In Focus ▶️ Free farm-to-table meal kits for Sisters seniors through pilot programSeptember 25, 2023▶️ Bend boy who won 2-year cancer battle is paying it forward to Make-A-WishSeptember 20, 2023▶️ Inside the program that finds adult support for kids of incarcerated parentsSeptember 19, 2023▶️ New Downtown Bend mural is 1st in Oregon for national Greetings Tour projectSeptember 18, 2023▶️ Bend-La Pine’s ‘Kindergarten Camp’ for placing kids is rarity in OregonSeptember 13, 2023▶️ Racing airplanes at 400 mph: Central Oregon pilot explains what it takesSeptember 12, 2023▶️ New book chronicles 1,000 Oregonians’ trip to support NYC after 9/11September 11, 2023▶️ Inside Bend’s St. Francis Catholic Church multi-million dollar restorationSeptember 7, 2023▶️ Bend model railroad club gives you chance to hop aboard railroading’s pastSeptember 5, 2023▶️ Bend’s Burger Friday guy celebrates one year of social media burger reviewsSeptember 1, 2023▶️ Sanoma and Goober: Terrebonne woman pens book on historic endurance race winAugust 31, 2023▶️ Local high schoolers in Solar Car race rely on teamwork through adversityAugust 22, 2023 Previous headlines ▶️ Using AI to sniff out wildfires: smart smoke detectors tested in OregonAugust 17, 2023▶️ Only a number: 85-year-old Bend woman completes 100th half marathonAugust 15, 2023▶️ Mark Wilder of the “Wilder Show” set to perform at Crook County FairAugust 11, 2023▶️ Central Oregon Pee Wee Rodeo Association is teaching a new generationAugust 3, 2023▶️ Wamic, Oregon – population 123 – has America’s largest lawnmower racetrackAugust 2, 2023▶️ Darrel Aschbacher: Crook County football legend-turned-pilot rememberedJuly 25, 2023Prescribed burns vital in Oregon, but the only federal training is in FloridaJuly 13, 2023▶️ Bend’s Riley Ranch Reserve: a hidden gem with a unique journal featureJuly 10, 2023▶️ La Pine baseball tournament honors man who was always there for communityJuly 7, 2023▶️ Bend 4-year-old’s seizures vanish after surgery to remove half his brainJune 30, 2023▶️ ‘Rare’ golf club sends anchor on hunt for the history of ‘Shotgun Willie’June 29, 2023▶️ Rubbish Roads: Junk litters every quiet country mileJune 29, 2023▶️ Jim Belushi mixes weed business with show business in Southern OregonJune 28, 2023▶️ Educated cows, GPS join forces for wildfire land management on High DesertJune 22, 2023Dorrell Wenninger wore same suit on air every day for a year. 1 person noticed.June 21, 2023▶️ Meet the crew that moves tons of snow, trees and rocks to open McKenzie PassJune 19, 2023▶️ Army vet builds special wood benches each time Crook County wins state titleJune 15, 2023▶️ Bend hair salon recycles everything — even the hairJune 15, 2023▶️ Women make up half of Jefferson County firefighting and EMS forceJune 14, 2023▶️ ‘He was a Sisters bull’: The story of Red Rock, the Hall of Fame rodeo bullJune 9, 2023▶️ 71-year-old High Desert steer roper still riding and winningJune 7, 2023▶️ Camp Sherman Store and its unique history up for saleMay 31, 2023▶️ Redmond 13-year-old has budding baking business after Bluey birthday cakeMay 30, 2023▶️ Baby Nigerian Dwarf goats raised in Terrebonne. That’s it. That’s the story.May 25, 2023▶️ Twinning! Madras Elementary has 7 sets of twinsMay 18, 2023▶️ Skateboarding encouraged at new Three Rivers School clubMay 16, 2023▶️ Mountain View kids take on ‘Les Misérables’ while theater teacher on leaveMay 10, 2023▶️ Bend veteran is leading effort for National Medal of Honor HighwayMay 9, 2023▶️ Redmond boxer, 18, at national Golden Gloves; Olympic trials berth at stakeMay 8, 2023▶️ Crook County HS trap shooting team sees interest grow in second seasonMay 2, 2023▶️ Coaches take more holistic approach to training women, girls in sportsApril 27, 2023▶️Bend man paralyzed in ice climbing fall keeps adapting, living — and dancingApril 26, 2023▶️ Longtime Smith Rock eagle nest photographer gives close-up of new eagletsApril 25, 2023▶️ Queen of the mound: Lava Bear Addisen Fisher’s journey to top prospectApril 20, 2023▶️ Prineville police officer saves academy classmate who was chokingApril 18, 2023▶️ 2 Redmond educators named Oregon Career & Technical Ed teachers of the yearApril 14, 2023▶️ Former Olympic boxing hopeful from Bend pivots to teaching next generationApril 11, 2023▶️ Redmond High School wrestling team attributes success to academic coachMarch 31, 2023▶️ Group works to attract beavers, water to parched section of Crooked RiverMarch 28, 2023▶️ Deschutes Co. Jail program aims to stop revolving door of addicted inmatesMarch 23, 2023▶️ 386 belt buckles adorn Bend barber shop’s wall, and each has a storyMarch 9, 2023▶️ Spoken Moto building move keeps its history, opens door to expansionMarch 8, 2023▶️ Wayfinder is here: Meet the Deschutes Library system dumping Dewey DecimalMarch 6, 2023▶️ Meet the 18-year-old Redmond boxing phenom who’s taking