Bend, Ore. – The Deschutes Public Library continues its Winter series of free, hands-on computer classes for adults in September/October. The formal classes offered at the Downtown Bend, East Bend, Redmond, Sisters, and Sunriver libraries introduce users to Read More
Bend, Ore. – Newport Avenue Market announced to employees today that the specialty grocery store is now an employee owned company. “Newport Avenue Market is successful because of our employees,” said Rudy Dory, who with his wife Debbie founded the company in 1991. Read More
Salem, Ore. – Senator Ginny Burdick of Portland was elected yesterday to take over the number two spot: the majority leader. Burdick replaces Senator Diane Rosenbaum of Portland who will now take on the position of “president pro tem”. In that role Read More
Jackson County, Ore. – Oregon State Police say that speed may have played a role in the death of a Washington state man who died yesterday on I 5 near the Siskiyou Summit when he crashed his motorcycle. Early information shows the driver of the 2004 Yamaha Read More
Washington DC – Today, Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden asked Senate leaders to include emergency funding for wildfire suppression in any short term funding agreement that is considered this week to keep the federal government running. They also asked for Read More
Salem, Ore. –State Treasurer Ted Wheeler today announced that Lisa Massena has been named the Executive Director of the new Oregon Retirement Savings Plan, an effort to increase retirement security by making a retirement plan available to all Oregonians lacking access Read More
Salem, Ore. – Today the Raise the Wage coalition—a broad statewide group of workers, business owners and community organizations—filed a ballot measure that would increase Oregon’s statewide wage floor to $13.50 over two years and restore the power of cities and Read More
Bend, Ore. – Bend Police say a Klamath Falls resident used a knife to commit a robbery at the K Market last night around 9:08 pm. Brian Keith Gifford allegedly forced the store clerk to give him an undisclosed amount of money by threatening the clerk with a Read More
Portland, Ore. – More than 200 Citizen-Airmen from the Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Fighter Wing are scheduled to return from an Eastern Europe deployment throughout this week. Yesterday, the first four F-15 Eagles returned to the Portland Air National Read More
Grants Pass, Ore. – On Saturday at about 3:30 PM, OSP Troopers and emergency personnel responded to the report of a two vehicle crash on Highway 99 near Fruitdale Drive in Grants Pass. According to Sergeant Jeff Allison, a 1988 Chevrolet S-10 pickup was traveling Read More
