Deschutes County Sheriff Kent van der Kamp has been permanently expelled from the Oregon State Sheriff’s Association’s board ...

Decisions of the Deschutes County Commission commonly end in a 2-1 vote, with Commissioner Phil Chang objecting to the ...

The Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association unanimously voted last Wednesday to permanently expel Deschutes County Sheriff Kent ...

The Deschutes County Road Department is actively seeking community input to enhance transportation safety on rural county roadways. As the department works to update its 2019 Transportation Safety ...

As spring ushers in the warmer weather, now is an ideal time to clean out the garage and safely dispose of items that are considered household hazardous waste. This June, Deschutes County Solid Waste ...

Following Thursday’s meeting, the Police Policy Committee backed a lifetime ineligibility period for Sheriff Van Der Kamp in a unanimous vote.

The Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association has removed Deschutes County Sheriff Kent van der Kamp from its Board of Directors ...

Joni Land / OPB A Deschutes County committee has been called back to come up with more recommendations for where to build the next county landfill — Oregon’s first new landfill in over three ...

Deputies in Deschutes County, Oregon arrested a 75-year-old man on Wednesday, accusing him of beating a puppy. A witness reported seeing John Coe Richardson of La Pine beating a 5-month-old ...

He faces nine charges in central Oregon's Deschutes County in relation to the 2023 death of Evelyn Weaver, including first-degree murder, robbery, burglary and unauthorized use of a vehicle.

There is an election this month in Oregon, but some special district ... A ballot counting machine runs a batch of test ballots at the Deschutes county offices in Bend on Oct. 14, 2024.

She said many members of the camp had jobs, didn’t use drugs and sought to live a normal life but that the combination of skyrocketing housing costs in central Oregon, combined with “one bad ...