As a health and public safety reporter for The Bulletin I spend most of my time researching crises to inform the public on how these emergencies will affect them and who they can turn to find support.

Another boutique hotel is coming to Bend’s north end, replacing the bankrupt Shilo Inn across from Macy’s. Field & Stream Lodge Co. recently pasted a sign over Shilo Inn’s former advertising ...

Oregon health officials have downgraded a recreational use health advisory for Odell Lake in Klamath County to a precaution level after water monitoring found cyanotoxin levels below recreational ...

Thank God for modern medicine. Without it, so many adults wouldn’t live so long and so many babies wouldn’t live at all. And yet people don’t always listen to what doctors recommend. They find the ...

When is the first day of school for the 2026-27 school year in Central Oregon? For Bend-La Pine Schools, first graders through sixth graders, ninth graders and half of the kindergarten class all start ...

Wine and beer leaders said tariffs are crushing their already struggling industries, resulting in retaliation from U.S. trading partners, uncertainty and higher business costs. The discussion was held ...

BOISE, Idaho — A federal judge says Idaho can’t prosecute doctors who perform abortions to protect a pregnant person’s health or prevent self-harm. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill made the ruling ...

In 2001, the Forest Service issued the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (2001 Rule) and designated the first Inventoried Roadless Areas (IRAs), which were based on the roadless area reviews. The rule’s ...

NEEDTOBREATHE: The Americana, alt-rock band will perform; 5-10 p.m.; $24 online; Hayden Homes Amphitheater Music, 322 SW Shevlin Hixon Drive, Bend; bendconcerts.com. Live at the Vineyard — Olson Bros ...

Editorial cartoon for 8/18 ...

How many city-owned trees are in Bend? One day know we’ll know — after city workers and volunteers count them. All of them. By hand. Crews have been at it since May. Carter Levinson, a recent Oregon ...

Richard Coe’s column calling the Greenwood Avenue redesign “the right thing to do” skips the story’s beginning. Fill in what’s missing and the case falls apart. Start with how the project was sold. A ...