Jefferson County News

A health advisory to avoid water contact at Haystack Reservoir was lifted today by state health officials.

Central Oregon Community College students and officials are just days away from finding out whether their school will be able to build new facilities to accommodate a more than 45 percent enrollment increase over the past two years.

A 19-year-old Madras resident is recuperating after he was injured in Afghanistan when the armored vehicle he was driving hit a roadside bomb.

A Christian-based summer camp in Antelope is working on a land-swap deal that could create two new wilderness areas and make about 15,000 acres of popular hunting grounds accessible to the public.

A sheriff's son allegedly fires a gun in Culver neighborhood, starting a police standoff and forcing the evacuation of surrounding homes.

Sisters Amillia and Peg are part of a small and hopeful effort in Clallam County.

For a month, Jefferson County Assessor Patsy Mault has been hearing from people whose property values have plummeted.

"You can see the Crooked River Ranch people are clearly against the closure," said Sherman Kirchmeier as he hold pages of signatures.

Has Jefferson County become the bad boy of Oregon land use politics? Or is the state just really mean? Mere months after participating in a highly publicized and successful push to overrule the county's plans for destination resorts in the Metolius River Basin, the Department of Land Conservation and Development is challenging another Jefferson ...

BEND, Ore. - The majority of calls that came in about 14 malnourished, lice-infested horses in Crook County last April were from neighbors and concerned citizens who could see the horses as they drove past on the highway.

Culver resident Floyd Earnest Carlson died Oct. 8, 2009, at the age of 96. Mr. Carlson was born May 15, 1913, the eldest child to Earnest and Augusta Carlson in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

In a story headlined "Agency to revise off-road travel rules," which appeared Thursday, Oct.

Oregon State Police troopers are continuing the investigation into Tuesday afternoon's single vehicle traffic crash on Highway 26 east of Madras that resulted in the death of a Prineville man and injuries to three others.

Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputies are investigating a death after a body is found near Madras.

A fast moving brush fire in Ashland quickly spread to three separate fires threatening hundreds of homes, leading to a call for help for resources from across Oregon.

In all three Central Oregon counties crime is down-- as new F-B-I statistics are released Monday for crimes rates in 2008.

Madras farmer Gary Harris was visiting his father's condominium on a fancy golf course in Arizona recently when he struck up a conversation with the man in charge of taking care of the course.

Monthly breast-feeding support meetings in Bend and advice via phone. www.llli.org or Aria Baker at 541-385-1787 Aria Baker: Classes; 541-385-1787 or www.ariabaker.com Birthing & Beyond: Next class Oct.

Four Latah County residents are being held on $100,000 bail in Jefferson County, Ore., for the alleged robbery and assault of another Latah County man.

A "Suspects will be ordered out at gunpoint," said Detective Evan with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.