Worrisome news broke out of New York on Tuesday as word came of a reporter from The Associated Press who was allegedly grabbed by the shoulders and shoved out of an Environmental Protection Agency building by a security guard while trying to cover a meeting on water contaminants.
Douglas County voters will have a cast of colorful characters to choose between when considering who should fill the seat of Douglas County Commissioner Position 2.
Washington is waking up.
You’re grocery shopping. And you’re hungry. You know it’s a mistake, but you have to get it done. You wander aisle by aisle, being careful to follow your list or sticking to certain meal ingredients. Maybe a bag of chips or cookies make it into your cart, but you otherwise do really well. It…
News this week that both Director Doug Paxton and Chief of Surgery Dinesh Ranjan of the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center have been removed from their positions and reassigned was welcome, but bittersweet.
Two weeks ago, the Douglas County Veterans Forum issued a vote of no confidence against Dinesh Ranjan, the chief of surgery at the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
The world is a pretty hectic place right now and with the holiday coming up, it’s easy to feel like things are getting out of hand.
It takes a special kind of heroism to stand up to a raging inferno, to run into a burning building when others are running away.
Clackamas and South Medford will kickoff at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Reser Stadium in Corvallis to decide which is the best Class 6A football team in the state, but in Douglas County fall sports season wrapped up nearly two weeks ago.
The Roseburg VA has a history of retaliation against whistle-blowers, and we have been disheartened to hear this year from current and former employees that the retaliation continues, even after a complete turnover of the top brass at the VA, and after multiple past investigations and legisl…
The Smarter Balance test scores for 2016-17 were released in October, and Douglas County’s results were mixed. Some of the scores were good, but others were truly awful.
They say the first step to overcoming addiction is admitting that you have a problem.
On the playground, kids are always told to speak up if a bully is on the prowl, or if someone else is acting unsafely. Tell an adult, we say.
The Oregon Department of Transportation has approved a plan to lower the speed limit on Interstate 5 between Roseburg mileposts 123 to 127. The agency offered valid reasons for the change, including recent data from the state’s Speed Zone Review Panel that found an unusually high serious and…
In September, we called for an honest debate surrounding Home Rule. The jury is still out on whether that’s been happening, but what has become evident is that this issue demands your attention and involvement.
Yoncalla should be counting its blessings after the Oregon School Activities Association found the school guilty of “undue influence.”
Whatever happened to the days of honest debate?
Imagine the relief you would feel upon surviving a car crash on an interstate bridge.
