Hemp & Cannabis Fair hits Redmond

REDMOND — In the still-evolving world of weed in Oregon, people with cannabis, hemp and marijuana businesses have to stay up on legislation. Mackenzie Maier, 29, owner of Miss Mack’s Medibles out of Salem, is a mother of two. Her son has grown up around ...MORE

History in buildings

Pioneer history finds new life in modern Bend

Tucked between the plaza with Shopko and the Bend River Promenade mall is an old wooden homestead, which sits on about one-third of an acre. Though the plot is small, the history is big: the pioneering Boyds of Bend. The family home, bunkhouse and icehouse ...MORE

No-hitter propels Cougars to victory

Gavin Peterson put on a show Saturday afternoon. The Mountain View pitcher struck out five and walked three. But the most significant number for Peterson was zero — as in the number of hits he surrendered to Milwaukie in a 3-0 baseball win. With Peterson ...MORE

Prep Roundup

Bend High baseball wins doubleheader

ALBANY — Led by the big bats of Justin Parsons and Mario Mora, Class 5A Bend High dispatched 6A West Albany 6-1 and 3-1 in a nonconference baseball doubleheader Saturday. Parsons belted a home run in the first inning of the first game Saturday, and ...MORE

Islamic State feeling financial pain of strikes

The Islamic State is facing an unprecedented cash crunch in its home territory, U.S. counterterrorism officials say, as months of strikes on oil facilities and financial institutions take a deepening toll on the group’s ability to pay its fighters or carry out operations. For the ...MORE

Wisconsin’s politics are impossible to predict

MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin’s politics seem to make little sense. Three times its people sent Russ Feingold, hero of the left and author of a landmark law to curb big money in campaigns, to the Senate. In 2012, they elected Tammy Baldwin as the first openly ...MORE

Companies grow after Bend Venture Conference

As he spoke before a sold-out Tower Theater in front of more than 400 audience members including dozens of investors in October, Kent Schnepp’s company, Odysys, was barely generating revenue. Nearly six months later, after winning $225,000 from the growth-stage award at the Bend Venture ...MORE

Drone photography taking off in Bay Area real estate

SARATOGA, Calif. — Curt Walton’s DJI Phantom 2 zipped this way and that, up and down and around corners of the sleek hillside property that recently listed here for $4 million. Equipped with an HD video camera, the copter dipped and hovered like a hummingbird ...MORE

Editorial: Deschutes Basin needs help from Oregon’s delegation

Oregon’s Congressional delegation needs to figure out what the federal government can do to protect frogs, farmers, the fish and all the rest of us in the Deschutes River Basin from the repercussions of the lawsuit over the Oregon Spotted Frog. Oregon’s Democratic Sens. Jeff ...MORE

Editorial: Bend needs Internet reliability and capacity

Should the city of Bend become an Internet provider? That’s the provocative question the Bend Chamber of Commerce is using to lure people to its next What’s Brewing forum Tuesday about the future of Bend’s Internet service. The first thing you should know is that ...MORE

Gender gap in book coverage narrowing, study says

NEW YORK — A new study of literary publications finds that men remain the majority of book reviewers and authors reviewed, but the gap is narrowing. VIDA, otherwise known as Women in Literary Arts, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that The New Republic and ...MORE

The American story of the Spanish civil war

“Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939” by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 464 pages, $30) The Spanish civil war, which ran from 1936 to 1939, is most notable to historians for how it foreshadowed the horrors of World War II. Yet few distant conflicts are so burned into our culture and consciousness. Ernest Hemingway, who covered the war, made it ...MORE

Northwest Travel

Grand Adventure on the Colorado

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — There’s a funny thing about running river rapids: The surge doesn’t look half as large when you’re approaching the waves as when you’re actually in them. Think of the rearview warning on your vehicle: “Objects in mirror are closer ...MORE

Tango lessons helped stroke victim to walk again

SEATTLE — The tango instructor was confused. “There’s a guy who’s here for tango lessons,” the bar manager told her. “And he’s in a wheelchair.” Gabriela Condrea walked to the front of Amber, a Belltown nightclub where she had been teaching a Happy Hour Tango ...MORE

Deschutes’ drinking problem

Deschutes County is often celebrated for supporting a healthy lifestyle. It has one of the lowest rates of adult obesity in the nation. Adult smoking is low and physical activity is high. Those are a few of the more than two dozen health measures that ...MORE

Money

Shaping federal policy, and treating patients on the side

WASHINGTON — On weekdays, Dr. Patrick Conway is one of the most powerful doctors in America, steering federal health programs that spend nearly $1 trillion a year while shaping health policies that affect tens of millions of citizens. On many weekends, he is just another ...MORE