Nursing home patients at the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center get by with a little help from their four-footed friends.
Umpqua Community College students who graduated with a nursing degree say they were not informed how the program ending its national accreditation would impact them.
On April 11, 1966, Air Force Airman First Class William H. Pitsenbarger of Dayton, Ohio descended from a helicopter into one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
The American Red Cross faces a critical shortage of blood this holiday season and is urging community members to give blood the day after Christmas.
The national Department of Veterans Affairs has dropped its star ranking system under which VA hospitals across the country were given one to five stars.
Bryan M. Parker. Ann E. Evans. Corey A. Hill. Rick A. Barker. Richard L. Valade.
Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center chaplains and local churches will host a Blue Christmas Service for people struggling with emotional or spiritual pain and loneliness during the winter holiday season.
Free toys will be offered at a Christmas shopping event this week for children of veterans and military service members.
The Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center will hold a town hall meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 18 at the VA's Building 16 Auditorium at 913 NW Garden Valley Blvd., Roseburg.
Roseburg National Cemetery will host a wreath-laying ceremony in December to honor military veterans.
On Thursday morning, students at Roseburg Junior Academy could still feel the back-breaking work they’d done the day before.
Veterans and active military personnel got some help with their dental needs Wednesday during Freedom Smiles day at Dr. Alanson Randol’s dental offices in Roseburg.
Thousands of Douglas County residents streamed in from all directions Tuesday morning to line Southeast Jackson Street in Roseburg.
Roseburg veteran Don Severson enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in December 1942, a year after World War II started.
In March 1946, about a month after my birth, a priest baptized me by immersion in water at the Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church in Warren, Ohio. During the ceremony, he placed a silver chain with the three-bar Eastern Orthodox cross — also known as a St. Andrew’s cross — provided by my pare…
My battalion in the U.S. Marines had been in Vietnam only a month, working out of Dong Ha near the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). The war hadn’t really hit us yet, but we had taken casualties, lost friends and knew harder times were coming soon.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The columns of Bill Duncan are being reprinted in The News-Review. Duncan, who died in November 2011, wrote a weekly column for The News-Review and The Capital Press of Salem from 1981 to 2011. Duncan wrote the following column in August 1997. His thoughts are still pertinent …
Douglas County Human Resources Director Michael Kurtz’s great grandmother had to sew a fifth star onto her four-star flag to account for all her sons serving in World War II.
Jiu-jitsu helped Matt Bricka adjust to civilian life, and now he’s teaching the martial art to other veterans and first responders for free.
Jerry Frear was a Vietnam veteran in the U.S. Marine Corps and served 10 years during the war in Vietnam. Incredibly, he earned three Purple Heart medals and many other citations while he was there.
Russel Nelson of Roseburg was 20 years old when he was drafted into the military in February 1943.
ELKTON — U.S. Army veteran Raymond Osborne received his 2019 Elkton High School diploma Wednesday at the charter school’s Veteran’s Day Assembly.
The couch moved aside, lights went up, and a camera was readied Wednesday at World War II veteran Redge Ranyard’s Roseburg home.
On a Tuesday afternoon in February, three homeless men sat with veteran advocates Vern Jorgensen and Tonya Hall in a spare room on the third floor of Building 2 on the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center campus.
Issiah Rookstool was one of 15 Douglas High School freshmen to give back to the veteran community Wednesday by volunteering time to clean the grounds of the Roseburg VA Health Care System.
Four Douglas County war veterans got the flight of a lifetime when they were invited to join the Honor Flight of Southern Oregon in September to see the war memorials in Washington, D.C.
Veterans can learn more about death benefits at a seminar to be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center auditorium.
The Douglas County Veterans Service Office will be closed to all walk-in visitors and appointments during the week of Oct. 14-18, while staff members attend an annual training.
Douglas County Veterans Day Parade Committee is seeking applications for parade entries and grand marshals.
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden told local veterans Thursday he would hold the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center and himself accountable for addressing their needs.
The Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center announced Wednesday it has added a local urgent care to its network.
Randy Fulkerson served as a member of the United States Marine Corps from 1979-88 with the Military Police, as a SWAT team leader and as a scout/sniper.
Smoking will be prohibited on all of the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center's campuses beginning Tuesday.
The Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center will host a free Veterans Stand Down at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 25 in the Building 16 auditorium at the VA campus, 913 NW Garden Valley Blvd., Roseburg.
The end came with more of a whimper than a bang.
In September, an invasion of alien enthusiasts is expected to descend on the desert outside Area 51.
