Set against the current backdrop of social activism around the nation, the first event of the fall 2020 Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Pro… Read more

For 100 years, the Deschutes Public Library has educated, entertained, and enriched residents of all ages in Deschutes County. Libraries stren… Read more

Your brain changes with age, including changes in mental and cognitive function. And, unfortunately, while there currently is no cure for Alzh… Read more

As the Lionshead Fire began to roar over Labor Day weekend, spurred by intense winds across the forests that wrap Mt. Jefferson, Michael Leecy… Read more

MountainStar Family Relief Nursery (MountainStar) is an early childhood, child abuse prevention program that started in Bend in 2001 and has g… Read more

The campuses of Central Oregon Community College (COCC) are prepped and ready for a new era of learning. Classrooms are reorganized to maximiz… Read more

At one time or another during this pandemic, we may each have sensed or feared that life itself was somehow coming to a halt. For so many, sad… Read more

Nine nursing assistant students in a Central Oregon Community College (COCC) classroom watch as the image of an oxygen mask appears on the cla… Read more

As social distancing and self-isolation become the new normal due to COVID-19, it is important that we take active steps towards staying conne… Read more

Downtown Bend was established in 1903, and was the original center, or heart, of the city of Bend. Constructed in May of 1901, the Pilot Butte… Read more

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School, located at 2450 NE 27th St., is preparing to open its doors for the first day of school on Sept. 9. Fro… Read more

There’s a cherry tree in downtown Prineville, rooted along 3rd Street, that seems to be sprouting a tangle of red ribbon. Each strand, nearly … Read more

There was a time in John Strassman’s life when numbers meant everything. Read more

March 13, 2020 was supposed to be an ordinary early release Friday at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School in Bend. The school’s teachers par… Read more

Cabin 22 owner Mitch Cole was excited to open the restaurant’s second location, Cabin South, in March. Then, like many other Oregon business o… Read more

When strolling the neighborhood near her Bend home, Jennifer McCabe often pauses to examine plants and trees in fine detail — the delicate, pa… Read more

The sun is beginning to shine as we transition into the warmer days of summer. Whether you have a green thumb or are just looking for a new ou… Read more

For Jessica Thaxton of Bend, her hard-earned college degree might not culminate with an in-person graduation this June, owing to the current c… Read more

Almost four years ago, Robyn Migliorini made a cross-country journey from San Diego to Boston to begin a psychology internship at Harvard Medi… Read more

This fall, 2.9 million freshmen are projected to embark on their college careers, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics.… Read more

Are you worried about falling, or have you recently experienced a fall? Perhaps you have an older family member that you feel is at risk of fa… Read more

As COVID-19 leaps around the planet, the role of data-tracking the virus plays out in real time in a computer lab at Central Oregon Community … Read more

Just a handful of hybrid-electric cars drove off sales lots in the United States in 1999. Seventeen of them, to be precise. That year, as a ne… Read more

Social isolation, a sense of loneliness that comes from a lack of interactions with others, can carry some serious health consequences. Studie… Read more

Danielle Snow has been in the real estate business long enough to remember a time before cell phones. Read more