Klamath County News

A woman who bought 180 cans of beer for an underage party will spend the same number of days under house arrest after pleading guilty to criminally negligent homicide in the death of a teenager killed in a car crash.

A 51-year-old Klamath Falls man has been convicted of using his mom's ATM card to steal $2,300. Klamath County Judge Richard Rambo this week found David Ross Purkhiser guilty of theft, identity theft and fraudulent use of a credit card.

After sitting idle for four months, Interfor Pacific's Gilchrist mill is ramping up again, and officials are calling about 70 employees back to work.

The Klamath County Sheriff's Office and the county jail are having problems with their phone systems and temporary numbers have been set up to allow calls to get through.

Federal energy regulators say a proposed natural gas pipeline from Wyoming to Oregon's Klamath County would have some adverse environmental impacts but most could be mitigated.

Investigators suspect alcohol may have played a role in a rollover accident on highway 66 near Keno involving three Klamath Falls women and three juveniles.

KDRV Staff A June 22, 2009 A KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - A man accused of setting fire to a Klamath Falls bank is in jail.

By Emily Wood A June 19, 2009 A KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - A Klamath County man is hoping to make history as the first person to raise and harvest Tilapia fish in the state of Oregon.

There's no better example of Klamath County's economic perseverance and adaptability than the Liskey farm south of town.

A Klamath Falls man is in custody in the Klamath County jail following an attempt to elude an OSP trooper on Thursday evening.

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Election officials say two people whose names were written in nine times each for a seat on a small park district in Klamath County may have to flip a coin, or something like that, to find out who wins.

Thunderheads building up in the region this afternoon could bring another round of strong storms to the Rogue Valley, forecasters said.

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for areas of Southern Oregon and Northern California through late tonight as another series of thunderstorms develops across the region.

A Klamath Falls man serving a dozen years in prison for sexually abusing a girl has been sentenced to another nine years behind bars in a case involving a different child.

KLAMATH - The Klamath County district attorney will not challenge the state's decision to convert a murderer's sentence from death to life without parole.

Temperatures hit 90 degrees Thursday as thunderheads rose over the mountains of Southern Oregon's Cascades and Siskiyous.

KDRV Staff & Associated Press A May 28, 2009 A SALEM, Ore. -- State foresters predict a slightly worse than average wildfire season in much of Oregon this year.

State foresters predict a slightly worse than average wildfire season in Oregon this year.

Klamath County's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 14.9 percent, a 0.8 percentage point increase over the March revised rate of 14.1 percent, according to the Oregon Employment Department.

An Ashland man who had been missing since heading out on a hike early Friday was found dead Monday in the woods near Dead Indian Memorial Road seven hours after a passerby spotted the man's vehicle.