WASHINGTON — States do not have time before November’s midterm elections to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating overhauls of their mail-in-voting systems, two dozen ...

More than 200 quilts were on display throughout the Village at Sunriver for the Mountain Meadow Quilters Guild’s 38th annual quilting show on Saturday. “Quilting is addictive,” said sales manager and ...

Flames eating their way through ancient Rome over which Nero ruled, as depicted on the silver screen, hold more interest for Bend theater goers than does the threatened destruction by fire of the ...

The Akawa Butte Fire is the highest priority fire in the country, in terms of resource allocation. That’s according to fire officials and Governor Tina Kotek, who was in Sisters Friday afternoon ...

Oregonians won’t vote in November on whether to ban hunting, fishing, livestock farming and animal research after backers of a widely criticized initiative failed to gather enough valid signatures to ...

Firefighters assigned to the Akawa Butte Fire have been through a lot in the last two days. The battle rages on. On Wednesday morning, crews were working to rein in a fire that had grown 5,400 acres ...

Evacuation areas in Sisters increased at 11 a.m. Thursday a result of the Akawa Butte Fire. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office also confirmed at 11:50 a.m. that a home in the Stevens Canyon area ...

Following several days of increased wildfire activity across Central Oregon, residents woke up Tuesday to heavy smoke after plumes settled across the region overnight. Air quality across Central ...

The recent flurry of letters and opinion pieces regarding automobile caused traffic congestion reminded me of the old saying about planting trees. “The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago.

Police shouldn’t pull people over for traffic stops because of the race of the person being stopped. In Oregon, the Legislature passed House Bill 2355 in 2017 with the aim of capturing the data to ...

Plans to ensure critical transportation, water and fuels corridors exist after a devastating regionwide earthquake need more urgent attention, experts said PORTLAND — If the “Big One” — the ...

Marked decrease in activity of the Dendroctonus Pine Beetle in the infested district near the head of the Metolius River, was reported by Dr. F. C. Craighead, forest service entomologist from ...