Jack Harvel

The Bend City Council and the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners have both announced plans and timelines to clear large homeless encampments. The City of Bend said it’ll clear the encampments on Hunnell Road on July 17. City Manager Eric King said the decision to clear the camp stemmed from health and safety concerns identified […]

Deschutes County took a first step toward wolf reimbursements, two years after grey wolves settled in the county. The Wolf Depredation Compensation and Financial Assistance Committee met for the first time on June 26 to establish rules of the committee that is tasked with establishing reimbursement for farm animals and direct grants for wolf-prevention strategies. […]

T he Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty Days celebration is back after three years of COVID-era closures. The weekend-long event from June 23 through June 25 is a 54-year-old tradition on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, commemorating the signing of the Treaty of 1855. That treaty ceded about 10 million acres of land to the United States and […]

A 15-year-old Bendite died on Saturday after being hit by a minivan in northeast Bend. The collision happened on NE Highway 20 and Dean Swift Road around 4:30 pm, when a blue Dodge Caravan turned right onto the highway and hit the teen, who was riding on a e-bike with a passenger on the back. The […]

On June 1, the owners of the file transfer software MOVEit notified the Oregon Department of Transportation that their software contained a vulnerability that could lead to hackers obtaining the personal information of Oregon driver’s licenses or ID cards. ODOT said after learning about the vulnerability, it “activated its emergency response procedures” and worked with […]

The Oregon State Senate established a quorum on June 15, ending the six-week walkout of Senate Republicans. It’s the longest walkout in the state’s history and the fifth time Oregon Republicans have staged a walkout since 2019. Back with just a little more than a week left in the session, the Senate has been speed-running […]

Deschutes County Commissioners voted two to one to move forward with code amendments that would restrict people from camping on publicly owned property. Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson proposed the camping ban, saying it would allow his office to enforce no-camping zones and a two-week limit on campsites, similar to the federal government’s regulations on […]