Douglas County News

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.

Perry Burdic of Riddle works on a piece of jewelry at the Syryne Jewelry booth at the annual Christmas Craft Fair at the Douglas County Fairgrounds Saturday.

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

Forecasters predict that Oregon will see its coldest night in over 40 years as many cities are still reeling from Friday's snowstorm that dumped over a foot of snow across the southern Willamette Valley.

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.