Prineville Fourth of July fire damages home, outbuilding
A fire burned intensely near Meadow Lakes Golf Course Saturday night, damaging a home, outbuilding and power pole, at a time when the city’s Fourth…
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Cigarette butts spark 2-acre wildfire east of Bend, investigators say
A wind-fanned brush fire off Highway 20 east of Bend late Sunday afternoon, stopped at about two acres by firefighters from several agencies, was…
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Police: 7 men arrested after yelling racial slurs at Black family in Lincoln City
Seven men were arrested after police say they taunted a Black family by yelling racial slurs and using Nazi salutes during a Fourth of July incident…
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Good Samaritans rescue Bend man from Deschutes River
Good Samaritans, assisted by police and fire crews, rescued a Bend man who tried to swim across the Deschutes River near the Bill Healy Bridge on…
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Oregon reports two more COVID-19 deaths, 301 new cases; 10 in Central Oregon
COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 215, along with 301 new cases that push the total past 10,000, the…
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Portland police declare riot, arrest more than a dozen; several officers injured
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police say more than a dozen people were arrested early Sunday after throwing fireworks and mortars as they clashed…
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BPRD summer camp leader tests positive for COVID-19; 7 youth self-quarantine
The leader of a small summer camp at Bend Park & Recreation District’s Juniper Swim and Fitness Center tested positive for COVID-19 late last month,…
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La Pine residents hold their own Fourth of July parade
With many of Central Oregon’s traditional Fourth of July events canceled or scaled back due to COVID-19, some La Pine residents decorated their…
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Gov. Kate Brown meets with OSP troopers who refused to wear masks
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — One day after denouncing Oregon State Police troopers seen on video without face masks in a Corvallis coffee shop, Gov. Kate…
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OSU receives $5.9 million to study environmental health problems
An Oregon State University-led research center has been awarded $5.9 million to support studies aimed at understanding how environmental exposure to…
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C.O. fires on the Fourth stopped small; one burns 94 acres in N. Central Oregon
Central Oregon firefighters spent much of the holiday checking on and putting out abandoned campfires or other small blazes, while one to the north…
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St. Charles Bend update: Hospital has 9 COVID-19 patients, 3 in ICU
St. Charles Bend had nine patients Saturday with COVID-19, including three in intensive care and on ventilators, a drop from the record 11-patient…
Continue Reading Oregon reports 4 COVID-19 deaths, 303 new cases, 12 in Central Oregon
COVID-19 has claimed four more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 213, along with 303 new cases that move the total close to…
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St. Charles ER doctor talks of ‘desperation’ amid record COVID-19 admissions
A St. Charles Bend emergency physician shared what he called a “somewhat grim” message in a video he took outside the hospital’s ER on Friday, amid a…
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Redmond schools offer ‘preview’ of fall return to classes
New Redmond school Superintendent Dr. Charan Kline informed parents and the community on Friday about the current, preliminary plans for a fall…
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Portland police, feds make 10 arrests in federal courthouse attack, riot
Portland police made nine arrests and federal officers made another in an overnight attack on the Hatfield Federal Courthouse in downtown Portland…
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Redmond brings back ‘First Fridays’
With masks in place or in hand, people in Redmond were heading to downtown businesses for the first real ‘First Friday’ in quite some time.…
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Wyden backs bill to help seniors in federally assisted housing amid COVID-19
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Thursday co-sponsored legislation that would provide $1.2 billion to ensure federally-assisted senior…
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Oregon AG highlights first data report on new hate, bias crime, incidents law
Oregon Attorney General Ellen on Thursday highlighted the results of the first Senate Bill 577 report from the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission,…
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Wyden co-sponsors bill to protect firefighters during COVID-19 pandemic
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Friday his co-sponsorship of the COVID-19 as a Presumptive Disease in Wildland Firefighters Act to protect…
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