Bend , Ore. – A young boy on the porch of his North West Crossing home Saturday confirmed with Bend police a disturbing encounter. An unidentified man stopped his pickup truck, came up to the boy’s home and began asking very specific questions. The boy said Read More
La Pine, Ore. – 65 year-old Robert Lee Hughes was found Sunday, located around 9 a.m. According to deputies, Hughes was deemed OK and no longer considered missing. Deputies had said Hughes left his La Pine-area home on Wednesday to visit family in the Read More
La Pine, Ore. – Authorities report a head on fatal crash in Deschutes County Sunday evening. Deputies said a northbound 1991 Lexus was traveling on Hwy 97 when it crossed the centerline striking a southbound 2016 Ford Fusion head-on. The driver of the Lexus, a 29 Read More
Madras, Ore. – Raine Austria was sentenced to 180 days in jail and three years probation during her sentencing in Jefferson County Court on Wednesday. She has already served 171 days. The toddler was found dead one morning in March 2015. According to the indictment, Read More
Portland, Ore. – Oregon transportation officials are asking federal rail authorities to suspend crude oil trains in the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia River Gorge until there is a better understanding of what caused a fiery derailment there this month. State Read More
Bend, Ore. – Bend officials and Engineers have spent two days trying to address problems with a passageway channel at the city’s Whitewater Park. The Bend Park and Recreation District closed the channel last week after several complaints of users that were Read More
Sisters, Ore. – The Deschutes and Ochoco national forests and Crooked River National Grasslands have lifted the temporary area closure on federal lands surrounding the Akawana Fire, sparked by lightning last week near Lake Billy Chinook. 95 percent containment has Read More
Madras, Ore. – A 30-year-old Madras man was arrested yesterday on charges he was the gunman dressed in black with a skeleton mask who held up the Madras Burger King around closing time last Friday night. Police had been actively investigating the armed robbery, Read More
Bend, Ore. – A 21-year-old Bend man was killed early yesterday morning when his car left a curve on South Century Drive and rolled several times, according to Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies. Stephen Chase Mickel, was heading west on South Century Drive, Read More
Bend, Ore. – 42-year-old Joel Matthew Hoffman was arrested last week on charges of sexually explicit interactions with a Florida girl on a smartphone app. He was arrested again Wednesday, accused of similar actions with two Willamette Valley girls, one of whom he Read More
