Prineville News

The Oregon Badlands Wilderness Area is in the high desert just east of Bend. Members of central Oregon's Friends of the Oregon Badlands, along with Prineville Bureau of Land Management employee Gavin Hoban, have been presented the Public Lands Foundation's Landscape Stewardship Certificate of Appreciation and Citation.

Arrangements: Whispering Pines Funeral Home, 185 NE 4th St., Prineville, OR 541-416-9733. Services: No service will be held at this time.

The Deschutes County sheriff's office says a man changing a flat tire along Highway 126 last night was hit by a passing vehicle.

A pickup overturned on a remote stretch of Oregon highway, killing a 12-year-old girl and pinning her grandfather underneath the truck.

"An oasis of aid - for the helpers, too" Judy Martinez, 32, right, and her daughters Maria Martinez, 9, and Daisy Martinez, 12, left, put away food last week following lunch at the Oasis Soup Kitchen in Prineville.

The Crooked River flows along Paulina Highway on the way to Post and Paulina. Kimberly Bowker / The Bulletin If you go Getting there: From Prineville, take the Paulina Highway, also known as state Highway 380, southeast through Post and Paulina.

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for snow and blowing snow from 6pm this evening to 4pm Sunday for the Cascades.

The Salvation Army 755 N.E. Second St., Bend; 541-389-8888 United Way of Deschutes County 1130 N.W. Harriman St., Suite A, Bend; 541-389-6507 NeighborImpact 20310 Empire Ave., #A110, Bend; 541-617-7291 Bend's Community Center 1036 N.E. Fifth St, Bend; 541-312-2069 Redmond food bank 2303 S.W. First St., Redmond; 541-548-2380, ext.

Dozens of high-wage technology jobs could be coming to Prineville, courtesy of a company so secretive its name isn't even known by those in city government.

A 55-year-old John Day man died Friday when he lost control of his sport utility vehicle on an icy road, crossed into the oncoming lane and hit a pickup.

The collapse of a Bend real estate development company has resulted in charges against 13 people in what prosecutors say is the largest Oregon fraud case to emerge from the national real estate boom and bust.

A federal grand in Eugene returned indictments Thursday against 13 individuals on a variety of mortgage and loan fraud charges arising out of the collapse of Desert Sun Development , a company previously headquartered in Bend.

"This little guy here, when he was a baby, he would truck off by himself away from his brothers and sisters, so my sisters started calling him trucker," owner Charlotte Oakley, 59, of Redmond, said of her black Labrador retriever.

The experiences of five former students at Mount Bachelor Academy formed the basis of the state's allegations of abuse and neglect at the private school for troubled teens, a recently released investigative report revealed.

The academy's better days ... Many students and parents attest to Mount Bachelor Academy's successes.

When Hunter Hassell of Bend was a fifth-grader at Lava Ridge Elementary, his teacher, Ryan Shaffer, taught the class about the importance of watersheds and clean water.

After receiving voter approval of its $41.58 bond measure to build five new facilities at locations through its district, Central Oregon Community College is taking the first steps to begin the construction processes.

Richard Breneman is arraigned in Crook County Court Monday for the murder of his roommate, 54 year old Voy 'Doug' Powell.

A Prineville education center will close by Dec. 9, costing between 69 and 72 workers their jobs.

Shawn Manning, shot 5 times, expected to survive A former Redmond-area resident is expected to survive after being shot five times Thursday in a mass shooting at a Texas Army base that killed 13 and injured 30.