on the Golden GlovesMarch 2, 2023▶️ Meet ‘Jim the Coffee Man,’ bringing java and joy to Hunnell Road residentsFebruary 27, 2023▶️ Thornburgh Resort near finish line after 17-year fight?February 23, 2023▶️ Central Oregon author heads to Hollywood for movie, TV series pitchFebruary 21, 2023▶️ 2 Bend Nordic skiers compete for Team USA in FinlandFebruary 16, 2023▶️ ‘I was born for it’: The history of Bend Fire Pipes and DrumsFebruary 15, 2023▶️ From ‘Summer of Smut’ to best-seller: Meet Bend rom-com author Tawna FenskeFebruary 14, 2023▶️ Coyote hunt contests under fire. Many in Eastern Oregon say they’re needed.February 9, 2023▶️ Project Healing Waters helping feed veterans’ souls through fly tyingFebruary 8, 2023▶️ From D&D to cooking, Crook County after school clubs keeping kids engagedFebruary 7, 2023▶️ How millions in grants may bring relief to High Desert childcare droughtFebruary 2, 2023▶️ Local shop helps you make custom skis, snowboards with your own two handsFebruary 1, 2023▶️ 5 months later, what has Bend’s ‘Corky Lady’ made with those 20,000 corks?January 26, 2023▶️ Highway 97 Classic: Culver vs. La Pine wrestling brings kids 4-18 togetherJanuary 25, 2023▶️ OSHA: Eastside Bend Safeway blocked exits a systemic issue, employee saidJanuary 24, 2023▶️ Inside look at the award-winning way Prineville stores, recovers its waterJanuary 19, 2023▶️ Father & son / coach & player on navigating unique basketball bondJanuary 19, 2023▶️ Mobile sauna warms you up before plunge into frigid Deschutes RiverJanuary 17, 2023▶️ We found her! Meet the Centennial Logger’s mystery costume designerDecember 22, 2022▶️ 40 states, 18 months: Redmond mosaic artist finally pieces us all togetherDecember 1, 2022▶️ Central Oregon’s CAMP giving veterinary care to those who can’t afford itNovember 22, 2022▶️ Behind the scenes: Wheeler County Rattlers 6-player football title repeatNovember 22, 2022▶️ Wheeler County Rattlers: 3 tiny Oregon towns for one 6-man HS football teamNovember 10, 2022▶️ Deschutes Public Library dumping 150-year-old Dewey Decimal SystemNovember 7, 2022▶️ Sibling football rivalry: 3 Bend brothers play for different high schoolsOctober 19, 2022▶️’If there’s not horses, what’s the point?’ Meet Terrebonne barrel racing teenOctober 11, 2022▶️ Young artist grabs Bend restaurant mural opportunity by the hornsOctober 10, 2022▶️ Central Oregon high school football participation up, bucking national trendOctober 6, 2022▶️ Central Oregon dog trainer has 4.7 million fans on TikTokSeptember 29, 2022▶️ ‘Be More Like Millie Walk’ honors Larkspur Community Center fixtureSeptember 27, 2022▶️ Welcome to the High Desert highway that is one-of-a-kind in OregonSeptember 21, 2022▶️ Fiddles. Fun. Free-Admission – Now That’s Music to My Ears!September 16, 2022▶️ Bend 18-year-old is the in-demand photographer of social media influencersSeptember 15, 2022▶️ Warm Springs opens new store to promote, celebrate work of local artistsSeptember 5, 2022▶️ ‘I got this’: Remembering the famed ‘Prineville Wheelie’ 40 years laterSeptember 1, 2022▶️ 250-mile runs? Bend ultra runner ‘comfortable with uncomfortable’August 30, 2022▶️ ‘Horse Whisperer’ teaches art of gentling wild mustangs in Central OregonAugust 29, 2022▶️ Inside archeological dig at Oregon caves where people lived 13,000 years agoAugust 22, 2022▶️ International gangs, trafficked labor behind many local illegal pot growsAugust 11, 2022▶️ Red-eye: Oregon fire detection plane looks for new starts in dead of nightAugust 10, 2022▶️ Remote Oregon wildfire cameras become key to finding new smokes quicklyAugust 9, 2022▶️ Eyes in the sky: Married Deschutes fire lookouts share day in their lifeAugust 8, 2022▶️ Bend man completes 3,600-mile triathlon for mental health awarenessJuly 26, 2022▶️ Innovate or die: How retiring Crux leader pushed breweries to be betterJuly 20, 2022▶️ Oregon whitebark pine survival is being tested. All-out effort to save it.July 18, 2022▶️ Bend man continues ‘Five Year Photo’ tradition with lifelong friendsJune 21, 2022▶️ Oregon lithium project can look to Nevada for preview of possible challengesJune 16, 2022▶️ Lithium exploration in Oregon may bring mining boom, environmental fightJune 15, 2022▶️ Come inside Red Rock Corral, the newest addition to Sisters RodeoJune 10, 2022▶️ Central Oregon Book Project compiles stories of the region from 20 authorsJune 7, 2022▶️ ‘Doing something good’: Bend woman turns need into sewing machine passionMay 25, 2022▶️ ‘It was a long shot,’ how a piece of WW II history was saved from a wildfireMay 5, 2022▶️ 3D homes planned for Eastern OregonApril 14, 2022▶️ Sir Sedgwick the Therapy Pig serves as unlikely companion to local veteransApril 12, 2022▶️ Chasing Magic: Jim Belushi finds happiness on Eagle Point cannabis farmFebruary 22, 2022Rally racers hit backcountry to clean up, have fun at Gambler 500June 24, 2021