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
9 months
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Monday's MLK Jr. Day is holiday for some, but impacts of C.O.'s weekend snowstorm lead to early c...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a holiday for many and a day of service for others. But th...

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Big dig-out, warmup begins after snowstorm; East Bend power back; Tumalo DUII crash into pole bri...

Heavy snow and dangerous cold hit the High Desert as forecast Saturday, making for very risky travel conditions and k...

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Deschutes County health officials report troubling surge in fatal fentanyl overdoses: four deaths...

Deschutes County Health Services advised Friday of a recent increase in overdose fatalities -- four in six days -- an...

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Bend attempted armed robbery suspect eludes manhunt; police may pay reward for info leading to hi...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Bend police said Friday they may pay a cash reward for information that leads to the arrest of a ...

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Wind topples Sisters tree into pole, downs power lines; more trees fall in south county, Black Bu...

High winds knocked down a tree, which fell into a 45-foot power pole and tore down lines in Sisters Thursday evening....

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Winter storm warning for a foot more snow in C.O., 16-40 inches east slopes; high winds prompt Mt...

Another major winter storm is poised to sweep into the High Desert over the next couple of days, bringing up to a foo...

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Oh, the memes: When a large tree limb crashes through a Sisters home's roof - and lands in the to...

Sisters resident Matt Houston, his wife and their two dogs are all OK – that’s the first thing everyone wants to know...

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Meat smoker on porch causes early-morning fire, heavily damaging NE Prineville home; family of 3 ...

A fire caused by a barbecue meat smoker on the front porch heavily damaged a northeast Prineville home early Tuesday ...

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Snowstorm, blizzard move into Cascades, C. Oregon; COCC closed at noon, OSU-Cascades, courts at 4...

The first surge of a major winter storm that’s expected to bring blizzard conditions in the Cascades and some areas o...

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Former DCSO detective Ron Brown sentenced, serving a week in jail on official misconduct convicti...

A former longtime Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy and detective, recently convicted by a judge of two counts of off...

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Major snowstorm coming: NWS issues rare blizzard warning for Cascades and east slopes, including ...

A severe winter storm headed toward the Northwest prompted the National Weather Service in Pendleton on Sunday to iss...

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Drug-sniffing dog's leads to arrest of Prineville fentanyl, meth trafficking suspect during Siste...

SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Prineville man under investigation for allegedly trafficking large quantities of fentanyl pi...

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