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Jim Green says one solution for Oregon’s worst-in-the-nation reading scores is a governor’s executive order away. Green should know. For 25 years, he worked the halls of the Capitol, first as a lobbyist and then as executive director of the Oregon School Boards Association, which represents 1,400 elected members across the state’s 197 school districts. […]

For the last six years, a class of journalism students at the University of Nevada, Reno, has kicked off each semester by filing their first Freedom of Information Act requests. The assignment: Request copies of complaints sent to the Federal Communications Commission about their favorite TV show, a local radio station, or a major broadcast […]

A brush fire, named The Riverview Fire, spread to 11.8 acres by 4pm Tuesday, March 17 in the 52800 block of Timber Lane Loop in La Pine. People living in the area north of Burgess Road and west of Huntington Road and along the Little Deschutes River were ordered to leave immediately. A temporary shelter […]

The Redmond School District is reviewing its school attendance boundaries as the city grows and enrollment patterns change. The district, which has a total of 13 schools, says uneven housing development throughout the area has resulted in a higher enrollment at some elementary schools than others. Current projections show that Sage Elementary School is expected […]

In what police suspect was a targeted event, a late-night home invasion turned fatal in the gated Awbrey Glen golf community on Bend’s northwest side on March 12. Zachary Dale Zamzow Douglas, 36 and a Bend resident, allegedly tried to break into the home on the 3500 block of NW Braid Drive around 11:45 pm. […]

A Redmond teenager died on March 13 when the motorcycle he was a passenger on smashed into a turning Subaru driver in southeast Bend. At around 6:28 pm, Bend Police officers responded to the crash site at the intersection of SE Second Street and Miller Avenue. Traveling north on Second Street, the motorcyclists, who were […]