Tri-City News

Dan and Karen Christesen may have become homeless Thursday, but by Friday the couple who were ordered by a city official to stop sleeping in their rental storage unit were assured that help was on the way.

A workshop titled "Learn to sell items on-line" will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the South County Resource Center, 140 S.W. Chadwick Lane.

The annual Myrtle Creek Winter Festival at Millsite Park will be the destination for the annual Timber Truckers Light Parade Dec.

Everyone is thinking about it this Thanksgiving week. Not everyone is looking forward to it.

More Tri-City motorists appeared to be buckling up when they hit the road -- or they just weren't driving in areas where special seat belt enforcement patrols were being conducted.

Participants in two federally-funded college preparation programs are searching for volunteer opportunities for nonprofit groups.

Members of The River Foursquare Fellowship are offering a free soup supper to the community at 6 p.m. every Sunday evening in the church at 181 Grant St.

Three local women were injured in a Thursday evening crash on Gazley Road, police said Saturday.

It's getting colder when Tri-Citians get up and head off to work and that means drivers need to be on the lookout for icy roads, foggy skies and other winter-weather driving hazards.

Three suspects are in custody this morning after a high-speed chase on Interstate 5 Tuesday afternoon near Myrtle Creek, a Myrtle Creek police officer said this morning.

Bids for the long-anticipated Weaver Road extension between Myrtle Creek and Tri City should go out next summer, Robb Paul, Douglas County's public works director told the Board of Commissioners on Wednesday.

The historic Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River, Ore., is being bought by Tri-Cities and Eastern Oregon hotel owner Vijay Patel of Kennewick.

It's difficult for South County residents to tap into resources, training and higher education, according to area business and education leaders.

Sisters Kaylee O'Sullivan, 6, left, and Madison, 5, of Canyonville stuff the arms of a scarecrow during the "scarecrow factory" at Mary's Garden in Canyonville on Saturday.

Featured quilting artist Robin Fouquette will be on hand for an artist's reception between 4 and 6 p.m. Friday.

A young man from the Tri-Cities has a near death experience after complications from the swine flu.

Dale Wayne Hill, 39, leaves court after oleading not guilty during a brief hearing before Circuit Judge Joan Seitz this morning in Roseburg.

Bob Cotterell, a World War II bomber pilot who later served for a dozen years as mayor of Myrtle Creek, died on Monday.

Several changes in The News-Review editorial staff have come about recently, including the recent hiring of a reporter who's quite familiar with Douglas County.

The annual appearance of volunteers in red T-shirts hawking newspapers on Tri-City street corners is starting to become a familiar sight.