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Social Media Assists in Hostage Situation

Early Tuesday morning, just before 1:115am, Emergency Communications of Southern Oregon was notified about a post on the Jackson County Scanner Page. A 49-year-old male, posted on the scanner page that he...

Two Women Arrested on Child Abuse Charges

According to the Del Norte County Sheriff's Office, two Del Norte County Unified School District employees, special education instructional assistant, and a second-grade teacher at Pine Grove Elementary School, were arrested Friday...

Vehicle Destroyed by Fire

Sunday evening, January 19th just after 5:30pm, the Illinois Valley Fire District responded to a vehicle fire located off of Illinois River Road near HWY 199. (courtesy...

Coast Guard Rescues Disabled Commercial Fishing Vessel

Tuesday morning, January 21st, the U.S. Coast Guard Station Umpqua River received a call from the commmercial fishing vessel Yaznak that they had experienced a broken drive shaft north of the Umpqua...

Wet Work Week Forecast

A cold front is forecast to move across the Pacific Northwest on Tuesday, bringing low elevation rain and heavy mountain snow. This will be the first of several waves of unsettled weather...

Series of Burglaries Leads to Arrest

Since January 13, 2020, the Grants Pass Department of Public Safety has received multiple reports of burglaries to a list of local businesses, with one business burglarized twice. Grants...

Wet Weather to Continue

Southwest Oregon and northern California inland and coastal areas have been very wet over the past several weeks with observed precipitation levels above average. (GOES-West Water Vapor...

Lady Bruins Drop Second Game of Early Season

The Lady Bruins, coming off a big win Tuesday night against the Douglas Lady Trojans showed up in Sutherlin to take on the Lady Bulldogs in name only. At no point in...

Bruin Boys Struggle in Sutherlin

Jess Beaman and the BHHS varsity boys stepped off the bus in Sutherlin and walked right into a dkdlsf with the 1-1 Sutherlin Bulldogs. Both teams had two things in common before...

Drunken Assault at Sea Nets Federal Prison Sentence

Brandon Michael Vanderploeg, 39, of Winchester Bay, Oregon, was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison and two years’ supervised release for assaulting his then-girlfriend aboard a fishing vessel in August...