Curry County News

A man cana t resist photographing 15- to 20-foot waves breaking on the south jetty of the Chetco River Friday.

Two Gold Beach residents out picking mushrooms, north of the Gold Beach area, made a much more serious discovery on Wednesday afternoon.

During the week of October 5, multiple individuals committed acts of vandalism, theft, and arson at Pacific High School in Port Orford.

The Curry County Commissioners and county law enforcement officials began the difficult task last Friday of finding the price tag that Curry County voters might be willing to pay for 24/7 law enforcement coverage in the county.

The clean-up effort in underway at Pacific High School in Langlois, just two weeks after vandals stole items and set fire to a portion of the building.

Curry Sportsfishing Association and two environmental groups have filed their Notice of Intent to Appeal the Curry County Commissioners decision to allow Tidewater the opportunity to mine gravel in Wedderburn near its processing plant.

GOLD BEACH The Curry County Board of Commissioners on Monday approved 2-1 Tidewater Contractors' request to allow gravel mining at the old mill site on the Rogue River, despite a Gold Beach City Council resolution expressing "serious public safety concerns that such mining would adversely affect the water quality of the city of Gold Beach." The ...

DUII, 1:21 a.m.: Highway 101 /Zimmerman Lane. Shot fired, 11:07 a.m.: Lovell Lane.

Brookings resident Heide Heikilla has been knitting clothes, babies and children for years.

GOLD BEACH A deputy district attorney moved to drop five felony charges against Drake Alexander Bettinger Friday as he said those four charges of being a felon in possession of firearms and one of a felon possessing a restricted weapon were being refiled in Federal District Court in Medford.

State arson investigators and the Curry County Sheriff's Department are awaiting the analysis of evidence taken from Pacific High School, which may help them sort out who may have set fire to the school, damaged the plumbing and stole valuable laptop computers.

GOLD BEACH The Curry County Board of Commissioners is considering buying insurance to cover major medical expenses for inmates in the county jail.

Vaccine for the H1N1 influenza is trickling in, Curry County Public Health Director Georganne Greene said Tuesday.

Look around Curry County and you'll find gorgeous coastlines, scenic forest backdrops, and sports fishing that just might be the most popular in the nation.

People interested in the development of the Crook Point Golf Course in Pistol River got a crash course in golf course development and destination resort zoning in two meetings this past weekend.

With Curry County's fire season officially over as of Wednesday, residents are likely to see more smoke in the area as property owners stoke up the burn barrels and conduct controlled burns.

The first big storm of the season doesna t deter local Monty Moncrief from fishing at the Port of Brookings Harbor Tuesday.

H1N1 influenza has taken a firm grip in Curry County, following patterns seen throughout the Unites States and the world.

With Friday's deadline for fall term registration, Associate Dean Janet Pretti could finally make decisions about where to put which class sessions at the Brookings campus of Southwestern Oregon Community College.

The National Weather Service has issued a gale warning, which is expected to become an alert this weekend in advance of a storm due to hit the Northern California and Southern Oregon coast Monday afternoon.