In the Media

An excavator crawled through the water of the Deschutes River in Bend on Tuesday, just north of the Colorado Avenue Bridge.

A snowy February boosted the snowpack in the Deschutes/Crooked River Basin, but more is needed to bring the amount of snow in the mountains to normal.

After rising for the past couple of days, the flow along the Deschutes River is expected to peak today.

The Bend City Council is expected to approve a guaranteed maximum price of just under $24 million for the construction of the membrane water treatment plant associated with the Bridge Creek water project.

Warming temperatures and a series of rainstorms have flooded parts of south Deschutes County one week after record snowfall slammed Central Oregon.

A federal judge Friday rejected an attempt by Central Oregon LandWatch to halt the city of Bend’s Bridge Creek municipal water project.

City of Bend officials plan to continue settlement talks this week with groups that sued to stop its $24 million Bridge Creek water supply project.

PacifiCorp announced this afternoon that it will repair the leak in Mirror Pond dam in April, in time for people to enjoy higher water levels on the Deschutes River this summer.

Three years after its planned wetland restoration upstream of Dillon Falls on the Deschutes River riled irrigators, the U.S. Forest Service is close to finalizing a revised plan.