The Bulletin

01/11/2025

Good news for those who bike or walk on Olney Avenue in midtown Bend: Big improvements are coming. Learn what's next.

The city of Bend invites the public to learn more about a project construction on Olney Avenue that is intended to make bicycle and pedestrian travel easier on the east-west

01/11/2025

A Bend High student died in a car crash in Redmond Thursday afternoon. Bend-La Pine Schools had a counseling team available for students and staff at Bend High Friday morning.

Bend High student Bradley Hughes died in a crash in Redmond Thursday afternoon. Bend-La Pine Schools had a counseling team at Bend High Friday morning available for students and staff,

01/11/2025

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In challenging times, the Teresa McCormick Center in Medford, Oregon, has become a beacon of hope, offering vital support to those in need. Learn more about their inspiring work

MEDFORD, Ore. – Any given Thursday, hunger or the fear of it keeps folks in Jackson County waiting up to an hour for a food box from the Teresa McCormick

01/10/2025

Good news for those who commute regularly on Reed Market Road -- and have come to dread the train tracks. 🚗 🚂

The city of Bend announced Friday it received a $32 million federal grant to pay for the construction of a railroad separation on Reed Market Road, a long-anticipated project promising

01/10/2025

St. Charles Health System is opening a stand-alone pharmacy near downtown Madras in hopes of preventing the community from becoming.a pharmacy desert.

This spring the city of Madras will have a third pharmacy that will help fill a provider gap for prescription drugs.

01/10/2025

The 15 Oregon strike teams mobilized to help control wildfires in the Los Angeles area arrived in Southern California on Thursday. Eleven of the teams were issued assignments on Friday morning, mostly on the destructive Palisades Fire, which has destroyed thousands of homes and businesses.

The 15 Oregon strike teams mobilized to help control wildfires in the Los Angeles area arrived in Southern California on Thursday. Eleven of the teams were issued assignments on Friday

01/10/2025

The votes are in for The Bulletin's Athletes of the Week for Dec. 30-Jan. 4.

The votes are in for The Bulletin’s Athletes of the Week for Dec. 30-Jan. 4. More than 200 votes were cast.

01/10/2025

The Tour of Meissner classic cross-country ski race is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 19. Registration closes on Wednesday.

The Tour of Meissner is less about racing, and more about bringing the Central Oregon Nordic skiing community together.

01/10/2025

Bend High boys basketball is 7-4 this season after losing every game last season.

Entering this boys basketball season, Bend High had only one direction to go — up.

01/10/2025

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Learn beekeeping basics while exploring Central Oregon’s watersheds and more through diverse partnerships with COCC's Community Education.

Sporting an amber-colored T-shirt that reads “Bee the Change,” master beekeeper Jimmy Wilkie stands in front of an evening Community Education class on COCC’s Bend campus and dispenses honeybee wisdom.

01/10/2025

“The only thing preventing us from bringing our art to downtown Bend is that instead of painting the art directly on the brick we are painting it on thin plywood sheets,” said Worthy Brewing owner Roger Worthington in a letter to the city of Bend.

A floral mural designed by local artists and intended to hang above the Worthy Brewing Beers & Burgers building in downtown Bend has hit a brick wall with the city

01/09/2025

Complaints filed with the city of Bend since June show at least four instances of downtown parking gates dropping unexpectedly, resulting in head injuries and denting cars.

01/09/2025

Firefighters and engines from Central Oregon are on their way to Southern California to help local fire crews as they battle multiple fires tearing across parts of the Los Angeles metro area.

Firefighters and engines from Central Oregon are on their way to Southern California to help local fire crews as they battle multiple fires tearing across parts of the Los Angeles

01/09/2025

A year after the completion of a major environmental restoration project on Whychus Creek — including conversion of cow pasture into a floodplain — beavers are returning to the area, a sign that efforts to “rewild” the creek are positively impacting native wildlife.

A year after the completion of a major environmental restoration project on Whychus Creek — including conversion of cow pasture into a floodplain — beavers are returning to the area,

01/09/2025

Oregon is the top state for mansplaining, according to a recent survey of 2,000 women. And Portland is the no. 1 city.

Oh yeah? Well, Bend's favorite (only) skateboarding-themed column, Dropping In, came up with an unscientific list of things Bend is the capital of, including left turn signals on while in a roundabout, hard to find food carts, and carping about things they had in one's former city but aren't here — yet. "Look, Luna and Liam, you know how market size and supply and demand work, right? Maybe your arrival is the tipping point indicating that the town is now big enough for whatever you’re missing. Nothing ventured, nothing gained!"

In November, the impeccable results of a survey slid into our emails, the kind of important study we here at Dropping In headquarters will drop what we’re doing in order

01/09/2025

Read up on the Villalobos Brothers, performing at The Tower Theatre in Bend Sunday. The trio brings with them a unique (and very fun) blend of traditional Mexican folk music, classical music and Latin jazz.

A couple of years ago, The Villalobos Brothers performed in Bend, bringing with them their unique (and very fun) blend of traditional Mexican folk music, classical music and Latin jazz.

01/08/2025

The Downtown Bend Business Association launched a survey hoping to gather a diverse group of perspectives on how people travel downtown as the city examines where and how streets could be redesigned to limit car use.

The Downtown Bend Business Association launched a survey Dec. 12 hoping to gather a diverse group of perspectives on how people travel downtown as the city examines where and how

01/08/2025

Bend's new Yokocho Izakaya serves Japanese comfort food with Asian and French influences, including tonkatsu, yakitori and Shibuya toast.

Bend’s newest Japanese restaurant, Yokocho Izakaya, was designed to fill a gap in the city’s Asian cuisine offerings. Rather than sushi-grade fish, the majority of the menu is cooked, with