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Umpqua Economic Development Partnership Executive Director Brian Prawitz talks about last week’s Economic Summit event.

May 20, 2025 11:00 a.m.  Roseburg Police cited a man for depositing trash within 100 yards of a waterway on Monday. An RPD report said at 11:50 a.m. the 54-year-old was contacted on the backside of the Roseburg Area Chamber of Commerce office in the 400 block of Southeast Spruce Street. The area where the...

Roseburg Salvation Army Captain Edith Dye-Mabie talks about a recent grant they have received from Douglas Electric Cooperative and from a national bank.

May 20, 2025 10:30 a.m.  Roseburg Police cited a man for prohibited camping on Monday afternoon. An RPD report said at 2:30 p.m. the 59-year-old had his recreational vehicle set up in the parking lot of the former Albertson’s store in the 3000 block of Northwest Stewart Parkway. The vehicle had been there for at...

May 20, 2025 10:20 a.m. Roseburg Police jailed a man for a downtown trespass incident on Monday. An RPD report said shortly after 9:00 a.m. officers saw the 69-year-old in the 600 block of Southeast Jackson Street. This is part of the city exclusion zone. Dispatch confirmed that the man was excluded from the downtown...

May 20, 2025 10:10 a.m.  Roseburg Police jailed a man on the charge or resisting arrest and for a probation violation on Monday. An RPD report said at 9:00 a.m. officers contacted the 33-year-old in the 500 block of Northeast Stephens Street after employees of the business called and wanted the man trespassed. During the...

May 20, 2025 10:00 a.m.   Roseburg Police jailed a man early Tuesday for an alleged prior harassment incident. An RPD report said at 2:15 a.m. officers contacted two people in a suspicious vehicle at the intersection of Southeast Hoover Avenue and Southeast Fullerton Street. The officer was aware of a previous care in which the...

May 7, 2025 9:50 a.m. Roseburg Police cited a man after his vehicle collided with a telephone poll on Monday night. An RPD report said at approximately 8:50 p.m. officers contacted 24-year-old Jakob Allen regarding the wreck in the 2600 block of West Harvard Avenue. Allen was heading westbound in his SUV when his phone...

May 20, 2025 9:30 a.m.  Roseburg Police jailed two people following an overnight disturbance early Tuesday. An RPD report said at 3:30 a.m. officers responded to the incident at a trailer park in the 2000 block of Northeast Stephens Street. A man reported that a woman had punched him in the face multiple times. The...

May 20, 2025 9:20 a.m.  Roseburg Police jailed a man for an alleged assault incident on Monday. An RPD report said at 11:30 a.m. officers contacted 39-year-old Justin Martin after he was called in for allegedly fighting with an employee at Umpqua Valley Rehab in the 500 block of West Umpqua Street. Multiple witnesses told...

May 20, 2025 4:00 a.m. The Umpqua Valley is slated to experience mostly sunny conditions for the next two weeks. Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Medford told News Radio 93-9 FM and 1240 KQEN that not much active weather is expected in the near future. Forecasters said there may be occasional periods of...

May 20, 2025 3:50 a.m. Less than 12 percent of ballots have come in for the 2025 Douglas County May Special Districts Election. County Clerk Daniel Loomis said 11.54 percent, or 10,105 ballots, have been received as of Monday afternoon. Loomis said that lags 5.34 percent behind the participation rate for the same point in...

May 20, 2025 3:40 a.m.  Roseburg city fees for drinking water, storm drainage service and other services will increase on Tuesday, July 1st to reflect increased costs to provide those services. A city release said the Roseburg City Council recently approved a yearly update to general fees and water-related fees and established a new $100...

May 20, 2025 3:30 a.m. Covering coastal Douglas County: The City of Reedsport has announced that Main Street Director Rosa Solano is leaving the program. A release said Solano’s last day with the program is May 30th, but she will continue to work for the city on a part-time basis with tourism-related projects. Solano said,...

May 20, 2025 3:20 a.m.  Mercy Outpatient Imaging, in partnership with Heritage Imaging, will have an open house Thursday to showcase its state-of-the-art PET/CT scanner, which is one of only two fully digital scanners in Oregon. PET stands for Positron Emission Tomography. Mercy staff said PET is a test that uses special imaging cameras and...

