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Editors, publishers, reporters and journalism advocates from across Oregon gathered last week at Central Oregon Community College for the Fund for Oregon Rural Journalism's (FORJ) fourth annual Rural and Small-Town Journalism Conference

As destructive wildfires continue to burn across Oregon and the West, Oregon U.S. Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden are joining a bipartisan group of senators urging federal regulators to stop the expansion of prediction markets that allow people to wager on the course and impacts of wildfires.

The Alfalfa Fire District Board publicly questioned its own actions during a recent meeting after board members appeared unable to recall a vote taken just weeks earlier to delay appointments to two vacant board seats

A simple act of kindness by a Prineville man is drawing praise after he traveled to Bend to help a man known for quietly caring for one of the city's parks.

Concerns are mounting among some residents displaced by Central Oregon's ongoing wildfires after learning they and their animals may need to relocate from the Crook County Fairgrounds as preparations begin for next week's Crook County Fair.

A Crook County hearings officer will decide Wednesday whether evidence involving Knife River’s aggregate operation northwest of Prineville is sufficient to begin formal proceedings that could modify or revoke the company’s conditional-use permits.

Crook County commissioners unanimously declared a local state of emergency Wednesday afternoon as multiple wildfires continued to grow across the region, with fire officials reporting Thursday morning that protecting homes and communities around Prineville remains their top priority following a day of extreme fire behavior.

High Desert Christian Academy has announced it will permanently close at the end of the month, bringing an end to more than three decades of Christian education in Prineville.

Residents in the Ochoco West subdivision are now under a Level 1 "Be Ready" evacuation notice as the Brewer Fire continues to burn northwest of Prineville, prompting expanding evacuation zones and an increasing response from state and local firefighting agencies.

A Prineville Review investigation has identified what appears to be undocumented meetings by a Crook County Fair Board funding committee that discussed Fair Board busines