A fiery crash involving an SUV and a semi-truck injured both drivers and blocked Highway 97 near Vandevert Road north of La Pine for over an hour late Thursday afternoon; one lane reopened before 5 p.m and the other before 7:30 p.m..

An autopsy on a Powell Butte woman whose remains were found by a rancher in his field nearly three weeks after she disappeared determined Shauna Fowler died accidentally of hypothermia, with no signs of foul play, Crook County authorities said Thursday. They said she'd headed in the opposite direction searchers had thought.

A Bend day care provider was sentenced Thursday to 7 1/2 years in prison, two days after pleading guilty to reduced charges for abusing an infant in her care.

A witness has helped Redmond police develop a composite drawing of a suspect who held up the same northwest Redmond Subway at knifepoint twice in less than three weeks, officers said Thursday. They acknowledged it looked similar to a man arrested this week in a motel robbery at knifepoint.

Two Redmond residents have been arrested in a robbery at knifepoint from a southwest Redmond motel and most of the victim’s property was recovered, police said Thursday.

A California fugitive fled his SUV in Crescent after a police chase from southern Deschutes County on Wednesday, leading to an area manhunt; an unconfirmed sighting Thursday led to a lockdown at Gilchrist schools, but he again was not found.

A Salem man on his way home from a job in Central Oregon escaped serious injury Thursday when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel and his pickup hit the end of a guardrail on Highway 126 west of Redmond, causing it to flip end over end down an embankment, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said.

The top lawmakers on the House and Senate's tax-writing committees struck a deal Thursday on a measure that would grease the wheels for President Barack Obama to lock in one of the biggest trade deals in history.

The bill would hand the President aut...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Three Oregon lawmakers are the targets of possible recalls after co-sponsoring legislation that would expand background checks for private gun sales.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Researchers say high levels of pesticides, flame retardants, and mercury in Pacific lampreys may be contributing to their overall decline in the Columbia River Basin.

Syria is a Hell on Earth that is expanding in plain sight.

The death toll there has doubled in a year's time, if an opposition group is right.

Since civil war broke out there, 310,000 people have been killed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights sa...