Joan was born on March 25, 1931 in Portland to parents Harold LeFevre and LaDonna Swank LeFevre. Joan graduated from Grant High School, Portland in 1949 and later earned both Bachelors and Masters ...

Cascade Natural Gas has decided not to move forward with a proposed renewable natural gas facility at Deschutes County’s Knott Landfill, citing rising development costs and changes in the company’s ...

Dan Lanning is a coach, so he will and has to say differently. But while there are five games remaining in the Oregon Ducks’ regular season, and a potential bowl game beyond that, the season that we ...

Hundreds of high schoolers thronged all four corners of the intersection at Wall Street and Greenwood Avenue in downtown Bend Monday afternoon. Students walked out of school and staged a protest ...

The first comprehensive inventory of the area and volume of western glaciers from Portland State University found 300 have disappeared since the mid-20th century. Six western states, including Oregon, ...

The Deschutes Cultural Coalition is seeking applications for grant funding from the arts, heritage and humanities. Grant funding is sponsored by the Oregon Cultural Trust and Deschutes County. The ...

PRINEVILLE — Nerves were high on Senior Night at Crook County for everyone except one person. Hannah Nizich was certainly nervous as she watched her younger sister stand on the baseline, preparing to ...

Bend’s Jael Cruikshank, Western Region vice president for National FFA, will finish her year-long tenure during the National FFA Convention Oct. 21-24 in Indianapolis, Ind. “Very, very thankful for ...

Developers are beginning construction on what will become a 50,000-square-foot athletic club with a swimming pool, courts and an outdoor food cart pod along Skyliners Road in west Bend. The Skyliner ...

The Bend City Council will swear in a new mayor and two new councilors Wednesday, ushering in what Mayor-elect Melanie Kebler hopes will be an era of progress. Kebler, 40, who has been on the Bend ...

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Three students and a teacher were shot and killed Thursday at Silver Rail Elementary by a teen gunman who was later killed by a bystander. Bend Police confirmed at a press conference Thursday night ...