Gold Beach News

Oregon State Police troopers are continuing the investigation into an early Tuesday morning single vehicle fatal traffic crash on Highway 101 about seven miles south of Port Orford.

Cody Short, 19, Brookings, on Nov. 19 was found not guilty of being a minor in possession of alcohol.

Oasis Shelter Home is gearing up again for their Annual Holiday Project. They have been collecting, and giving gifts for nine years.

It's that time of year again when the uninformed make the mistake of trying to use Bear Camp Road as a shortcut from Galice to Agness - and it appears that GPS systems may be the culprits.

As Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown explains it, the people of our state are getting quite a bargain when they elected Brown to the second highest office in the state.

If you're contemplating a drive over the nearly 50-mile Bear Camp Coastal Route between Agness and Galice this fall or winter, forget about it.

By Steven Sandberg A November 23, 2009 A NEAR GALICE, Ore. - A notorious stretch of road in Southern Oregon has proven hazardous yet again.

GOLD BEACH, Ore . - Expected higher water flows in the Chetco River has allowed the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to reopen chinook and steelhead fishing on the lower section of the river.

GOLD BEACH A 19-year-old Port Orford man was indicted by a Curry County grand jury on Thursday on charges of first-degree arson, aggravated theft in the first degree and two counts of second-degree burglary stemming from a crime spree at Pacific High School north of Port Orford in early October.

Plans were unveiled last Thursday for the new Southwestern Oregon Community College Curry Campus in Brookings at a meeting of the Brookings-Harbor Chamber of Commerce.

Last Friday morning at 8:35 a.m. the Oregon Sate Police, with assistance from the Curry County Sheriffs Department and Gold Beach Police Department, responded to a two-vehicle crash just south of Hunter Creek Road.

"Guy," a 10 or 11 year old Dachshund, is one of the two dogs recently found abandoned at Brookings' Azalea Park.

Vaccines for the H1N1 influenza have finally arrived in Curry County in enough volume to start vaccinating the most vulnerable residents children.

Gold Beach Chamber of Commerce's new executive director Sandy Vieira has lived in town for the past four years, but relatively few people know her - although that's about to change.

The Gold Beach City Council gave its tacit approval for City Administrator Ellen Barnes and Police Chief P. J. Janik to hire one new police officer, but with the caveat that the two newest city employees better have the money in their budget to carry this out.

On November 4, 2009, at about 5:05 p.m., the Curry County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call from two Gold Beach residents reporting that while out picking mushrooms near Edson Creek Road and Old Coast Highway just north of Gold Beach, they found what they believed were the remains of a human being in a forested area.

Two Gold Beach residents out picking mushrooms, north of the Gold Beach area, made a much more serious discovery on Wednesday afternoon.

After years of tiptoeing on the line of a financial breakdown, the Curry County Fair Board, under the guidance of Event Center Manager Ron Crook, has found security in a balanced bank book.

Jose Joel Olvera, 32, Smith River, Calif., on Nov. 3 had charges of possession of methamphetamine and delivering meth dismissed.

The Curry County Board of Commissioners signed an order Monday allowing Tidewater Contractors a conditional use permit to mine gravel adjacent to the Old Mill Site about 5-plus miles up Jerry's Flat Road.