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US: Salt Creek Fire Grows To 1,500 Acres In Southern Oregon 2
The Salt Creek Fire, burning about 10 miles east of Eagle Point, was first reported just after 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 7, and had grown to about 1,500 acres as of Monday. RESTRICTIONS AND USAGE TERMS: Please credit “Don Fitch via Spectee”. NOTE: Time-lapse, No audio, Looped video Video Location: Talent, Jackson County, Oregon, US Video Recording Date/Time: July 7, 2024.
Heat wave continues through the weekend with critical fire weather conditions
An EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING has been issued for areas west of the Cascades and away from the coast in Curry, Josephine, Jackson and Siskiyou Counties until 9 PM Tuesday. Click on the 'Alerts' tab above for more details. A HEAT ADVISORY has been issued east of the Cascades in Klamath,...
Talent’s Malmgren Garage added to National Register of Historic Places
TALENT, Ore. – The Malmgren Garage in Talent, Jackson County is among Oregon’s latest entries in the National Register of Historic Places. Oregon’s State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation recommended the property’s nomination at their March 2024 meeting. The National Park Service—which maintains the National Register—accepted the nomination on May 9, 2024.
Jackson County's cooling shelters could operate past four-day planned slot
Shelters in Medford and Ashland are looking for additional volunteers in case the severe weather moves into next week. Cooling shelters in Jackson County could operate past initial four-day slot. Medford and Ashland’s cooling shelters are set to open Thursday through Sunday as a major heatwave hits the region, but...
Update: Prepare for temperatures up to 115 degrees until Tuesday night
On Sunday at 1:29 p.m. an updated excessive heat warning was issued by the National Weather Service in effect until Tuesday at 9 p.m. for Eastern Curry County and Josephine County and Jackson County. "Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures of 105 to 115 degrees, and low temperatures in the...
Police bust Shady Cove black-market grow site at former school
SHADY COVE, Ore. -- Police discovered over 1,000 marijuana plants and four firearms at an illegal grow site in the 20400 block of Sawyer Road in Shady Cove. The site was once a school. According to a news release from the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, police took 1,108 illegal marijuana...
15 Years Jail Without Parole For Man Who Shot Bullets Into Ex-Wife’s Central Point House
JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. — Following a shooting incident in the house of a woman in the 6000 block of Downing Road, Central Point, Oregon, on August 17, 2023, her ex-husband, Thomas Lee Parks, 48, was arrested. Parks has now been sentenced to 15 years in the Oregon Department of Corrections.
Black-market cannabis grow busted at former school site in Southern Oregon
SHADY COVE, Ore. – The Illegal Marijuana Enforcement Team (IMET) in Sothern Oregon served a search warrant Tuesday morning at a black-market cannabis grow in the 20400 block of Sawyer Road in Shady Cove, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office reports. The property was once the site of a school...
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