Bend News

Charlie Troop, 1-82 Cavalry awaits aerial transport via CH-47 Chinook aircraft for the first leg of a complex insertion and extraction mission out of a landing zone near Boise Sunday.

The Bulletin will update items in the Police Log when such a request is received.

Mike Stewart, 31, left, a Central Oregon Community College aviation program student, and Jared Douglas, assistant chief flight instructor at Leading Edge Aviation, adjust their night-vision goggles prior to flying last week at Bend Municipal Airport in a photo taken with a fish-eye lens.

Eight-year-old Tate Rabstien, of Bend, uses a squeegee to push ink through a stencil onto a shirt with the help of street artist and graphic designer Va-Jo during a Rise Up International art camp on Monday.

A driver apparently blinded by the rising sun struck another car head-on on the Knott-Baker Road overpass south of Bend Monday morning, but both drivers came away with only minor injuries, Deschutes County sheriff's deputies said.

A 65-year-old Eugene man was critically injured Sunday when his motorcycle left the Paulina Highway about 30 miles east of Prineville, briefly went airborne and tumbled several times, Crook County sheriff deputies said.

BEND, Ore. -- Construction has started on a new K-8 school in Warm Springs that will shorten the commute for many children.

It was a rude awakening early Friday morning for one Bend family, as a drunk man stumbled into their apartment and later was tracked down by police.

Many in Bend have walked or driven up Pilot Butte, but on Saturday, Central Oregonians ran up it -- some doing multiple climbs.

Police say a 55-year-old man in an electric-powered wheelchair somehow ended up face-down in the irrigation canal behind the Larkspur Trail in southeast Bend on Saturday.

Four occupants sustained non-life-threatening injuries after a one-car crash on U.S. 20 in eastern Oregon Saturday afternoon, police say.

There seems small doubt that Crook County is to be treated to another picturesque mix-up in connection with its judge, which may pale to insignificance such now historical incidents as cement yarns, auto affidavits, culvert controversies, county sewing contracts, Ananias club letters and the host of other official tidbits which have gone so far to ... (more)

Here's something to do if you find yourself in central Oregon this week: Dip a paddle into dark waters and drift under stars.

For Father's Day weekend, a lot of people are thinking about their dads and the influence they've had.

Now, they play unconventional psych-pop that draws influence from global sounds , particularly African music.

Tom and Linda Davis witnessed the Pole Creek Fire last year from their living room window in the Tollgate subdivision northwest of Sisters.

Adam Grantham blasted a three-run home run in the bottom of the first inning Friday night at Vince Genna Stadium to lead the Bend Elks past the Cowlitz Black Bears 6-2 in West Coast League baseball action.

Two Old Hippies, manufacturers of Breedlove and Bedell Guitars and Weber Fine Musical Instruments, is pleased to announce the addition of Harry Fleishman as Head of Research and Development for their facilities in Bend, Oregon.

Pat Clark of Atelier 6000 Printmaking and Book Arts Studio in Bend has been named an “Inspirational Oregonian" as part of the Meyer Memorial Trust's “I Am Oregon" award.

SANTIAM PASS: A Bandon area man is facing multiple charges following an alcohol-involved serious injury single vehicle crash that occurred overnight at the Santiam Pass junction of Highway 126 and Highway 20. The man and his 5-year old son received non-life threatening injuries for which they are being treated at a Bend hospital.