Douglas County News

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden's timber plan holds promise for curbing litigation, but the proposal likely would produce too little timber, Douglas County Commissioner Doug Robertson said Thursday.

Diane Conrad of Glide sets up wares Thursday for the Douglas County Christmas Craft Fair, which continues through Sunday at the Douglas County Fairgrounds.

Maya Mannen, 8, of Roseburg slides down a hill with her snowman at Stewart Park Friday morning after she and her siblings awoke to the first snow of the season in Roseburg.

One Portland-area coordinated care organization, FamilyCare Inc., is partnering with the public school system to improve the nutrition of its meals, and change the recess schedule to encourage exercise before lunch, rather than after.

At least 2 inches of snow will fall in Roseburg Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service in Medford.

Not surprisingly, one of the state's most active conservation groups, Oregon Wild, strongly opposes U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden's Western Oregon timber plan.

These logs are the highlights of initial emergency calls and reports to the Douglas County Dispatch Center.

Sasha the dachshund stays warm in a wrap handmade by owner Iris Arnold of Roseburg, left, as they take a walk Tuesday evening in Roseburg's Stewart Park.

The force used against two men who died this year while being arrested was justified in both cases, a Douglas County grand jury has ruled.

These logs are the highlights of initial emergency calls and reports to the Douglas County Dispatch Center.

These logs are the highlights of initial emergency calls and reports to the Douglas County Dispatch Center.

Two Roseburg men were arrested Monday evening in connection with a burglary in the 2100 block of Doerner Road, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said today.

A Douglas County grand jury has found that police officers in two separate incidents were justified in using stun guns against the suspects - both of whom died following their confrontations with police.

Lucy Fry, 2, of Roseburg takes in the spectacle of the fully lit Christmas tree in front of the Douglas County Courthouse during the annual tree lighting ceremony Sunday night.

Douglas County grew by 655 residents, most of them in Roseburg, in a one-year period that ended July 1, according to an estimate by the Portland State University's Population Research Center.

The moisture soaking the Northwest will be on its way out just as a blast of Arctic air moves the freezing level down to the valley floor, the National Weather Service said Monday.

Douglas County Commissioner Doug Robertson, who chairs the Association of O&C Counties, on Monday said his group is finding a lot more to dislike about Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden's plan for managing some 2 million acres of federal forests in western Oregon.

The long-awaited forest management plan has arrived from Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden. It's too bad it's taken almost the entire year since Wyden became chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee before producing a bill, because it doesn't look favorable for Douglas County.

Though many Douglas County residents are interested in genealogy, they may not be familiar with the Genealogical Society of Douglas County and its resources.

U.S. Forest Service Tiller Ranger District biologists Andre Silva, right, and Casey Baldwin pause during a Nov. 20 field trip to explain new tree planting possibilites in areas more severely burned from last summer's Whiskey Fire.