When the Legislature created a special 100-acre exception to the state’s land use laws for new housing, the city of Bend was ...

For every green person, or not-so-green person or decidedly ungreen person wondering what the city of Bend might do to push ...

The sun shines through smoke and trees in Bend on Sept. 10. Fires burning to the east and west of Bend led to poor air ...

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Deschutes Brewery recently introduced two new certified organic beers brewed in collaboration with Patagonia Provisions — ...

Central Oregon residents wanting to avoid the Black Friday sales can instead burn off some Thanksgiving Day calories at a state park. The Oregon Park and Recreation Department is offering free day-use ...

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SELCO Community Credit Union is awarding eight Central Oregon educators creative educator grants of as much as $2,500 each to jumpstart their creative project ideas for classrooms. Overall, nearly $82 ...

The sheriff’s race in Deschutes County was one of the most hotly contested local contests on the ballot in the Nov. 5 election, sparking turmoil, lawsuits and even allegations of ...

Bend Police are alerting the public to two types of scams that have recently defrauded local businesses of more than $400,000. In the first, the scammer reaches out to local businesses and nonprofits ...

With a potential Democratic supermajority on the line, a Republican state representative losing by fewer than three dozen ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday confirmed that a person contracted bird flu in a case linked to an ...