A Riddle woman with five kids who fought off cancer, was stunned when she found out she had received a $10,000 donation from the Josh Bidwell Foundation to help with the large expenses she incurred after going through cancer treatments.
Roseburg Fire Department Assistant Chief Merrill Gonterman had no idea this would happen after organizing a blood drive for his daughter Hannah.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office isn't involved in monitoring anti-Jordan Cove Energy Project activists' social media accounts, according to Brad O'Dell, spokesman for the Sheriff's Office.
The old baseball field at Bill Gray Stadium in Roseburg will have a new look soon, one that goes beyond a new artificial surface.
Stephen Wilkerson wasn’t going to let anything keep him from helping renovate the baseball diamond at Legion Field on Friday. Not even cancer treatment.
Boys & Girls Club of the Umpqua Valley responds after staff member was arrested on sex abuse charges
After a member of the staff at the Boys & Girls Club of the Umpqua Valley was arrested on Aug. 2, officials at the club say they took immediate action by terminating the staff member and banning him from any club programs or facilities.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office will soon have a second K-9 team in its patrol division.
On Saturday afternoon at the Douglas County Fair, Kendall Holcomb, 12, a member of the Elkton Wranglers 4-H club, shoveled manure from the barn where her Hereford Angus cows quietly chewed their cud.
Now that Umpqua Strong has officially canceled its 2019 9K & 5K run/walk because of a lack of volunteers, organizers are hoping to bring the event back in 2020.
Repairs to the Sutherlin High School gymnasium, caused by February’s record snowstorm, are on track to have the facility ready for the first day of school.
The Douglas County Human Trafficking Task Force has received a $5,000 grant to teach local teens how to protect themselves from becoming victims of human trafficking.
A few hours after Blossom won Grand Champion of the Open Dairy Cow competition, the 4-year-old Jersey cow gave birth to the fair’s newest addition: Doug.
After a quick rainstorm swept through the fairgrounds, alternative-rock band Thrice performed the last concert of the Douglas County Fair concert series to a sparse crowd at the Cascade Community Credit Union amphitheater Friday evening.
Thunderstorms could bring lightning’s spark to dry tinder across Douglas County and southwestern Oregon Friday evening and Saturday.
A group of kids swarmed to the front of the main stage at the Douglas County Fair to watch Steve Chaney and his puppet Corny Crow perform a ventriloquist comedy show Wednesday afternoon.
Bret Michaels came to the Douglas County Fair on Thursday to raise the community’s spirits along with his own, as he celebrated his father, who passed away Sunday. Michaels also dedicated the show to first responders, veterans and community heroes like teachers.
Ashley Wells tried for three years to get an Applied Behavior Analysis facility in Douglas County for her two sons, 5 and 7, who both have autism.
Cool weather and a cloudy sky made for the perfect backdrop for classic rock band Collective Soul’s performance at the Douglas County Fair on Wednesday evening
Fair-goers have a chance to help save lives this week, thanks to Naloxone kits available at the Douglas Public Health Network booth at the Douglas County Fair.
Douglas County Fair Director Dan Hults said Tuesday was a great opening day for the 2019 fair.
Once they built their own precision agriculture farming machine, it didn’t take long for Sutherlin High School FFA students to see how FarmBot is revolutionizing food production.
TRI CITY — Officials briefed U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden on conditions of the Milepost 97 Fire at the incident command center late Tuesday morning.
RIDDLE — Keyboards were clacking, jokes were cracking and the vinyl and 3D printers were hard at work last week at Expanding Horizon’s Drafting and Product Design camp, held at Riddle High School.
For vendors, 4-H club members and other fair workers, Monday was the final day of preparation before the 2019 Douglas County Fair begins its five-day run Tuesday.
The Milepost 97 Fire south of Canyonville was 65% contained as of late Monday night.
William Rowe worried he’d be late as he waited outside the Roseburg Public Library on a warm Thursday afternoon in July for the UTrans bus he needed to take him to work at Taco Bell.
A Josephine County man has pleaded not guilty to 24 counts involving child sex abuse in Douglas County and a trial date has been set for later this month.
A federal rule proposed last week could bar thousands of Oregonians from receiving food stamps.
About noon Tuesday, firefighters at the Milepost 97 Fire who spent the morning felling hazardous trees along Interstate 5 southbound near Canyon Creek stopped for lunch.
As the Milepost 97 Fire enters its second week, crews are making substantial progress, Oregon Department of Forestry officials said.
Tristian Brown has been drawn to law enforcement as long as he can remember and he finally realized his longtime dream this month, when he was sworn in as a deputy for the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
The couple from Trail that robbed six banks across southwest Oregon, including the Banner Bank in Riddle in early 2017, has been sentenced to federal prison by a Eugene judge.
TRI CITY — Containment on the Milepost 97 Fire jumped 10 percentage points Tuesday to 25% — the largest increase since the fire began one week ago.
A Douglas County judge will decide if an attorney can continue to represent Optima, LLC, a small Roseburg company that provides custom software services, in the lawsuit against ATRIO Health Plans, which offers Medicare Advantage health plans.
TRI CITY — The Milepost 97 Fire burning south of Canyonville has grown to 12,336 acres as of Tuesday morning.
Geneva Academy’s road to a permanent campus has been a long one — and they still have miles to go.
Douglas County Public Works has begun its annual chip seal program, repairing Douglas County roadways. It’s a project that will continue through mid-September, and drivers should be prepared for delays up to 20 minutes while work is underway.
