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VA secretary: Making progress on better care for vets
Veterans' Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough says his agency is making progress on reducing the rate of veterans’ suicides and improving care for veterans. But speaking with reporters after a keynote address at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, McDonough said the more than 2,400 mental health professionals and veterans’ service advocates acknowledge there’s more to be done. “It is not a mistake that we are doing this conference in Oregon,”...
People living, dumping on Oregon’s public lands ‘overwhelming’ Bureau of Land Management
Hover over the Redmond Municipal Airport on Google Maps and scroll north of the Ochoco Highway. From a distance, the parcels of public land look like undisturbed patches of Oregon’s high desert: Western juniper trees scattered between brown and green tufts of bunchgrass and sagebrush set in the rain shadow of the High Cascades.
Reggae band SOJA to perform at Britt Festival July 19
JACKSONVILLE, Ore. – The Britt Music and Arts Festival is hosting a number of incredible performers this week, one of them being Grammy Award-winning reggae band SOJA. NBC5 News’ Andrea Boyd got a chance to speak with SOJA’s lead vocalist Jacob Hemphill. SOJA will be at the...
Doctors Say Providence’s Sale of Its Hospitals’ Testing Labs Has Endangered Patients
When two of Portland’s three largest hospital systems announced last year they were selling their testing laboratories to a multinational North Carolina corporation named Labcorp, executives offered reassurances that the transition would be “seamless.”. “Excellent quality” service would continue, Providence CEO William Olson promised in a letter published...
The End Of Fast Food Jobs In California
Gavin Newsom has really blown it this time. The California governor, along with his henchmen in the legislature, arrogantly raised the minimum wage of fast food workers. The liberals proudly proclaimed that the new minimum wage, at least twenty dollars an hour, would allow workers to live like the people they serve. They called it a livable wage.
1.5 acre grass fire put out overnight
PHOENIX, Ore. -- A 1.5-acre grass fire was put out overnight just off Highway 99. Jackson County Fire District #5, Ashland Fire Department, Medford Fire Department and Oregon Department of Forestry responded to Hartly Rd around 9:30 Wednesday night. NewsWatch 12 spoke to Fire District #5 overnight who said no...
Rogue Community College Seeks $60.3 Million Bond to Enhance Educational Programs and Infrastructure
The Rogue Community College (RCC) Board of Education has unanimously voted to place a $60.3 million bond measure on the November 2024 ballot for Jackson and Josephine counties. This proposal is set to drive a host of improvements across RCC campuses, ensuring that the institution can better serve its community and meet the growing demand for skilled workers.
Couple left to rebuild after Central Point Grant Fire
CENTRAL POINT, Ore. - The Grant Fire that erupted Tuesday afternoon leaves Quade Norush and his wife with nothing. Multiple agencies responded to Grant Road in Central Point and the fire prompted Level 2 evacuations. Quade told NewsWatch 12 on a phone call that his wife was hospitalized last week due to E. Coli poisoning after eating contaminated sushi at a local restaurant.
Updated information on lightning-caused fires in Douglas District, new fire confirmed
ROSEBURG, Ore. — The Douglas Forest protective Association is recapping current fire activity and reporting a new fire. Tuesday afternoon, a lightning storm trekked across Oregon with over 1,000 recorded strikes. Of those, an estimated 130 made air-to-ground contact in the Douglas District leading to DFPA activating reconnaissance. The agency says has been in initial attack mode since.
Vegetation fire in Phoenix grows to 1 1/2 acres before contained
PHOENIX, Ore.- A vegetation fire near Hartley Road in Phoenix grew to an acre and a half before it was contained around midnight on Wednesday. According to Jackson County Fire District 5 Battalion Chief Dave Meads, calls for a grass fire came in around 9:30 p.m. It took crews longer...
North Bend Police Department launching 2 automatic license plate readers
NORTH BEND, Ore. – The North Bend Police Department now has two speed alert trailers with Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) and messaging capabilities. According to the department, the trailers cost just over $55,000 and were purchased with money obtained through the federal American Rescue Plan Act grant. “We...
Groups seek stronger protection for 200,000 acres in Siskiyou County with 'purest water'
From the air, the Medicine Lake Highlands in Siskiyou County appears as a vast expanse of mountains covered in forests of pine and fir. But what has groups such as Trout Unlimited, the Pit River Nation and Backcountry Hunters & Anglers of California eager to get federal protection for the area can't be seen on the surface of the mountains or in the fields of volcanic rock.
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