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Deschutes County is offering a total of $50,000 to help with neighborhood-scale vegetation removal to reduce wildfire risk, the County announced in a press release Thursday.   The funding comes from the annual Fall Fuel Reduction Grant Program. Applications opened Sept. 1 and are due by Sept. 30, although late submissions might be considered if […]

Ezra Oncken, a recent intern for the Source, is going places. A senior at Cascades Academy in Bend, Oncken was named a National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist, along with classmate Angel Morriss. Oncken and Morriss are two of only four Bend high school students to earn that distinction this year. It’s a big deal: about 1.2 […]

Teaching staff at Central Oregon Community College say they’re ready to go on strike after nine months of bargaining for higher salaries.   Dozens of members of the Central Oregon Community College Faculty Forum picketed on campus in Bend on Wednesday, chanting and waving signs while circling the streets outside the Coats Campus Center.   […]

A recent ruling from the state’s labor agency has thrown a wrench into a City of Bend program aimed at spurring construction of new apartment buildings.  In a July 14 decision, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries ruled prevailing wage standards should apply for workers building a 264-unit apartment complex in southeast Bend because it’s […]

In 2019, Redmond was selected to be part of a test.   That was Oregon’s Affordable Housing Pilot Program, a legislative experiment to see if loosening the state’s strict development boundaries could help cities get more affordable housing on the ground faster.   Eight years later, the first homes in that test are under construction. […]

Since Deschutes County Circuit Court Judge Bethany Flint resigned in late July, six candidates have launched campaign committees in hopes of filling that Position 3 seat. (One has since declined to run; another was not qualified.) Several of the candidates the Source spoke with said that many constituents, when hearing about the upcoming judge race, echoed […]

Knowing how to quickly and effectively administer Narcan has become a must-know life-saving technique, right up there with the Heimlich Maneuver and CPR. Most people know that naloxone, a medication commonly called Narcan, reverses the effect of an opioid overdose. But where do you get Narcan and how do you use it? Deschutes County Health […]