The historic downtown area along Commercial Street feels like a perfectly preserved slice of early 20th-century America, with beautifully maintained buildings housing independent shops, inviting cafés ...

Madras sits in Central Oregon’s high desert, offering mountain-view drives without the traffic jams of Bend! This small town provides scenic routes through Central Oregon’s stunning landscape. The ...

Like most high desert towns, Madras, Oregon, is no stranger to extreme temperatures. Located about 2,250 feet above sea level in a dry valley surrounded by central Oregon’s Cascade Range, summers in ...

A Madras, Oregon, man, who is a registered sex offender, was sentenced to federal prison Thursday for attempting to persuade a purported child to meet him for sex and to send him sexually explicit ...

A state board dropped nearly 100 derogatory terms from maps this year, Central Oregon’s China Hat Butte wasn’t one of them The state board responsible for Oregon’s place names recently released a list ...

A map, from The National Weather Service outlining the areas currently under a flash flood warning. (photo credit: National Weather Service) A flash flood alert for Central Oregon has been released.

A newly regulated chemical found in drinking water across the U.S. has been detected in several Oregon public water systems. Dubbed "forever chemicals" PFAS have been linked to certain types of cancer ...

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An earthquake off the coast of Russia triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean. The entire Oregon coastline is under a tsunami advisory, according to the National Weather Service and the ...

MADRAS Ore. (KPTV) - The Cram Fire burning northeast of Madras is 100% contained, according to Oregon fire officials on Sunday. As of Saturday night, the fire was estimated to be 95,736 acres in size, ...

A photo provided by the Oregon Department of Transportation shows a wildfire burning in the median of Interstate 84 as the blaze shut down the highway between Hood River and The Dalles, in Ore. on ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon lawmakers have voted to repeal the state’s contentious wildfire hazard map, which subjected homeowners in certain areas at high risk of wildfires to stricter building codes and ...