Agness News

A few years ago, John Rachor painted his helicopter orange and yellow, so it would be easier to spot if he ever crashed and became the target of a search and rescue operation in the rugged forests of southwestern Oregon.

Belinda Conne, right, cries in the arms of a friend Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 at a hospital in Gold Beach, Ore., at the thought she and her husband and son might have killed their dog for food if they hadn't been found after six nights lost in the woods.

Oregon's two senators have introduced a bill to add 60,000 acres of federal forest land to the Wild Rogue Wilderness.

Grants Pass officers are looking for a man who robbed the Grocery Outlet off Agness and F street Thursday night.

Two landscapes in southwest Oregon are on a list of 18 proposed for Congressional protection by Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior.