Local News

It's early afternoon on a recent October day and it feels like January in the foothills of the eastern Cascades southwest of Sunriver. An early onset of winter-like weather has left the slopes of nearby Odell Butte blanketed in snow and a few pockets of sunshine aren't enough to move the mercury out of the 40s.

I'm walking down an old logging road with Asante Riverwind, the local organizer for the Sierra Club. We're stalking the perimeter of a recent timber sale that his organization is challenging in federal court.

By Wednesday, the city of Bend hopes a construction crew will begin the heavy work needed to lay a 30-inch pipe across two channels of Tumalo Creek and down Skyliners Road. It will be the first step in completing the city’s controversial surface water improvement project, and one that opponents and many city council candidates […]

Americans overwhelmingly oppose the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq. Even many veterans say the post-9/11 war on terror was a mistake. Antiwar sentiment is the majority opinion when it comes to the prospect of future conflicts. Of the two countries the U.S. is currently most likely to attack militarily, nearly seven out of ten people […]