Cafe Chairel,' 'Free Leonard Peltier' two features critic Makenzie Whittle recommends at BendFilm Festival, Oct. 8-12 in Bend.

Jerry Wilken, 77, passed away peacefully with family by his side on September 21, 2025, after a battle with cancer. Born in Lexington, Nebraska, to Calvin and Ruth Wilken. As a boy, he lived on the ...

Film buff Makenzie Whittle recommends a variety of short films playing at the 2025 BendFilm Festival, which begins Oct. 8 in Central Oregon.

Students at the new Catholic high school in Central Oregon aren't using iPads or laptops in the classroom. Working from a classical curriculum designed by the Chesterton schools network, students ...

More than a dozen Oregon mayors, including Bend’s, issued a joint letter Monday denouncing attempts by the federal government to deploy the Oregon National Guard to stop what President Donald Trump ...

Oregon Republicans say they’ll push to refer the measure to the November 2026 ballot if it passes The Oregon Senate on Monday in a 18-11 vote passed a long-awaited transportation bill that would ...

Blue Mountain Wildlife’s new clinic near Pendleton will expand capacity and improve care for injured wild birds.

By the fall of next year, Oregon State University’s new wave-energy testing facility off the coast of Newport could be kicking out its first volts of electricity as companies begin testing devices ...

States are scrambling for the money to fill potholes, plow roads, maintain bridges and pay bus drivers as they confront inflation- and tariff-driven cost increases and declining gas tax revenues.

Firefighters use drip torches to ignite slash piles during a prescribed burn. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management plans prescribed burns of juniper in areas around Baker and Malheur counties between ...

Oregon and the city of Portland are suing President Donald Trump to block the federal government from deploying hundreds of ...

President Donald Trump intends to send troops to Portland, and has authorized “full force” to handle political demonstrations which he says have ruined the city, he announced Saturday. In an statement ...