Curry County News

Chinook salmon anglers will be on Curry County's Chetco River for the first time - yet likely only briefly - beginning Thursday after rains wash away a persistent emergency fishing closure there.

Roger Gilbert and Ernest Madden prepare food for their soup kitchen program in Brookings.

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

County commissioners from five southwestern Oregon counties will send a letter next week to the Oregon state forester asking that the state support the maximum amount of state match to federal dollars allocated next year toward eradicating Sudden Oak Death.

GOLD BEACH County Commission Chairman Bill Waddle has proposed cutting the county budget by 25 percent a year for the next three years in an attempt to keep the county solvent until federal funds are gone.

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.

Curry County officials used a $45,500 federal grant to purchase and equip an SUV with high-tech gear such as a satellite and Internet service.

A man cana t resist photographing 15- to 20-foot waves breaking on the south jetty of the Chetco River Friday.

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

During the week of October 5, multiple individuals committed acts of vandalism, theft, and arson at Pacific High School in Port Orford.

The Curry County Commissioners and county law enforcement officials began the difficult task last Friday of finding the price tag that Curry County voters might be willing to pay for 24/7 law enforcement coverage in the county.

The clean-up effort in underway at Pacific High School in Langlois, just two weeks after vandals stole items and set fire to a portion of the building.

Curry Sportsfishing Association and two environmental groups have filed their Notice of Intent to Appeal the Curry County Commissioners decision to allow Tidewater the opportunity to mine gravel in Wedderburn near its processing plant.

GOLD BEACH The Curry County Board of Commissioners on Monday approved 2-1 Tidewater Contractors' request to allow gravel mining at the old mill site on the Rogue River, despite a Gold Beach City Council resolution expressing "serious public safety concerns that such mining would adversely affect the water quality of the city of Gold Beach." The ...

DUII, 1:21 a.m.: Highway 101 /Zimmerman Lane. Shot fired, 11:07 a.m.: Lovell Lane.

Brookings resident Heide Heikilla has been knitting clothes, babies and children for years.

GOLD BEACH A deputy district attorney moved to drop five felony charges against Drake Alexander Bettinger Friday as he said those four charges of being a felon in possession of firearms and one of a felon possessing a restricted weapon were being refiled in Federal District Court in Medford.

State arson investigators and the Curry County Sheriff's Department are awaiting the analysis of evidence taken from Pacific High School, which may help them sort out who may have set fire to the school, damaged the plumbing and stole valuable laptop computers.

GOLD BEACH The Curry County Board of Commissioners is considering buying insurance to cover major medical expenses for inmates in the county jail.

Vaccine for the H1N1 influenza is trickling in, Curry County Public Health Director Georganne Greene said Tuesday.