Award-Winning Author Carter Sickels to Read at OSU-Cascades on May 14 

The award-winning novelist and essayist Carter Sickels will read from his work at Oregon State University – Cascades on May 14 as part of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing’s Distinguished Visiting Writer series. Sickels will present and read from his work at a public event at 6:30 p.m. in the Charles McGrath Family […]

The Environmental Center is thrilled to award more than $15,000 to 12 schools and youth organizations to support garden-based education and outdoor classroom projects across Central Oregon this year. Funded projects range from launching new school gardens and improving existing garden infrastructure to creative solutions for extending the region’s short growing season. In addition, the […]

From replacing hundreds of thousands of single-use items at food cart pods and events to building one of the only adaptive cycling centers on the West Coast, 11 local projects will receive funding through the 2026 Bend Sustainability Fund (BSF), a key grant program in Visit Bend’s broader destination-stewardship strategy that ensures tourism continues to […]

If conditions are favorable on Wednesday, the Deschutes National Forest plans to conduct prescribed burning operations on the Opine 2B and Flank 5 Prescribed Burn units 15 miles southeast of Bend on the west side of Forest Service Road (FSR) 18 just north of FSR 18 and FSR 25 junction and Camp II OHV Staging […]

Dust off your dancing boots! SFF Presents has revealed the official performance schedule for the 2026 Big Ponderoo Music & Art Festival. As the countdown to summer begins, single-day tickets are officially on sale, inviting patrons to experience an intimate festival with world-class performances on Friday, June 26 and Saturday, June 27 in Sisters, Oregon. […]

For those unfamiliar with the region, Central Oregon is often synonymous with Bend. Bend’s rapid population growth and booming real estate market have been widely documented—but what about the surrounding communities? To understand what today’s numbers really mean, we need to put them into context. Let’s start with a quick snapshot of national trends and […]

Deschutes Public Library announced today that the new Central Library in Bend (61956 SE Santorini Street) will open to the public on Monday, May 11, 2026. This comes just less than two years after the official groundbreaking ceremony on the site on May 21, 2024.   “We are excited to share the new Central Library with the […]