Douglas County News

An arctic storm slow to leave Oregon has degraded air quality, delayed drivers with dense fog and today could hit Douglas County's roads with freezing rain.

About: A local pastor's wife, Marla Smart stays busy with her family of five and her church.

Douglas County Fire District No. 2 Lt. George Harrold rolls a fire hose Wednesday at the Labrie Ranch after crews put out a fire in the 7500 block of Garden Valley Road northwest of Roseburg.

Glide author Bonnie Leon holds the revised version of her book "Journey of Eleven Moons" Tuesday in a posed photo taken at The News-Review in Roseburg.

Douglas County health and law officials are looking for a pit bull that bit a person at about 5:45 p.m. Dec. 6 at Gardner Avenue and Cedar Street in Drain.

After hearing from the public, the Oregon State Land Board has voted to recommend the sale of nearly 2,700 acres of Elliott State Forest.

She hopes to become a veterinarian and help animals. The dream seems far away, though.

A cold Arctic system that brought snow and single-digit temperatures to Oregon has been slow to retreat, leaving central Douglas County under a mass of stagnant air that's increasing pollution.

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

Advocates say Douglas County's homeless population continues to grow as a stagnant economy wreaks havoc on low-income families and veterans return home from Iraq and Afghanistan to find no jobs available.

Roseburg police identified the man who was found dead in Stewart Park Friday morning as a 51-year-old Roseburg man with no permanent address.

Julia Russill is tired of looking out the window at the vacant Douglas Community Medical Center on West Harvard Avenue in Roseburg.

The Glide School District and North Douglas School District will remain closed Wednesday because of the weather, the districts announced today.

The following school districts have announced closures for Tuesday: Camas Valley, Elkton, Glide, South Umpqua, Oakland, North Douglas, Winston-Dillard and Yoncalla.

Bonnie Morgan, the owner of Exclusively Bridal in Drain, displays one of the several hundred wedding dresses that hang in the store.

The grief-stricken mother of a missing Douglas County man has been scouring the state in search of him since he vanished three weeks ago.

Oregon’s top elected officials got behind a controversial plan Tuesday to sell off pieces of the south coast’s Elliott State Forest to private interests.

Max Hardy, 92, said he remembers his breakfast being interrupted, 72 years ago Saturday, when the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

Ice and hazardous road conditions have school districts already announcing closures for Monday.

Sachi Wrigley, 9, left, and Emmalea Crane, 10, take a tumble as they sled down a hill in Stewart Park Saturday.