Near the woodsy high desert town of Bend, Oregon, winter brings an abundance of light, dry snow to the slopes of the Eastern Cascades, capping the mountain peaks with piles of the powdery stuff ...

A wind-driven wildfire threatening homes and causing evacuations in Central Oregon has grown to 3,889 acres, officials said Thursday.. The Darlene 3 Fire, which started around 2 p.m. Tuesday in ...

A massive wildfire had charred more than 2,415 acres in central Oregon as of Wednesday morning, a rapid increase from 1,700 acres Tuesday evening, authorities said.. The Darlene 3 Fire was 30% ...

Officials have identified the two people who died as a result of a Central Oregon avalanche. On Wednesday, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office named 52-year-old woman Susan Renee Skjersaa and ...

The first large wildfire in Oregon this year has grown to cover 3,000 acres of federal and private land in central Oregon, fire officials said. The Butte Creek fire, which started on Sunday about ...

Many Central Oregon cities started fire restrictions this week as the forecast for much of the state predicts dry, warm weather and little precipitation ahead. As the weather heats up, burn bans ...

For 2025, the Central Oregon Future Fund will award $280,000 in grants, funded entirely by revenue generated from Travel Oregon Transient Room Tax collections that are managed by Visit Central Oregon.

Officials on Wednesday identified a couple killed in an avalanche in central Oregon. Terance Olaf Skjersaa, 57, and Susan Renee Skjersaa, 52, were from Bend, Oregon, about 140 miles east of Eugene ...

As pediatricians in Central Oregon, we have seen firsthand the immense strain caused by the shortage of pediatric psychiatric and mental health treatment facilities in our region and across the ...

Sisters, located in central Oregon outside of Bend, was just certified as the second international dark sky community and seventh overall dark sky place in Oregon by DarkSky International, a ...

Two skiers were killed in an avalanche in Central Oregon on February 17, 2025. Central Oregon Avalanche Center (COAC) posted to Instagram around 11:30 a.m. PST on February 18, 2025 to say that they ...