Brooke Snavely

DISC GOLF BACK AT COCC! After a 10-year hiatus, disc golf is back on the Central Oregon Community College Bend campus. A new nine-hole course has just opened.

THE GREAT OUTDOORS: Volunteers are restoring historic buildings on the Crooked River National Grassland between Madras and Prineville. The work is revealing layers of human history dating back more than 10,000 years.

RSV cases in Central Oregon that required hospitalization decreased last winter. That's being credited to so many expectant mothers and newborns who received RSV vaccines, St. Charles says.

THE GREAT OUTDOORS: It’s easy to be a citizen scientist in this day and age when everyone has a smartphone and camera. Responsible wildlife viewing and online reporting can also help biologists with their research.

After 15 months of refurbishing, the 76 rooms at the Old Mill Hotel in Bend will now serve as affordable housing units for those in need.

"THE AUTOPSY LAB IS A GOOD PLACE FOR APPETIZERS": Scott McKittrick is obsessed with Halloween to the point where he turns his Bend home into an elaborate haunted house. It's invitation only, but he let us give you a peek.

Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson said his public message Tuesday about an investigation into candidate Kent Vander Kamp is not election interference one week before ballots are due. That message has led to strong reaction from Vander Kamp and the community.

Plows are at work on the Cascade Lakes Highway as the first big mountain snow moves in. But fire damage from the summer is keeping Edison Butte Sno-Park closed for now.

The Central Oregon Symphony performed its fall concerts last weekend in the Caldera High School auditorium, needing to relocate to the smaller venue after the larger auditorium at Bend Senior High School had to be torn down.

I & J Carpets in Bend said its has been the victim of vandalism twice in the past two years and had a tree next to their building set on fire from a suspected homeless camp.