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Local contractor indicted by FBI on 23 felony charges connected to allegedly defrauding federal programs
The FBI indictment of local businessman and longtime contractor Joel Matthew Caswell on charges of committing nearly two ...
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Oregon
Klamath Irrigation District becomes more water wise with new app
KLAMATH FALLS — Klamath Irrigation District is transitioning to a new technology that will help it be more ...
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Undergrad tuition to rise again at all Oregon’s public universities, up nearly 30% from a decade ago
The average inflation-adjusted cost of undergraduate tuition for Oregon residents at the state’s seven public universities next year ...
Environment
Federal spending cuts could idle Central Oregon trail maintenance
Each summer the Deschutes Trails Coalition dispatches a small crew into the forest around Bend to improve trail ...
Sports
Four local sprinters proving to be best in the state
The days are ticking down until the Intermountain Conference track and field championships and the boys 100 and ...
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Bend set to hike fees for road maintenance
Last year, Bend residents and businesses began paying a new fee to help maintain the city’s roads. Now, ...
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Hermiston family wins $20,000 on ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’
HERMISTON — A tiny Chihuahua, a couple of clumsy falls and a big laugh helped a Hermiston family ...
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Timber severance tax ignites wildfire funding debate
Timber harvests would be taxed based on value, rather than log volume, under a controversial Oregon bill that ...
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Ridgeview softball and Summit baseball player voted Athletes of the Week
The votes are in for The Bulletin’s Athletes of the Week for April 14-19 Brezlyn Hagemeister, a sophomore ...
Business
Business people on the move
Todd Prior has joined First Interstate Bank as a credit analyst in Bend. In his role, Pri or ...
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Bend, Deschutes County elected officials to meet on homeless camps, wildfire
Elected leaders from the city of Bend and Deschutes County will come together Monday to discuss two of ...
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Where’s a good place to go birdwatching in Oregon?
On an average night in Multnomah County, about 60,000 birds fly over the state, making their way to ...
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Prineville groundwater tests planned to find contamination source
Prineville residents facing an ongoing groundwater contamination problem may soon get some answers about what is causing the ...
State
Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read welcomes injunction of Trump election order
As a federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked parts of President Donald Trump’s sweeping election executive order, Oregon’s ...
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Kyron Horman’s disappearance in Portland remains unsolved on 15th anniversary
June 4 will mark the 15th anniversary of the disappearance of 7-year-old Kyron Horman from Skyline Elementary School ...
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Homeless camps in Junipers east of Redmond next on list of public land sweeps
Amid a push by local government authorities to remove or consolidate the region’s largest homeless encampments on public ...
Events
Explore calendar April 26-May 2: Wildflower Hike
Outdoor Calendar Saturday 4/26 Bird Walk: Join the Deschutes Land Trust and Kara Jakse for a bird walk ...
Business
St. Charles Bend patient stay shorter than statewide average
The number of days a patient stays at St. Charles Bend is lower than the statewide average for ...
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Special district election: Bend-La Pine school board candidates discuss DEI, challenges, iPads
Candidates for the Bend-La Pine school board race on the May 20 ballot met for a forum Wednesday ...
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Short walk, high rewards at Cline Falls in Redmond
My wife and I went to Cline Falls on one of the recent sunny, relatively warm weekends and ...
Sports
Caldera boys tennis hands Summit its first IMC loss in 21 years
It had been more than two decades since an Intermountain Conference team had beaten Summit boys tennis in ...
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Prescribed burn puffs smoke west of Bend
A 450-acre prescribed burn in the Deschutes National Forest west of Bend kicked up a cloud of visible ...
Music
Grammy winner Robert Cray and band play the blues in Bend
If you want a reminder of just how much the music industry has changed in the past few ...
Nation
Chavez-DeRemer’s labor department threatens ‘serious legal consequences’ for talking to journalists
This story was originally published by ProPublica. A top official in the Department of Labor this week informed all ...
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Funding milestone reached for wildlife crossing near Black Butte
An ambitious project to build Oregon’s largest series of wildlife overpasses has reached a significant funding milestone. More ...