Lakeview News

Search crews have found the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in southeast Oregon last week.

A blind Chinese activist who was the focus of a nearly monthlong diplomatic standoff says he hopes the Chinese government will conduct a thorough investigation into his illegal punishment for the past seven years.

Tony Nicholls, a 48-year-old pilot of Meridan, Idaho, is missing after taking off in this plane Thursday from Lakeview in snowy and gusty weather.

A wide-ranging air and ground search was under way Sunday in remote, rugged southeast Oregon and northern Nevada for a single-engine plane that failed to make it home after a trip to Lakeview, Lake County Sheriff Phil McDonald said.

Fire crews were working hard Saturday to contain and extinguish a fire that had blackened more than 460 acres eight miles east of Lakeview, just off state Highway 140.

Oregon State Troopers pulled over a Veneta-area man on Highway 395 north of Lakeview and discovered over 60 pounds of pot in his trunk.

Bend police are asking the public for help as authorities in three counties look for a missing Bend man who last was heard from earlier in the week and was due home from a camping trip several days ago.