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As the smoke clears, ranchers in Eastern Oregon face uncertainty
In a normal year, the grass is mostly dry in the summer. The mountains look yellow with some spots of green, lots of sagebrush and some short trees bunched together. Standing in her front yard, Amanda Smull points to hills where the lightning hit and sparked a fire on July 17.
Oregon governor’s panel makes hundreds of recommendations to reform Coffee Creek prison
Oregon Department of Corrections officials have received hundreds of ideas from a governor-appointed panel for reforming the state’s only women’s prison and better protecting women against trauma, sexual abuse and misconduct. The recommendations would make administrators more accountable for Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, which houses about 900 female inmates, and seek a change in culture at the prison in Wilsonville. They also would increase oversight of allegations of sexual assault and strip searches and expand behavioral health programs, records obtained by the Capital Chronicle show. ...
A look at Kennedy cross country's 2024 schedule
Kennedy cross country will look a bit different this year. The program graduated six runners across the two teams. On the boys side, the departure of last season's district champion Johnathan Kintz will be difficult to replace, while the girls have to fill three spots from last season's team that won districts and qualified for the state meet. Sophomores Lukas Bauman and Aaden Carmack are the lone varsity returners for...
Ashland woman sues police, Providence for alleged forced urine sample
Liese Behringer, now 68, alleged in a civil complaint that staff at Providence Medford Medical Center staff forcibly inserted a catheter into her even though she agreed to provide a urine sample — just not in front of then-Ashland Police Officer Justin McCreadie who had arrested her. The officer, who is now a detective for the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, had obtained a warrant for the urine sample, but not to do it with force, Behringer’s attorney, Joy Bertrand, said in court on Tuesday. The city of Ashland and Providence have both denied wrongdoing.
Jackson County Fire District 5 addressing $1.5M budget shortfall
PHOENIX, Ore.- Jackson County Fire District 5 addressing its financial issues during its Board of Directors meeting Tuesday night, following the termination of the former fire chief. Last week, former Fire Chief Charles Hanley’s contract with the fire district was terminated after he was found guilty of misconduct. In...
Rewards climb to $2,000 in pellet gun poaching case
Rewards doubled for information leading to the individuals(s) using pellet guns to harass and kill deer in Roseburg this summer following multiple calls to report carcasses to the Turn In Poachers (TIP) line. The Oregon Hunters Association (OHA) is offering $2,000 cash, or four ODFW hunter preference points for information...
Large quantity of suspected methamphetamine found in Roseburg park under investigation
ROSEBURG, Ore. – Authorities with the Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team are currently investigating a large amount of suspected methamphetamine that was found by a citizen in a local park earlier this week, according to DINT officials. Authorities said that law enforcement officials were contacted when a citizen found what...
School districts locally are cracking down on cellphone use in classrooms; new rules start this year
Cell phone use in classrooms has become a problem nationwide, and locally, Culver High School is cracking down on the restrictions. Starting this year, all students within all schools will have to have their cell phones "Turn Off and Away." Local districts crack down on cell phone use in classrooms;...
Southern Oregon floating offshore wind clears one bureaucratic hurdle in a long process
Oregon’s coast is inching closer to generating renewable electricity using floating offshore wind turbines, though any construction is still years away. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, announced it has finalized an environmental assessment. The assessment looked at potential impacts from issuing leases to develop floating offshore wind in the region. BOEM is the federal agency tasked with identifying, proposing and leasing the ocean areas.
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