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The City of Bend and the Oregon Department of Transportation are putting the finishing touches on designs for the Hawthorne Overcrossing, a planned $33 million bicycle and pedestrian bridge to span U.S. Highway 97 in the middle of town at Hawthorne Avenue.  The agencies plan to share new details about the bridge landing space, nearby […]

Teens riding electric bicycles and e-motorcycles keep making local headlines; most recently, on Oct. 2, when two 13-year-olds, in separate incidents, collided with vehicles. Both survived, yet the boy riding an electrical motorcycle was admitted to St. Charles Medical Center in critical condition, and the other kid, riding a Veo e-bike, suffered significant road rash. […]

The Bend Park & Recreation District is taking a closer look where to build a long-desired — and disputed — footbridge spanning the Deschutes River near the southeast edge of Bend.  But now that the district is halfway done with a two-year effort to identify and analyze possible locations, it’s becoming clearer that the best […]

As if the race for Deschutes County sheriff wasn’t sufficiently fraught, another investigation has been added to the hopper.  On Aug. 5, the Oregon Government Ethics Commission moved to investigate Interim Sheriff Ty Rupert’s alleged misuse of county resources during his current campaign for sheriff. Rupert was appointed interim sheriff by Deschutes County commissioners in […]

The City of Redmond is moving ahead with a new retail and vending company at the Redmond Municipal Airport, even with a judge set to rule on whether the City violated government contracting law during its selection process.    Aviano LLC, the airport’s current concessionaire, filed a complaint July 30 in Deschutes County Circuit Court alleging […]

Energy developers who use heat from the earth to create power want to explore a broader swath of the Newberry Volcano for the super-hot rock that lies miles underground.  The Deschutes National Forest is considering a request from the Bureau of Land Management to open 30,000 acres on the flanks of the volcano southeast of […]

A collision between a driver and an electric motorcycle rider on Oct. 2 in Bend’s Medical District has left the 13-year-old rider in critical condition. At approximately 7:58 pm, the Bend Police Department responded to a motor vehicle crash between a white Dodge minivan and a Sur-Ron e-motorcycle at the intersection of NE Neff Road […]

Faculty and administrators at Central Oregon Community College reached a tentative agreement over salaries Oct. 2, averting a strike scheduled to begin Oct. 5.  The new employment contract will raise full-time faculty salaries by 13% to 27% and create “substantial” increases for part-time faculty, according to a Friday press release from the Oregon Education Association, […]