Word around the Pacific Northwest this year is that the massive mountain snow pack, combined with an extra-cool spring, is contributing to a robust season for river guides and rafting tour companies.
Local river guides say that’s not necessarily true for Central Oregon rafting companies because water levels on the Deschutes and Rogue rivers, the most popular destinations for splashing down...

A new study released by a national real estate analyst group finds that Bend’s housing market was the second most overvalued market in the U.S., behind only Atlantic City, New Jersey, out of 330 cities studied and that as a whole the Pacific Northwest is “precariously overvalued and likely to be the next shoe to drop."