spa owner, cleared earlier of abuse, assault charges, indicted after 10 more alleged victims come forward
More than a month after abuse and assault charges were dropped against the owner of Hop in the Spa in downtown Sisters, Michael Boyle has been…
Continue Reading
A.R. Bowman Museum expansion will add rotating exhibits to Prineville’s ‘cultural district’
Prineville’s A.R. Bowman Museum on Main Street has shared the history of Crook County since it first opened in 1971. Now, it’s expanding beyond its…
Continue Reading
Study for Oregon’s forest industry tallies nearly $6 billion in losses from 2020 Labor Day wildfires
Oregon’s forest-dependent businesses and industries suffered an estimated $5.9 billion in economic losses as a result of the Labor Day wildfires…
Continue Reading
Gov. Brown orders public flags lowered to half-staff in honor of fallen firefighter
Gov. Kate Brown on Wednesday ordered all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Thursday, September…
Continue Reading
Yearly ‘Point in Time’ count of Central Oregon’s homeless finds 13% increase this year
This year, Central Oregon’s annual Point In Time Count, a one-night count of those experiencing homelessness in the region, determined that there…
Continue Reading
Bend Park and Rec Board welcomes new trails ‘action plan’
The Bend Park and Recreation District is reprioritizing trail projects by applying new scoring methodology to projects identified in a comprehensive…
Continue Reading
‘Happy to be back’: As in-person classes resume in Redmond, teacher’s ‘heart is full’
Elementary school students returned to classes Tuesday around the High Desert, and with that special first day back in person coming amid a rise in…
Continue Reading
Smoky skies are slowly becoming a late-summer norm for Bend
If you have only been living in Bend for a few years, you would not be wrong thinking smoky summers are usual, but only recently have the…
Continue Reading
Bend man, a ‘sizable’ meth trafficker, arrested in Hwy. 20 traffic stop, held on $1 million bail
A Bend man and suspected major methamphetamine dealer was arrested on numerous drug charges Monday in a traffic stop on Highway 20 west of Black…
Continue Reading
Gov. Brown, state officials, doctor plead for Oregonians to wear masks, get vaccine
Governor Kate Brown will hold a press availability on Tuesday at 11 a.m., to discuss Oregon’s ongoing response to COVID-19.…
Continue Reading
Crime Stoppers: Madras PD release security photo, seek tips to find truck stop theft suspect
Police released a security-camera image Tuesday as they seek help from the public in identifying and locating a recent theft suspect who they say…
Continue Reading
Bend-area man charged with harassing woman online, seeking to lure ‘teen’ who was officer
A 36-year-old Bend-area man accused of harassing and sending unsolicited nude photos to a Bend woman in recent weeks was arrested Sunday night after…
Continue Reading
Fire that prompted evacuations SE of La Pine believed caused by bowhunting smoker’s carelessness
A wildfire that prompted evacuation of about 20 homes in the Sun Forest Estates subdivision southeast of La Pine on Saturday afternoon apparently was…
Continue Reading
Oregon communities come together to celebrate perseverance, a year after historic wildfires
One year after wildfires tore across Oregon, two communities gathered on Labor Day to celebrate being together one year…
Continue Reading
Dense wildfire smoke brings more patients to Redmond urgent care clinic
With thick wildfire smoke shrouding the views across much of Central Oregon, and poor air quality to show for it, many people are being negatively…
Continue Reading
As Oregon students return to school, OHA, ODE urge vaccinations, limited gatherings, more outdoors
As thousands of Oregon students return to in-person classes, state health and education officials issued a new set of guidelines Tuesday that urge…
Continue Reading