A spike Thursday of five new cases has the Douglas County COVID-19 Response Team urging county residents not to forget the pandemic's risk even as it adapts to the impact of the Archie Creek Fire.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife successfully transferred close to 700 adult spring chinook and summer steelhead out of the fire-ravaged Rock Creek Fish Hatchery east of Glide.
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning throughout the entire areas of the Archie Creek and Thielsen fires in Douglas County on Thursday.
Douglas County residents who have been displaced by the Archie Creek Fire will still be able to vote in Oregon’s mail-in election this November.
The Henhouse Cafe and Lounge in Riddle has closed its doors temporarily after learning a customer had tested positive for COVID-19.
GLIDE — As the Archie Creek Fire pushed its way closer, 138 Grill owner Christina Hill raced to her restaurant to gather important documents in the event of a worst-case scenario.
8:20 p.m. update: The Douglas Colunty Sheriff's Office is re-issuing a Level 3 "GO!" evacuation notice for residents on Little River Road between New Bridge Road and the end of Little River Road, including all side roads between these two points.
The Douglas County Republican Headquarters in downtown Roseburg was vandalized again early Wednesday morning.
TODAYOvereaters Anonymous — 5 p.m., First United Methodist Church Room 17, 1771 W. Harvard Ave., Roseburg. Meetings will be held outside if weather permits during COVID restrictions. 541-637-8555.
MYRTLE CREEK — Seconds after Jim Forrester was introduced as the new city attorney for Myrtle Creek, councilors asked for his legal opinion on the red, white and blue road markings but ultimately did not make a decision.
GLIDE — When John and Tina Cyphert purchased their manufactured home for their plot of property on Lone Rock Road, John insisted on the home having a metal roof.
Residents of Idleyld Park will be allowed to access their properties on Thursday from noon until 7 p.m., according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.
President Donald Trump has approved a major disaster declaration for Oregon.
Banner Bank is closing its branch in downtown Roseburg this week in a move that bank officials say is partly due to the coronavirus and partly due to the increase of online banking among customers.
Smokers may be limited to where they can light up during outdoor events in downtown Roseburg as the City Council considers a proposal that backers say will help clear the air of second-hand smoke.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The city of Louisville will pay millions to the mother of Breonna Taylor and reform police practices as part of a lawsuit settlement months after Taylor’s slaying by police thrust the Black woman’s name to the forefront of a national reckoning on race.
PORTLAND — Relief from putrid, dangerous air spewing from massive wildfires across the West won’t come until later in the week or beyond, scientists and forecasters say, and the hazy and gunk-filled skies might stick around for even longer.
David Allen Naylor Jr. told police he led them on a chase and a nearly six hour standoff because he wanted to visit his dad in the hospital, but knew he had a warrant out for his arrest.
The bad news came Sunday that the lodgepole pine cabin Frank and Jeanne Moore constructed on their property east of Idleyld Park in 1974 was among the 109 homes lost to the Archie Creek Fire
Evacuation levels along the western flank of the Archie Creek Fire were lowered Monday evening for some neighborhoods.
A Dillard man shot and killed his live-in girlfriend before shooting himself Sunday evening, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.
Crews battling the Archie Creek Fire will be focusing their efforts Monday on the southern flank in the Little River Road area and on the fire's northeast flank near Canton Creek in the Rock Creek drainage, as well as the Panther Creek area east of Steamboat.
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At least 109 residences in Idleyld Park and Glide have been destroyed because of the Archie Creek Fire, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
The Douglas County Sheriff's office Sunday announced a lowered evacuation level for residents between Glide and Idleyld Park.
The Archie Creek Fire has expanded to 121,379 acres as of Sunday morning, according to a release from Northwest Incident Management Team 9.
Virginia Torrey was tired, scared and just plain frazzled. Not to mention running out of money.
They lined up single file — cars, trucks, SUVs, a U-haul trailer and all other manner of vehicle — in the parking lot of the vacant Kmart in Roseburg on Saturday to bring items for those who had been displaced by the wildfires.
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio visited Roseburg on Saturday to attend a fire briefing and learn more about the community’s needs related to the Archie Creek Fire. He came away with a to-do list, just like he said he has at every fire briefing he’s attended throughout his district in the past few days.
Roseburg schools will invest a little more than $135,000 in live streaming equipment to allow students access to a classroom from home.
The U.S. Forest Service announced late Friday that it has now closed the Tiller and Cottage Grove Ranger Districts in the Umpqua National Forest.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations is offering tips to help children learn to be safe as they navigate online education.
Norman Call left his home and business in a hurry Tuesday, grabbing his computer, checkbook, register, underwear and a few extra pair of shorts on his way out.
COOS BAY — Southwestern Oregon Community College is participating in the free National Association for College Admissions Counseling Virtual College Fair from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Healthy Startis a federally funded program designed for communities where the infant mortality rate is at least 1.5 times the national average, with the goal of improving health outcomes for mothers, infants and their families.
Jill Kraack, former child development specialist for Fullerton IV Elementary School, has transformed her home’s attic into a virtual learning place.
The Archie Creek Fire is now at 115,857 acres as of Saturday evening and is now at 10% containment. It is burning in the North Umpqua drainage on the west slope of the Cascades.
The Douglas Forest Protective Association announced Friday evening that mop-up operations had been completed on the French Creek Fire and that the land is now on patrol status.
