Deschutes County News

The Portland State University School of Business Administration received $8 million from an anonymous MBA alumnus and his wife .

Deschutes County is expected to pay $4.5 million more into the Public Employees Retirement System and $1.5 million more in employee health care costs in fiscal year 2014, according to the proposed budget released last week by County Administrator Tom Anderson.

Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Prineville returned to a relatively normal operation this afternoon after an hours-long lockdown prompted by a threatening phone call.

The Redmond Medical Staff is donating $10,000 to Deschutes County Health Services' Nurse Family Partnership, a program that introduces vulnerable first-time parents to caring maternal and child health nurses in Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook counties.

Hagg Lake south of Forest Grove is one of only two Oregon lakes that might be sheltering a fish that could make one lucky fisherperson a millionaire.

County clerks in Deschutes and Crook counties say today is the last day to mail your ballots if you expect them to reach the clerks' offices by election Tuesday.

The Central Oregon Fire Chiefs Association announced Tuesday that outdoor burning season across Deschutes County will end on Sunday, June 2 -- or sooner, if the warming, drying weather calls for it.

The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office is increasing daylight traffic patrols to enforce violations of seat belt and child-restraint laws from May 20 through June 2, the office announced.

Fire season has begun weeks earlier than usual in parts of Oregon, a result of drier-than-normal conditions so far this spring, the U.S. Forest Service reiterated Monday.

After 16 years of crunching numbers and balancing budgets, Deschutes County Finance Director Marty Wynne is retiring effective June 30 and heading to Arizona to be with his grandkids.

A Bend woman who fell about 30 feet while climbing Saturday at Smith Rock State Park became stuck with her climbing partner on a narrow ledge more than halfway up a 500-foot rock face, prompting a four-hour, successful rescue operation, authorities said.

Your article “Firefighting options for the east county are debated," published April 14, failed to mention a seventh option and one that the Deschutes County commissioners would most likely prefer.

The Oregon Safety Belt Overtime Campaign is a statewide selective traffic enforcement program that seeks to reduce the number of motor vehicle-related deaths and injuries by increasing public awareness of laws regarding the three most prevalent factors contributing to traffic crash injuries: safety restraint use, speed, and impaired drivers.

An inmate who walked away from a Deer Ridge Correctional Institution work crew Tuesday in Bend was arrested this morning in Beaverton, according to Oregon Department of Corrections.

An 81-year-old La Pine man died when his car left Huntington Road and crashed into a tree Thursday evening, Deschutes County sheriff's deputies said.

A former demolition-debris dump site on Bend's Westside and a former shooting range in Redmond are two of possibly several "brownfield" sites that could get a jump-start toward a new future through a $400,000 grant to Deschutes County announced Thursday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Benchoff is employed at Deschutes County Mental Health Services as program manager.

"You know it doesn't surprise me -- unfortunately it's been creeping up every year for the last several years.

The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office's LEADER limo will be used Friday to reward a fifth-grade class at La Pine Elementary School for turning in money they found.

A federal judge's court filing shows a "settlement in principle" has been reached in a suit brought by three former prosecutors against Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty .