This year marks our second annual “Top Docs” feature, in which we highlight some of the amazing work our local health care providers are doing both inside and outside the exam room. The people ...

Dr. Maya Heck is a hospital-based psychiatrist at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend. She works primarily with adults experiencing acute mental health challenges who are hospitalized, but also ...

Dr. Nancy Heavilin believes health care is a right, not a privilege, and refuses to think of her patients as customers. She’s a pediatrician who doesn’t shy away from the reality of the “hellscape of ...

Bendites who’ve been around a while may very well remember Dr. Steven Knapp and his wife Susan, a nurse practitioner, from their small family medical business. For decades, the couple offered locals a ...

A series of local election forums in Deschutes County this year have all ended the same way: with a pledge. During the ...

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): One morning soon, I predict you will open your inner eyes as well as your outer eyes and discover that you feel freer than you have in ages. Old specters that once pestered ...

When a 15-year-old girl goes missing from her home, every moment matters. The recent report of Marquel Heath, a Warm Springs ...

Oregon Ducks fans will have another way to support mental health awareness this football season. Kiefer Magic Peach Hazy IPA, brewed by Central Oregon’s Wild Ride Brewing, will be available in the ...

No matter how you intend to vote, the midterm election on Nov. 3 already had plenty riding on it. Now, at least three voters, ...

One morning soon, I predict you will open your inner eyes as well as your outer eyes and discover that you feel freer than ...

Indivisible Sisters will host a family-friendly “No Kings” Early Voting Demonstration on Saturday, October 17, from 9:00 to ...

Volunteers are preparing to collect Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts during National Collection Week, Nov. 16 – 23.