Bend News

A plea deal is expected to end a 2 A1 2-year-old deadly Bend hit-and-run case with a guilty plea - but not to criminally negligent homicide -- leaving the victim's family without closure and feeling robbed of justice, their lawyer said Friday.

Well, right now she's in Central Oregon, but Sandy Silver, who helmed many a community theater production over the past decade in Bend, recently took her directorial talents south.

A juvenile was shot in the abdomen, apparently accidentally, at a home on Crooked River Ranch Friday morning and later flown to a Bend hospital for treatment, Deschutes County sheriffs deputies said.

Old Mill Brew Werks reopened May 15 in the south-end-of-Wall-Street space recently vacated by Brickhouse.

Theft - A theft was reported at 6:57 p.m. May 18, in the 1900 block of Northeast Third Street.

Bond Street Market sales associate Valerie Hagen says she is used to seeing homeless people hanging out around downtown Bend--many of them are regular customers.

There are more than a dozen "cold cases" in Central Oregon. In Bend, there are around five.

Shooting Products Company Looks to Accommodate Future Expansion Bend-based shooting products company Nosler, Inc.

The Bend Park & Recreation District board will look much the same after Tuesday night's election.

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor announced Wednesday 44 projects in 11 states -- including one in Bend -- that will receive $20.8 million in WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grants.

The city of Bend says it projects $1.3 million in savings and no premium increases on its new employee health insurance plan for the upcoming plan year, which begins Aug.

A La Pine mushroom hunter who got lost west of town and failed to return to his companions' meeting Tuesday night prompted a search in the cold, snowy woods west of town that found him hours later - cold, wet and tired but otherwise okay, authorities said.

Bend high senior Melissa Hubler is on her way to being a Duck "I love the culture of Eugene," said Hubler.

Cascade Clarinet Consort and Siskiyou Saxophone Orchestra, directed by music faculty Rhett Bender, will present "Music of Spring" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 20, in the Music Recital Hall on the Southern Oregon University campus, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland.

Bend officials say it is time to stop subsidizing operations at Pilot Butte Cemetery, which the city has owned for 100 years.

The first bike-share station in Bend is scheduled to open Friday. The private station will serve people who work in offices at 50 S.W. Bond St.

A 19-year-old Warm Springs woman was arrested on DUII, assault, drug possession and other charges Saturday after her minivan slammed into one of four vehicles stopped for a red light on Highway 97 in Redmond, causing a chain-reaction crash that injured herself and three others, one critically, police said.

A 20-year-old Redmond man who reportedly swerved to miss a deer lost control of his SUV, which sheared off a power pole near Terrebonne early Sunday.

Hundreds of women motorcyclists will be riding their "iron horses" from all over the U.S. and Canada.

Sundays for churches are usually meant for worship services -- but this Sunday was a little different for one church in Bend.