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In Rural Oregon, Pride Organizers Are Fighting For Recognition—From Their Hometowns and the LGBTQ Community at Large

Trish Perry has a dream—she wants to see a Pride parade in her hometown of Bend.

Bend Considers Launching E-Scooter Pilot Program Modeled After Portland’s

City officials in Bend, Ore., are considering launching an e-scooter pilot program that is modeled after the one Portland trialed last summer.

Hillsboro Is the Top City in Oregon to Find Affordable Housing, New Study Says

According to a new study, Hillsboro is the Oregon city with the most affordable housing. The Portland-area suburb’s top ranking was followed by Salem and Beaverton. Portland took the number eight slot.

Bend Is Now Home to the Last Blockbuster in the Entire World

It’s official: The Blockbuster in Bend, Ore., is now the only one on in the world.

Navigating the Oregon Trail is Never Easy, Even With Leading Man Jimmy Stewart as Your Guide

In an early scene of Bend of the River, set to screen Dec. 9 at Hollywood Theatre, Stewart stars as a trail guide named McLyntock trying to persuade the pioneers in his charge to make the trek to Portland by going around Mount Hood, not over it. As was the acting legend’s custom, Stewart plays a morally upright man in the Western, but one with a violent past liable to be unearthed by the gunfighters and oligarchs he encounters on his quest for idyllic Oregon farmland.

Federal Report Says Climate Change Set to Wreck Oregon’s Skiing Tourism

Rising temperatures in the Southern Cascades mean less powder on Christmas.

People Continue to Move to Oregon, But Locals Aren’t Breeding

Oregon’s population is growing, but it’s not because people are having kids.

You Can Drink a Beer Dedicated to the Nation’s Last Blockbuster at 10 Barrel Brewing Later This Month

Nothing conjures nostalgia like inebriation. At least that’s the thinking behind 10 Barrel’s latest special-release beer: The Last Blockbuster. The Sinistor Black Ale is a collaboration between 10 Barrel’s brewmaster Jimmy Seifrit and Sandi Harding, the store manager at the Bend, Ore. Blockbuster, which is the last of its kind in the nation.

“Broken Guy” Who Stole Plane from Seattle Airport Used to Run a Bakery on the Oregon Coast

The motives of Richard “Beebo” Russell, who stole a prop plane from Seattle Tacoma International Airport, remain unclear.

Video: We Visited the Last Blockbuster in America. Here’s What We Found.

Apart from employee uniforms—which now include shirts that read “Last Blockbuster in America”—nothing has changed in the last two decades.

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