Klamath County News

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…

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — Invoking the Conflagration Act, the Oregon State Fire Marshal mobilized its Red Incident Management Team, along with several task forces, to the Elk Fire in Klamath County, approximately eight miles north of Bonanza,…

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — The discovery of an illegal marijuana grow site on Canadian Honker Lane in Sprague River, Oregon, led Klamath County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) deputies to the property yesterday, where they found 234 marijuana plants…

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Two Klamath Falls men were arrested after a night of crime in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The pair stole an ATM, which they dragged with a tow strap, but abandoned it before breaking into the Post office to…

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — The Klamath County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) issued an alert yesterday warning of a recent surge in commercial burglaries, which they are currently investigating. In many of the Klamath County commercial burglaries,…

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — A Klamath County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) Deputy,  Jacob Brandt, was arrested after reporting he had been kidnapped in the early morning hours of June 6. After determining that there were no kidnappers, Brandt was…

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Responding to a report of a shooting in the 1700 block of Gary Street in Klamath Falls early Thursday morning, Klamath County Sheriff's Office deputies found 19-year-old Kane L. Harrell of Klamath Falls with gunshot…