You don’t need AI to figure out why some big businesses invite government oversight. Over the last few days, leaders of major ...

Oregon has new rules for building new homes with fire resistant materials. The landscaping around the new home? The state defensible space code is voluntary. The state fire marshal created a model ...

As Central Oregon students return to school, the state is seeing a new low in kindergarten vaccination rates. That comes amid a measles outbreak and public health professionals urging people to get ...

A matcha booth that started at the NWX Farmers Market in Bend plans to keep popping up at events and markets throughout the year, with the goal of opening a brick-and-mortar or drive-thru coffee shop ...

Voting rights groups and Democratic officials are looking to defend against what they see as possible election interference from the Trump administration ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, now ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday kept in place a lower court’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s embattled plan to place new restrictions on mail ballots for this year’s midterm elections. The ...

Central Oregon residents are being asked to turn off unnecessary lights at night to help protect migrating birds passing through the region this fall. Central Oregon sits along the Pacific Flyway, a ...

The cross-country season has just started and Summit’s Bjorn Blankenship is thinking about the races months down the road. And the races are bigger than the Intermountain Conference and state ...

When the U.S. Forest Service announced in January that it would be closing 30,000 acres of Deschutes National Forest southeast of Bend for a wildfire reduction project, Steve Putnam canceled the ...

As state leaders seek the right recipe for wildfire resilience, one homeowner near Sisters is leading the charge. Christina Maier’s home in the wooded Tollgate neighborhood, a short walk from the ...

The Oregon Health Authority is awarding $97.1 million in new grants across the state. These grants are part of the $197.3 million the federal government has provided Oregon this year to improve rural ...