The Akawa Butte Fire is the highest priority fire in the country, in terms of resource allocation. That’s according to fire officials and Governor Tina Kotek, who was in Sisters Friday afternoon ...

Friday firefighters responded to an additional 19 wildfires while continuing to contain 50 existing wildfires that started over Wednesday and Thursday. Despite the Red Flag warning across Central ...

Oregon Connects is one of several new nonprofits registered by the Data Center Coalition, an industry group backed by major tech companies Just days before the Oregon Legislature in March passed a one ...

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 ...

Oregonians won’t vote in November on whether to ban hunting, fishing, livestock farming and animal research after backers of a widely criticized initiative failed to gather enough valid signatures to ...

Considering the spring track season that Bjorn Blankenship and Clayton Jero had, the Summit teammates had all the reason to push the envelope and go, go, go. Instead, Blankenship and Jero, who in 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 ...

FORJ Rural and Small-Town Journalism Conference: Join us for our fourth conference for journalists, philanthropists, strategists, and leading academics; 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; free; Bend Campus — Central ...

Jefferson County sheriff candidate Tyler Anderson’s certifications were revoked for life Thursday, July 23, by the Board of the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Anderson is ...

On Friday, Red Cross will hold a blood drive in honor of late Redmond Fire & Rescue firefighter Michael Kienzle. Kienzle, 30, died in early June from acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He joined Redmond ...

If Portland offered the Trail Blazers a blank check to stay, how much would be enough? Next month, when a major deal-cutting deadline hits, the Portland City Council will be faced with that and other ...

Prison rights advocates say the state could be doing more for incarcerated people facing heat in isolated conditions as climate change intensifies As triple-digit temperatures and heat advisories ...