Southern Oregon News

ROSEBURG, Ore. — Responding to reports of smoke billowing from a broken window at a dentist's office at 2510 NW Edenbower Blvd early yesterday morning,  Roseburg Fire Department personnel extinguished the fire and later established that the…

Edward Lawrence Nelson, who was imprisoned in the Snake River Correctional Institution (SRCI) for murdering his wife in a domestic violence incident in 2013, died in a hospital yesterday morning, according to the Oregon Department of…

COOS COUNTY, Ore. — Bandon Police Department (BPD) officers arrested 53-year-old Brian Tenney and 30-year-old Edith S. Beckner on Friday on felony warrants for charges relating to an Oregon State Police (OSP) investigation of the West Coast…

ROSEBURG, Ore. — Responding to reports of smoke swirling out of the structure, several agencies joined the Roseburg Fire Department to put out a residential structure fire at 544 W. Harrison Street at 6:15 a.m. yesterday. A search…

MEDFORD, Ore. — The City of Medford has concluded three-year National Opioids Settlement Fund funding agreements for a teen substance abuse prevention program launched in schools in late March that has already supported 56 students across…

ROSEBURG, Ore. — The Roseburg Police Department arrested a local man who admitted drilling a hole in the fuel tank of a van at the Roseburg Christian Fellowship- with the intent to steal fuel. The confession came when law enforcement…

JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. — The West Nile virus, typically spread in the US by a mosquito called Culex, which is found across the country, was detected in a mosquito pool in Eagle Point after the Jackson County Vector Control District collected…

Following the National Weather Service’s (NWS)  Extreme Heat Watch warning issued earlier this week, the Medford National Weather Service Office issued an Excessive Heat Warning in Southwest Oregon from 1 p.m. Friday, August 22, until 8…

MEDFORD, Ore. — A Jackson County woman, 36-year-old Cassie Cavagnaro, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for a DUII crash on South Pacific Highway that killed 41-year-old Jason  (Jimilee) Thomas, a former Bend chef, as he was…

ROSEBURG, Ore. — Responding to reports of large dogs fighting a puppy in the backyard of 66-year-old  Edward Andrew Whitely's home, a Roseburg Police Department, accompanied by a Douglas County Sheriff's Office animal control deputy,…