Greater Douglas United Way has been chosen to help distribute more than $100,000 in federal money to help local agencies provide food and shelter to people in need, and respond to COVID-19.
It was supposed to be much different than this, but then again you can say that about almost anything nowadays.
Two Douglas County businesses joined with a group of other Oregon businesses to file a complaint this week in federal court against Gov. Kate Brown, claiming she violated their constitutional rights by deciding which businesses could remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Douglas County Board of Commissioners declared a drought emergency for the county on Wednesday.
Wednesday’s Douglas County Board of Commissioners meeting wasn’t livestreamed and no video appears to have been archived of the meeting.
Douglas County is about to lose $1 million in income from its agreement to house Oregon Department of Corrections inmates in the Douglas County Jail.
Expect to see less furniture, and people, at your local wine tasting room. Look for restaurants to have somewhat limited menus, and possibly hours — at least initially — as they begin to expand offerings.
The Roseburg City council on Monday extended the state of emergency through June 9. The initial state of emergency was set to expire on Tuesday, May 12. Oregon recently extended its state of emergency to July 6.
The League of Women Voters, an organization that turned 100 this year, expects to serve an unprecedented number of Americans this year through Vote411.org. This one-stop shop website provides information on voter registration, candidate information and on how and where to cast ballots.
With most of the businesses closed and those that are open only serving customers on a limited basis, you would think things would be quiet in downtown Roseburg.
Douglas County officials Friday afternoon submitted an application to the governor for a Phase One reopening.
As ballots have been sent to voters throughout Douglas County, those living within the boundaries of the Roseburg school district are asked to vote on a $94 million bond levy that is said to improve safety, security, vocational education and make improvements districtwide.
Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office won’t enforce the governor’s executive orders against businesses that choose to reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Douglas County election officials were scheduled to arrive at the U.S. Postal Service in Eugene on Thursday, where they planned to turn a key and release about 82,000 primary election ballots into the mail.
COVID-19 has flipped everything we knew and cherished on its head, and like it or not there is no turning back.
Students may no longer be in buildings, but that doesn’t mean that learning has stopped in Oregon — it has changed.
Promoting downtown Roseburg and its hundreds of businesses was one thing. But doing that while overseeing parking enforcement and keeping the area clean of trash proved to be too much for the Downtown Roseburg Association, and the City Council took steps to change that Monday.
In other times, under different circumstances, it might have been worth a chuckle.
An analysis by The News-Review, comparing the number of COVID-19 tests each county has reported to the Oregon Health Authority with that county’s population, showed that as of Tuesday Douglas County had tested 6.6 people per thousand population.
As of noon Saturday, the Douglas Public Health Network reported no new cases of the coronavirus and that the total number of positive cases remains at 23, and 14 of those have recovered.
More funding for rural counties and assistance for small businesses are high on U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden’s agenda for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than 800 Douglas County residents filed for unemployment insurance last week, a stark number but still considerably less than the number of people who filed at the beginning of the month, according to data released Thursday by the Oregon Employment Department.
The City of Roseburg is utilizing Zoom to provide a Stay Home, Stay Safe way to conduct its public meetings. The regular city council meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, will be the first one conducted virtually via the video communication tool.
It’s going to be at least another month before markets and grocery stores will be taking your returned cans and bottles.
The Douglas County commissioners Wednesday announced plans to send a letter to Gov. Kate Brown, urging her to begin allowing businesses to reopen Saturday in five Southwest Oregon counties.
The link to a video of the March 11 Douglas County Board of Commissioners meeting has been restored to the county’s website.
There were no new confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Douglas County, according to the Douglas Public Health Network.
Douglas County is set to receive just over $7 million as part of O&C portion of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act extension, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Friday.
For the second day in a row there were no new cases of COVID-19 reported in Douglas County, meaning the number of positive cases in the county remained at 23.
Sometimes it takes a crisis to highlight a problem that had been right there in front of us all along.
The good news: The IRS has set up an online feature that allows you to check the status of your federal check that is part of the recently passed stimulus package — and it works.
The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which is responsible for workplace safety and health, announced this week that it will be “ramping up its enforcement activity” following an avalanche of COVID-19-related complaints it has received over the past several weeks.
The first and third Saturday of each month is when Christopher Hutton sets his sights on doing the Lord’s work. Hutton and his Under the Bridge ministry pack about three dozen sack lunches and head out into the streets and woods to do what they can to help the homeless with food, and maybe a hug.
Like many stories we work on, this one started with a question, straightforward and simple: How can you stay at home if you don’t have one?
The number of Douglas County residents — as well as those in Oregon and across the U.S. — who have lost their jobs and are filing for unemployment insurance continues to soar, and there does not appear to be any immediate end in sight.
