Author: Lauren Denham

$5 million in infrastructure money coming to Bend, Redmond airports

Central Oregon Daily More than $5 million in federal funds is coming to Bend and Redmond airports for infrastructure improvements. Bend Municipal Airport is receiving $3.75 million and Redmond Municipal Airport is getting $1,291,810 from the FAA through the Airport Improvement Program, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced. The money

Oregon conservationists win funding to restore riverside habitats

KLCC A conservation group in Springfield has won $8.5 million in federal funding, which will pay for floodplain restorations along the Willamette River and its tributaries. The plan is to reconnect waterways in the Upper Willamette Basin to several of their historic offshoots and side-channels. The McKenzie Watershed Alliance is

Over $19M headed to Lane County to tackle environmental challenges

KVAL 13 LANE COUNTY, Ore. — Lane County is set to receive more than $19-million in grant funds to fight against climate and environmental challenges. The$19,555,386 in funds comes from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Community Change Grant, via the Biden-Harris Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, aimed at helping disadvantaged communities

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