Courtney Sherwood

Posted Friday, October 16, 2026 8:36 am Three children and a teacher are dead in Bend after a 16-year-old with a long gun shot them at Silver Rail Elementary School, police said Thursday. The suspected shooter, who has not been identified, is also dead. P... See more

Posted Friday, October 16, 2026 8:36 am Three children and a teacher are dead in Bend after a 16-year-old with a long gun shot them at Silver Rail Elementary School, police said Thursday. The suspected shooter, who has not been identified, is also dead. P... See more

Posted Friday, October 16, 2026 8:36 am Three children and a teacher are dead in Bend after a 16-year-old with a long gun shot them at Silver Rail Elementary School, police said Thursday. The suspected shooter, who has not been identified, is also dead. P... See more

By COURTNEY SHERWOOD/Oregon Public Broadcasting A federal judge says he'll issue a ruling by the end of October in a lawsuit that's pitting concerns about the drinking water of 230,000 people in Marion County against efforts to save imperiled Chinook salm... See more

The push to kill one kind of owl to save another has reached Oregon’s Elliott State Research Forest. Beginning Thursday, contractors will begin shooting invasive barred owls inside the 83,000-acre state-owned territory, in an effort to protect northern sp... See more