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City of Bend officials continue to favor voluntary compliance, but also deploy plain-clothes Code Enforcement officers to businesses
With a few extra layers of clothing and some good route selection, you’ll be sneaking in quite a few extra miles
This story has been updated. Voters all across the United States came out in record numbers for the 2020 presidential election—but in Deschutes County, turnout was slightly lower than the last presidential election year. At the same time, the county added nearly 30,000 voters to its rolls this time around. Turnout in 2016 in Deschutes County […]
By now, a great deal of fretting has been done over the state of voting amid a coronavirus pandemic. Many conspiracy theories have been thrown out about the potential for fraud in voting during a time when everyone is supposed to be social distancing. Even in Oregon—a bastion of mail-in voting and the first state to take […]
As families adjust to a new school year in online education, Central Oregon tutoring businesses, pod networks and child care programs are mobilizing to fill gaps in education and child care.
NEWS—To dredge or not to dredge? Plans to move forward with Mirror Pond stalls out again, though some progress is made towards establishing a fish ladder.
NEWS—Wildfire expert and County Forester Ed Keith talks to the Source about why the recent fires happened all at once, what causes fires in Oregon and what people in Bend are doing to keep the community protected from megafires in the future.
As Oregon and California set new wildfire destruction records this past week (3.1 million acres burned in California and 1 million in Oregon), climate change experts argue this is just the beginning. “Climate change dries out the grassland and will continue to make summers longer and hotter, with longer fire seasons,” explained Brad Chalfant, founding […]
Bend PD Chief says city police did not violate state sanctuary law when allowing ICE officials in their cars
As masks remain mandated in public spaces, the deaf and hard of hearing community speaks out about the issues they’re encountering
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