Barney Lerten Digital Content Director
  • Or
  • NPG Oregon

Digital Content Director - KTVZ

Published In

United Press International, The Bulletin, Bend.com, KTVZ.COM

Focus Areas

  • General assignment

240 Articles
6 months
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Funding package passed by Congress includes $1.14 million for St. Charles/OHSU psychiatric reside...

(Update: Statement from St. Charles) WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced Monday ...

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'She took a chance to tell on her abuser': Woman in hotel saved by Bend Police after texting Huma...

A Salem woman texted the National Human Trafficking Hotline from a Bend hotel room to report she was being held again...

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6 months
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ODOT conducts first in series of blasting operations to clear new Highway 97 path on Bend's north...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – U.S. Highway 97 was shut on Bend’s north end for a brief period Sunday morning for the first in a...

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SUV hits school bus carrying 14 Baker Co. FFA youth on Hwy. 126 in Redmond; 3 minor injuries, dri...

A Culver woman was arrested on DUII, reckless driving and assault charges Friday night after Oregon State police say ...

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Deschutes County sees some success in cleanup, remediation plan at its Juniper Ridge property, wi...

Deschutes County is seeing some success and as expected, some continued challenges in its remediation efforts to redu...

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Bend city councilors hold sparsely attended public hearing, vote to move ahead with transportatio...

After years of discussion, months of staff work and weeks of roundtables and listening sessions, Bend city councilors...

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Bend Police officer fatally shoots Bend Parkway driver during encounter after crash - KTVZ

A Bend police officer fatally shot a driver during an encounter on the Bend Parkway after a crash Wednesday night. Wi...

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Neighbors of Knife River mine may sue Crook County, state; Wyden, Merkley back DEQ plans for well...

Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said Wednesday they support the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality addres...

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DCSO: Alfalfa man called 911 to report he set own house ablaze, then blocked driveway to keep fir...

An Alfalfa man called Deschutes County 911 Tuesday evening to report he’d set his own house on fire, and first respon...

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Dick Higgins, Bend's much-beloved and honored Pearl Harbor survivor, passes at 102 - KTVZ

Dick Higgins, the Bend resident and Pearl Harbor survivor whose public appearances and first-person recollections of ...

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7 months
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Injury crash shuts down U.S. Highway 20 west of Santiam Pass for over an hour - KTVZ

An apparent injury crash west of Santiam Pass shut U.S. Highway 20 late Sunday afternoon for over an hour.

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Tips, complaints lead to surveillance, drug raid on NE Bend home; six arrested in breakup of fent...

Community tips and complaints led to several weeks’ surveillance of a northeast Bend home where fentanyl and other dr...

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