Coos County News

Brookings resident Scott Richard Hunter is in jail with a bail of $50,000 after being charged Tuesday with several counts of sexually abusing a child.

A governor's task force issued a 122-page report Monday surveying the problems created by Congress' failure to renew payments to counties that once depended on federal timber revenues.

Horizon and the Coos County Airport District are confirming that the airline is pulling out of the Southwest Oregon Regional Airport, effective October 11th of this year.

Timber industry efforts to get a small sea bird off the threatened species list were denied in two court rulings.

This July 24 when the Curry County Fair opens, a year's worth of work for countless people in our community will finally come to fruition.

Counties hard-hit by the loss of federal timber payments should consider raising local taxes while the state presses Congress for a renewal and looks for other long-term solutions, a task force told the ...

The board of the Coos-Curry Electric Cooperative dropped from six members to five at the close of Saturday's annual meeting.

On Monday, June 6, the Curry County League of Women Voters held a forum on homelessness at the Chetco Community Library in Brookings.

Horizon's plane named for Coos Bay/North Bend takes off from the Southwest Oregon Regional Airport, with the Coos Bay U.S. 101 bridge in the distance.

The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from area police department logs.

A report of a stolen vehicle in Coos Bay Saturday night led to a high-speed pursuit and ended in an accident on a Coos Bay street.

PBS Engineering & Environmental recently moved to 271 North Baxter St., across from the Coos County Courthouse, in Coquille.

May 22 8:58 a.m., criminal mischief reported at Reese Electric, 275 Fillmore Ave.

The following couples have filed for marriage licenses at the clerk's office at the Coos County Courthouse in Coquille: * Jeffery A. Graham and Tia M. Sandberg, both of North Bend.

Titan Maritime, the company charged by the state of Oregon to remove the New Carissa, has found Coos Bay to be a bountiful site when it comes to repairing ships.

A Coos Bay man is scheduled to appear in court Monday on an assault charge stemming from an incident in February that sent a girl to the hospital.

Coos County voters have chosen county assessor Bob Main to serve on the Coos County Commission.

An Oregon man is accused of shaking his six-month-old son so badly that he suffered a severe brain injury Thursday night.

While the primary election for the state of Oregon highlighted a number of prominent national, and statewide, races, the issues and races closer to home were few and far between.

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