Political news covering greater Bend and Oregon.
video by @NewsChannel21Deschutes County in Oregon is currently looking for suitable locations for regulated homeless camps as part of their new camping code. Originally, they planned to find a location…
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) - The city of Bend won a judge's legal backing Monday for its plans to clear the Hunnell Road homeless encampment, but the city has been notified…
Homeless say city has failed to provide 'reasonable accommodation' - and some may die if forced to move BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) - Three homeless residents of Hunnell and Clausen roads…
City says those who refuse to leave could receive trespass notice, be removed BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- City officials were out on Hunnell Road Thursday morning, zip-tying eviction notices to…
The Bureau of Land Management wants to cut leasing rates by 80% for wind and solar projects on public lands, and streamline the application process, in an effort to meet…
Two places to go and no staying in one spot is the basis of a new homeless ordinance passed by the City of Madras Tuesday. The new law says camping…
(Update: KTVZ's Blake Mayfield is meeting with city officials for more project details) Mayor says funds may 'move up the timeline' for new cross-town connection BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The…
(Update: Adding video, comments from Rep. Emerson Levy, Senator Tim Knopp). SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The 2023 Oregon Legislative session wrapped up Sunday. It included the longest walkout in history,…
Seattle Sounders FC fans taunt the Portland Timbers during a 2011 MLS match in Seattle in 2011. (AP) BEND, Ore. — If you've visited Oregon (as I am currently), you…
REDMOND, OR -- U.Senator Jeff Merkley held a Town Hall in Redmond Saturday at Ridgeview High School. Among the audience questions on student debt, river restoration, and Veterans' services, he…
