Deschutes County News

Searchers with Deschutes County Search and Rescue look for clues Saturday morning in the spillway beneath the Pacific Power and Light Dam on the Deschutes River near Newport Avenue in Bend.

It started with yelling and glass breaking near the back door of a house on Quince and 37th Street in Redmond around 11:00pm Wednesday.

A man was shot and killed by a woman after he broke into her house in Redmond and tried to attack her with what authorities called an "improvised weapon" as she defended her children.

OnPoint Community Credit Union announced it plans to open branches in Deschutes County now that a charter expansion means anyone who lives or works in the county is eligible to join the member-owned institution.

A man was shot and killed by his ex-wife after he broke into her house in Redmond and tried to attack her with an "improvised weapon" as she defended her children, authorities said.

Deschutes County will close the Paulina/East Lake Road at nightfall today, a road department spokesman said in a press release this afternoon.

OnPoint Community Credit Union has been given state approval to expand into Deschutes County, the Portland-based financial institution announced on Tuesday.

The percentage of women employed by Deschutes County in technician fields, service maintenance, and sworn protective services is significantly less than that of the greater public, according to new data.

To read more about Putnam's time in Bend, check out "Frontier Publisher: A Romantic Review of George Palmer Putnam's Career at The Bend Bulletin, 1910-1914, with an Extended Epilogue," by Jim Crowell, an account released by the Deschutes County Historical Society.

A sentence in the contempt case against real estate developer Tami Sawyer and her husband,Kevin Sawyer, a former Bend Police Captain.

On October 25, 2009 at about 1:57 p.m., Deputies from the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office and paramedics from the Redmond Fire Department were dispatched to a single vehicle, injury crash near the intersection of Highway 97 and Eby Avenue in Terrebonne.

On 10-25-09 Hillary Williams and her Black Lab left Devils Lake Trailhead at about 1:00 pm with intentions of summiting both South Sister and Middle Sister.

As she pulled up to a stoplight in Bend on her way home from work Oct. 13, Rhonda Chesney looked out the window and saw her brother, David "Too-Tall" Wade, riding by on his bicycle.

Like many teenagers, the youngster lurking in Linda Stephenson's yard and nursery earlier this week had a weakness for junk food.

Redmond Oregon is the type of place that people like to say that they are from. A sleepy town wrapped in the mountains of central Oregon with a population of around 15,000 souls.

Published: October 15. 2009 4:00AM PST A loud bang jolted patients in the waiting room at Mosaic Medical in Bend on Wednesday afternoon as construction workers hammered away on new exam rooms, a nurse's station and offices funded by federal stimulus money, expanding the clinic's capacity.

"You can see the Crooked River Ranch people are clearly against the closure," said Sherman Kirchmeier as he hold pages of signatures.

A Bend male changes his plea to guilty in a case of criminally negligent homicide and unlawful use of a weapon in a year old samurai sword stabbing death.

Deschutes County is doing a complete rewrite of its Comprehensive Plan for the first time in 30 years.

A change of plea this morning for the Bend teenager charged with first degree murder in the death of his mother's boyfriend.A Kaleb Brown stabbed Tracy Rost with a sword at their home in Bend last October.A Today Brown pleaded guilty by Alford plea to the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide.A He also entered an Alford plea on two counts ...