Bend, a central Oregon city known for attracting outdoor enthusiasts, has been named one of the United States' best ...

The Bend City Council denounced the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort and awarded a nonprofit $100,000 to help families affected by the immigration crackdown. The move came in response to ...

New state laws and rules require Bend to plan to accommodate 34,000 new housing units and discourage car trips. About a third of those houses or apartments need to be […] ...

Winter arrived on the calendar in Central Oregon, but the weather hasn’t looked much like it. Temperatures have been running ...

Editor’s note: Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5. Stay informed with OPB on the presidential race, key congressional battles and other local contests and ballot ...

Every time a conversation about funding the streets or local cops comes up, some in the community will use it as an opportunity to ask, “How can we get tourists to pay more of their fair share?” In ...

Caldera High School in southeast Bend, Oregon, sits across the street from where a newly selected housing development is planned, Caldera Ranch. Case Bateman teaches ninth-grade physics at the high ...

As a former commander in the Air Force, a current high school physics teacher and a Bend City Councilor, I understand the value of shaping outcomes both with immediate actions and by setting the ...

Lynne McConnell hopes that, years from now, her 13-year-old daughter can return from college to Bend and afford a place to live. “That’s not what we have today,” said McConnell, the city’s housing ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The City of Bend is asking for a vandal who has been putting googly eyes on statues in roundabouts to stop. The vandalism has happened to eight statues so far and the city is ...

Bach covers housing for The Oregonian/OregonLive. This op-ed is adapted from his forthcoming book, “High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West.” For much of high ...