Douglas County News

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

The county is moving ahead with a project in southern Douglas County that would give Myrtle Creek another freeway access point.

Voters on Tuesday rejected two measures that Sutherlin city officials had hoped would bring some stability to municipal water rates.

The Sutherlin Police Department requested that the Douglas County Major Crimes Team review a use of force incident that occurred a week ago.

Douglas County Public Health has scheduled four clinics to provide H1N1 vaccines for people considered to be in priority groups for inoculations.

A Douglas County judge has reduced the bail for a Roseburg man charged with dozens of sex crimes against young juveniles.

Saturday, October 31 marked Lillian Marsters' 100th birthday, and her one wish was to go visit Roseburg High School... 81 years after graduating from there.

Doug Linder has brought the beach to Roseburg. There's no sand involved, but plenty of water, and it's warm.

The H1N1 virus has killed one person and has hospitalized another dozen in Douglas County since the beginning of September.

Deeper cuts slated from the ever-shrinking federal timber safety net have officials from the Douglas County Parks Department scrambling to consider how they will continue to keep parks open.

The Douglas County Relay For Life Steering Committee will prepare for 2010 by holding its first meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at the new Community Cancer Center, 2880 N.W. Stewart Parkway in Roseburg.

A Bend-area man who was behind the wheel of a truck that crashed in September, injuring him and killing his passenger, was arrested Thursday in Douglas County by Oregon State Police on suspicion of Manslaughter in the First Degree and Criminally Negligent Homicide.

Torrance Darcus, 2, left, and her sister Bailey, 2, enjoy themselves during a past Neewollah Parade on Jackson Street in downtown Roseburg.

Current statistics lump together all types of flu-caused hospitalizations and deaths in Oregon, which total 482 and 15, respectively, since Sept.

People can purchase Christmas tree permits from any office on the Umpqua National Forest from Nov.

Medical assistant Beth Bunt displays a vial of swine flu vaccine at North River Pediatrics in Roseburg recently.

Governor Ted Kulongoski will not have to appear in a Douglas County Circuit Courtroom when the lawsuit between Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad and the State of Oregon gets underway early next year.

Terms of two members of the Historic Resource Review Committee are expiring. These two positions, appointed by the Douglas County commissioners, are four-year terms and advise the commissioners about the county's historic resources.

Winston resident Jim Fowler searches for job listings Monday at the Roseburg office of the Oregon Employment Department.

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