An outdoor homeless shelter may be in the works in east Bend after the Bend City
Council approved a contract with the nonprofit Central Oregon Villages.
Oliver Tatom, a Central Oregon Community College board member and a clinic
manager for St. Charles Hospital System, is running for one of two seats that
are up for grabs
After living on the outskirts of Bend for roughly seven years, Danielle McGovern
decided recently to make camp in town on Emerson Avenue so she could be closer
to services.
The city of Bend is no longer trying to buy the Rainbow Motel, but is still
pursuing the Bend Value Inn, with plans to convert the building into a homeless
Just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong for Erica Kite when the
pandemic began. First, she was let go from her job for electing to stay home