Roseburg News

Representatives of a local volunteer reading program are sitting down today with Roseburg elementary principals to discuss how the Start Making a Reader Program might better fit into school schedules.

A former football coach at North Bend High School died Friday night and the school's athletic director was injured in a two vehicle crash on Highway 138W about ten miles west of Sutherlin.

Roseburg businessmen vying to be the Republican Party's offering to replace a five-term state representative are emphasizing their differing experience.

Police arrested a Roseburg man at gunpoint in front of an elementary school Wednesday after he allegedly took officers on a brief pursuit while driving intoxicated.

These logs are the highlights of initial emergency calls and reports to the Douglas County Dispatch Center.

Roseburg City Recorder Sheila Cox was pleasantly surprised when she attended a meeting of a state association of city recorders last week in Klamath Falls.

Air quality has improved this morning after Wednesday's smoky conditions across Southern Oregon.

Click Here for Steve Lindsley's story The Rattle Fire, in the Umpqua National Forest in Central Oregon, is more than 18,000 acres, but firefighters feel they have a pretty good handle on the blaze.

By Lindsey Doi September 25, 2008 ROSEBURG, Ore. -- The Douglas County Hazmat team held a drill on Thursday to practice removing oil or gasoline from local rivers.

Farmers and ranchers around the around the area will be burning off their fields in the next few weeks.

Steelworkers weld the frame of the Roseburg Public Safety Center. The project is slated to be complete in the summer of 2009.

Jordan Elliott of Roseburg covers her ears as a Douglas Fire Protection Agency helicopter flies towards the river after dropping water on a wildfire located on a hill behind the South Gate Market off Highway 99 ...

A 1-year-old Sutherlin girl who died after she was run over by a pickup driven by her father has been identified as Poppy Josephine Hart.

Oregonians in two parts of the state have been told to evacuate as the state's hot, dry September begins to translate into more wildfires.

By Lindsey Doi September 17, 2008 ROSEBURG, Ore. -- The Seventh Day Adventist Church of Roseburg is collecting donations from the community in hopes of filling truck full of supplies.

Oregon State Police troopers are continuing the investigation into a Wednesday morning fatal crash involving an 27-year old Myrtle Creek man who died after he was struck by a vehicle while trying to walk across ...

While two month-old fires in Southern Oregon were growing, fire crews in the region faced the threat Tuesday of a new round of lightning strikes.

Registration is open for a seminar aimed to educate people about the relapses a person with schizophrenia experiences.

Fire officials say record high temperatures, low humidity and the threat of dry lightning storms Tuesday and Wednesday will increase the danger for new fires to form, and existing fires to blow up in the ...

The Rattle Fire, which has closed Highway 138 East about 60 miles east of Roseburg since Saturday, grew by nearly 500 acres Tuesday, but fire officials say that spurt was largely due to burnouts - fire started ...