Reedsport News

The tubes are used to collect day-use fees at sites in the Siuslaw National Forest and the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, but they are being vandalized by thieves.

The Elliott State Forest , east of Reedsport, is but a sliver of some 30 million acres of private and public timberland in Oregon.

Police are still looking for a man they say robbed a drive-thru coffee shop in Junction City at gunpoint Sunday morning, officials said.

Oregon has many natural and scenic treasures worthy of protection. We support establishing wild and scenic rivers and wilderness areas.

The Douglas County Clerk's Office today mailed ballots to 62,773 voters for the May 21 election, Chief Deputy Clerk Jeff Doty said.

The Douglas County Major Crime Team says 57-year-old Kirsten Elaine Englund of Castro Valley, Calif., was found dead Sunday at the Winchester Bay Wayfinding Point, located along U.S. Highway 101 about three miles south of Reedsport.

An Oregon man arrested on suspicion of carjacking and kidnapping a man at gunpoint and nearly carjacked a woman during a wild crime spree in Northern California, also may be linked to the death of a woman in Oregon, authorities said Tuesday.

Two state police detectives have gone to California to talk to a man about the slaying of a woman whose body was found near the Umpqua Lighthouse.

For the first time in six years, a freight train carrying plywood left Roseburg Forest Products' mill in Coquille on Monday.

With talk about "environmental terrorism," the Oregon House approved two bills Tuesday that target tree sitters and other environmental activists who interfere with logging in state forests.

A couple found the body of a woman at the bottom of a steep hill below a popular Pacific Ocean overlook along Highway 101 on Sunday morning.

In Douglas County, there is no actual organized event because the county is equipped with year-round drug drop boxes.