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Filling In Inner Bend

Local groups encourage the community to weigh in on what could be Bend's next vibrant district

Looking for the next great investment for a new business, or a mixed-use residential development?

By Nicole Vulcan Oct 18, 2017

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Heath Care in Turmoil: St. Charles Lays Off Workers

Oregon Referendum on Hospital Tax Set for January

By Magdalena Bokowa Oct 18, 2017

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Separation Anxiety: Pacific Power Warns of Scammers

G et a weird call from Pacific Power recently?

By Magdalena Bokowa Oct 18, 2017

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Clearing Up Mirror Pond

The latest on the proposed plan for dredging Bend's most contentious body of water—which thus far, isn't funded, permitted or approved by local governing bodies.

T his week, the Bend Chamber of Commerce published an article in its "Bend Business Edition," stating permits and funding were in the "final stages" for the proposed $6.7 million dredging project at Mirror Pond—information the Chamber later discovered was erroneous.

By Magdalena Bokowa Oct 11, 2017

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Footnotes on OSU-Cascades funding

From our 10/12/17 story titled "Did OSU-Cascades Get the Shaft?," further details on the FTE funding, from the Higher Education Coordinating Commission: * The 2017-18 column does not include $12.5 million in Engineering Technology Sustaining Funds for which distributions have not been determined.

Oct 11, 2017

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Health Care For All?

As another Affordable Care Act repeal collapses, the once improbable single payer health care movement gains steam

Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., Medicare for All Act is now backed by 16 Democratic senators, and co-sponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. With it, talks of universal health care are making headlines again, and actually gaining steam.

By Magdalena Bokowa Oct 4, 2017

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Displacing the Displaced

Redmond's homeless find blockades to encampments. Deschutes County says it's a "and-use issue; COID plans to sell parcel for a reported $8 million.

Estimates vary, but soon 200 to 400 people will be finding a new place to call "home," packing up their motorhomes, tents and tarps and hitting the road to find unoccupied land on which to settle.

By Magdalena Bokowa Aug 30, 2017

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Bringin' Down the Noise

Finding a solution to noise complaints in Bend

Residents of the River West neighborhood and business owners at the Century Center meet with mediators to find a solution to noise complaints in Bend.

By Anne Pick Aug 30, 2017

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Smooth and Seamless

Heavy eclipse planning pays off

Warnings of severe traffic, calamity, fuel and food shortages never really materialized in Central Oregon during the Great American Eclipse on Aug. 21 — but sometimes it's better to over-hype than be unprepared.

By Magdalena Bokowa Aug 23, 2017

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Milli Fire Expands

The Milli Fire near Sisters expanded over the Aug. 19-20 weekend to approximately 11,236 acres as of Tuesday morning.

By Nicole Vulcan Aug 23, 2017

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Nena Springs Fire and Evacuation Notices Lifted

The Nena Springs fire on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation has not grown in size since Aug. 20, fire officials said Tuesday.

By Nicole Vulcan Aug 23, 2017

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Our Picks

6th Annual Board Fair

Mon., Oct. 23, 4-5:30 p.m.
@ Deschutes Brewery Public House – Interested in becoming a board member? You'll have a chance...
Halloween Warehouse Party

Sat., Oct. 28, 8 p.m.-2 a.m.
@ Deschutes Brewery Warehouse – This year, be abducted into a universe of cosmic costumes,...