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The Deschutes County Public Safety Campus soon will become a temporary home for people with nowhere else to go.  Nonprofit ...
Helicopters, tankers, smokejumpers and rappellers joined forces with ground crews to tackle a fire that broke out Monday ...
The last recall petition that made it to a vote in Deschutes County was in 2014, Dennison said, when Kay Walters and Sharon ...
Nearly 4,000 people have been told to evacuate or prepare for evacuation in Deschutes and Jefferson counties. The fire jumped ...
The Alder Springs Fire, which sprang up in Jefferson County on Monday, continued growing overnight while remaining completely ...
The first large fire of the year in the tri-county area burned through around 800 acres of dry scrubland and juniper in ...
Gov. Tina Kotek has, for the second time this summer, invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act, this time for the Alder ...
It’s not specific only to Bend in Deschutes County residents, that goes back to Tom McCall years. This is from Maureen Sweeney from Bend. Sweeney: We’ve been concerned about this for 20 years.
There are still many unknowns about the 2026 race for Deschutes County Commission. What is known is that it will not be like ...
Deschutes County Sheriff Kent van der Kamp confirmed Tuesday he plans to step down Aug. 31, just eight months into his first ...
Deschutes County could have a new city on the map, possibly the first one in Oregon in 17 years. This week, county officials scheduled a public hearing on the matter for next month. A local ...
A California judge has tentatively decided to disclose documents related to an internal investigation of Deschutes County Sheriff candidate Kent Vander Kamp to the Deschutes County Sheriff’s ...