Multi-billion-dollar grocers and retailers such as Walmart and Amazon were among the most listed employers on Oregonians’ ...

After an all-time worst winter of skiing in Bend, and during a summer in which wildfires are blanketing the upper Midwest and Northeast under unprecedented levels of smoke, the decision by the ...

The state of Oregon may drill a hole thousands of feet down to find out if it would be a good place to store carbon. It’s called geologic carbon sequestration. Oversimplified: Dig a hole. Inject ...

Wildfire smoke that has blanketed Central Oregon in recent days has sent many residents indoors — dusting off air purifiers and pulling N95 masks out of drawers — as air quality deteriorated across ...

Colorado author Chelsea Iversen will visit Bend Tuesday, the same day her latest book, “The Whisper,” sees the light of day. The novel is set in the fictional town of Whisper Ridge, the childhood home ...

Visit any elementary school field in Bend and you’ll see a sign posted near the gate with Bend-La Pine Schools’ (BLPS) community use guidelines. In essence, they say the fields are open to the public ...

Marked decrease in activity of the Dendroctonus Pine Beetle in the infested district near the head of the Metolius River, was reported by Dr. F. C. Craighead, forest service entomologist from ...

Services: A celebration of life will take place on Saturday August 8, 2026 @1:00 at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in the Middle Sister building in Redmond ...

A Bend oncologist traveling on the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has been cleared to leave a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska, where he was the lone American placed in ...

When the U.S. Forest Service announced in January that it would be closing 30,000 acres of Deschutes National Forest southeast of Bend for a wildfire reduction project, Steve Putnam canceled the ...

Jamie Collins holds a sizable lead in the Deschutes County commissioner race for Position 1, outpacing incumbent Tony DeBone in unofficial election results Wednesday. Collins received 54.7% of the ...

ALFALFA — In last month’s primary election, Alfalfa Fire District voters rejected a levy that would have funded two firefighter and EMT positions in the rural department. A large majority — 77% — were ...