Gold Beach News

If you aren't susceptible to cabin fever, don't mind using a privy and shrug off an occasional bear sniffing around, Uncle Sam has a job for you.

The agency says it rescued two divers who were caught in strong currents west of Whidbey Island, Wash., on Saturday evening, and then crews also rescued the people who were operating their dive boats.

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Keith Martin Kirkpatrick, 53, of Gold Beach, Ore., was arrested at 12:29 a.m. May 24 by the California Highway Patrol on Interstate 5 at the Maxwell Rest Area on suspicion of driving while under the influence.

Decent-looking seas are forecast for the weekend after a storm front moves through today, which bodes well for a holiday weekend on the seas.

I'm driving to Gold Beach for Memorial Day weekend. Will Bear Camp Road be open, or do I need to take the long way around? You're in luck, Victoria - the shortest route between Grants Pass and Gold Beach just opened for the recreation season Monday.

A small-craft advisory is posted through tonight, but the ocean is forecast to lay down through the weekend, and fishing should be good.

A memorial service for Heather Bonser-Bishop will take place Sunday from 2 to 5:30 p.m. at the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 24 Fellowship Way.

Snow removal is under way to clear Bear Camp Road, which links Grants Pass to the coast, by Memorial Day weekend.

Former DA calls court from rehab GOLD BEACH, Ore. - Former Del Norte County District Attorney Michael Donald Riese avoided being arrested on a warrant by making a telephone appearance in Curry County Circuit Court this week from the rehabilitation program he checked into a week earlier.

Aerial and marine crews, unable to locate a Rogue River man who plunged into frigid waters near Rainie Falls on Saturday afternoon, ended their Sunday search without success.

Jim Walker of West Salem, who is Rotary's regional assistant governor, addressed Dallas Rotary as it celebrated sixty years during it's Tuesday, May 1, 2012, luncheon at the Dallas Civic Center.

Pretend for a moment that you're trapped in a bad trip and the only thing you can hear is the cyclical recycling of washed-out psychedelia diluted through decades of designer drugs and synthesizers.