Latest Top Stories

Local News

Tension high in Powell Butte as PacifiCorp considers it for transmission line location

More than 100 residents in Powell Butte showed up Tuesday night to hear about and protest against a…

Livestock

Study links wolves to livestock revenue losses and increased costs

A new study supports the concept that Oregon ranchers face significantly higher indirect costs from wolves than the…

Local News

Warm Springs radio station loses key funding under Trump-era cuts

Tribal station KWSO faces program reductions after losing 40% of its funding

Environment

Cram Fire grows to 77,000 acres, shifts direction southward

The Cram Fire in Jefferson and Wasco counties increased in size Wednesday as wildfire crews battled high temperatures…

Breeze Airways to start new routes from Redmond Airport.

Bend

Breeze to begin flights from Redmond to Burbank, Las Vegas

New airline steps in just days after Avelo announces departure

Local News

Madras council fires police chief

The chief of two years says city administrator, who called for his firing, has anger management issues

News

CENTRAL OREGON HISTORY: Excitement mounts for gold mine that never was

A mining rush near emerges in 1915 at Steelhead Falls

Bend

St. Charles Madras listed as ‘at risk’ amid Medicaid cut concerns

St. Charles Madras was among four Oregon hospitals on a list of 300 rural hospitals deemed at risk…

Crimeandjustice

Family of man killed in Madras police shooting to sue for wrongful death

The family of a Madras man who was killed in a police shooting in February has notified the…

Opinion

CENTRAL OREGON HISTORY: Central Oregon pioneer was sister of Prineville founder

Sarah Prine Foren’s husband became associated with the Vigilantes