Klamath County News

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) placed a recreational use advisory on Odell Lake in Klamath County yesterday following the discovery of algae blooms. The OHA advisory, issued about a month after a similar…

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — High-achieving, low-income students studying Cybersecurity and computer engineering at the Technology Department of the Klamath Community College (KCC) will receive financial support from a generous National Science…

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — The Klamath County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) is investigating a shooting between two known individuals in a vacant house in the area of South Lalakes Avenue and Charley Street on Monday afternoon. KCSO and Oregon…

Passage of a new Oregon state law- the Oregon Mattress Stewardship Act- means Oregon Residents can now recycle their mattresses for free. In terms of the new act, the Mattress Recycling program is now allowed to operate in Oregon, rather…

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Following investigations by the Klamath County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) into the faked kidnapping of Jakob Brandt, the former Sheriff’s deputy, on June 6, have resulted in an additional charge of Driving Under the…

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — The Klamath County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) indicated that staffing cuts following the removal of all county general fund dollars from Animal Control for this fiscal year included the loss of four Animal Control…

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) issued a recreational use advisory for Upper Klamath Lake on Thursday morning, warning that children and dogs should be kept away from the water due to toxic algae. Upper…

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — The Klamath County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) issued a scam alert yesterday after being made aware that a fraudulent message claiming to be a “Final Notice” from the Oregon DMV was circulating via text and email. The…

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — A Blackhawk helicopter from the Oregon Army National Guard rescued one of the three hikers struck by a large falling tree branch while hiking near Harriette Lake on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) on Sunday at around…

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — A Crater Lake park worker rescued 26-year-old Yu Xia, a Chinese national visiting from Delaware, with a broken leg early Sunday morning after Klamath County Search and Rescue (SAR) teams could not descend to the…