Clayton Franke

Plans for a large multifamily housing development in southwest Bend received hours of public testimony and dozens of letters, mostly from neighbors worried about housing density, overcrowded streets and fire

Five planned multifamily housing developments are asking for property tax rebates through the city of Bend’s new incentive program tailored to bring down rent costs, as leaders hope to avoid

The Oregon Department of Transportation expects to begin construction of seven electric vehicle charging stations along the U.S. Highway 97 corridor in 2025 despite a federal funding freeze that nixed

The couple who were killed in an avalanche while backcountry skiing near Broken Top mountain on Monday were identified as Terry and Renee Skjersaa, members of the Norwegian family who

Construction will begin Monday on Olney Avenue in Bend, closing the road where it crosses underneath the Bend Parkway.

Less than two weeks after her California home was damaged and nearly lost in the Eaton fire burning in Los Angeles — one of a group of blazes fanned by

When the wooded 40-acre property just west of U.S. Highway 97 on Bend’s southern edge was scooped into the city’s urban growth boundary in 2016, property owners believed development could

Gary Hewitt, former executive director of homeless services nonprofit St. Vincent de Paul, was sentenced to nearly three-and-a-half years in state prison and three years probation Wednesday morning after he

Seventeen-year-old Aster Powell moved in with a close friend last year near Sunriver and started working at an entertainment center to pay for food, gas and his $400 rent bill.

As part of the plan to confine and eventually quell homeless camping on public land at Juniper Ridge north of Bend, the city of Bend and Deschutes County dished out