May 20, 2025 3:05 a.m. In the KQEN Cultural Spotlight: The Umpqua Valley Youth Orchestra will perform their Spring Concert Tuesday night at 7:00 pm. in the Jacoby Auditorium of Umpqua Community College. Musical selections will include Rey’s Theme from Star Wars, the Rite of Spring from Stravinsky, a Swedish Melody, Adagio for Strings by...

May 20, 2025 2:50 a.m. U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has announced town halls in Coos, Curry and Jackson counties over the upcoming Memorial Day weekend. A release said that the Saturday town halls will include 4th District Congresswoman Val Hoyle and will be held: *In Coos County at North Bend Middle School at 2:30 p.m....

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May 20, 2025 3:00 p.m.  Two people were taken to the hospital following a weekend crash on Saturday. A Douglas County Sheriff’s Office report said at approximately 1:15 p.m. a trooper responded to the wreck at the intersection of Old Highway 99 and Dillard Gardens Road in the Dillard area. An 82-year man driving a...

Live from Salem, State Senator David Brock Smith covers current legislation under consideration by the Oregon State Legislature.

May 19, 2025 11:10 a.m.  A Myrtle Creek man was jailed for a warrant after a traffic incident on Friday afternoon. An Oregon State Police report said at 12:45 p.m. a large SUV was being towed and was impeding traffic near the intersection of Highway 99 and Dole Road in the Myrtle Creek area. A...

May 19, 2025 10:50 a.m. Roseburg Police cited a man for harassment on Friday evening. An RPD report said at 5:30 p.m. the 24-year-old agreed to meet with officers in the 700 block of Northwest Garden Valley Boulevard regarding an incident which had allegedly taken place on May 2nd. At the time, the man had...

May 19, 2025 10:40 a.m.    Roseburg Police jailed a man for a parole violation on Friday afternoon. An RPD report said just after 4:00 p.m. officers contacted the 42-year-old in the front yard of a residence in the 300 block of Southeast Pine Street and learned that his parole officer wanted him detained. The...

May 19, 2025 10:30 a.m.  Roseburg Police jailed a man on the charge of second-degree criminal trespass on Friday evening. An RPD report said at 5:50 p.m. officers contacted the 31-year-old in the Roseburg Exclusion Zone in the 700 block of Southeast Jackson Street and knew that he was trespassed from the area. He was...

May 19,2025 10:20 a.m.  Roseburg Police jailed a man for violation of a no contact order early Monday morning. An RPD report said at 2:20 a.m. the 58-year-old was stopped for traffic violations in the 2700 block of Northwest Edenbower Boulevard. During the contact, officers saw that the man had a woman as a passenger...

May 19, 2025 10:00 a.m. Roseburg Police jailed a man for a warrant and a weapon charge on Sunday. An RPD report said at 10:25 a.m. officers contacted the 33-year-old in the 200 block of Southeast Pine Street. It was discovered that the man had a warrant for his arrest. He was taken into custody,...

May 19, 2025 9:30 a.m.   Roseburg Police jailed a woman for an alleged harassment and theft incident on Sunday. An RPD report said shortly after 5:00 p.m. officers responded to a disturbance between two people in the 1400 block of Northwest Veterans Way. An investigation determined that during the incident, 42-year-old Gina Clay-Poor jerked the...

May 19. 2025 9:20 a.m.  A Winston man died in a two-vehicle wreck on Thursday night, with the second driver in jail on manslaughter and other charges. A Winston Police Department report released on Monday said shortly after 10:10 p.m. officers and deputies from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office responded to the crash at the...

Douglas County Clerk Daniel Loomis talks about the Special District Election. Ballots must be cast by 8:00 p.m. Tuesday.

May 19, 2025 3:40 a.m. The Winston City Council will have a workshop and a regular meeting on Monday night. The evening will begin at 6:00 p.m. to discuss the recent League of Oregon Cities 2025 Spring Conference. The council meeting will start at 7:00 p.m. Councilors are scheduled to hear reports from the Park...

May 19, 2025 3:30 a.m. Last week, more than two dozen Roseburg High School students were recognized for completing the training and workforce required to earn professional certifications in healthcare and emergency services – credentials that will help launch their future careers. A Roseburg School District release said through expanding career pathway programs through RHS...

May 19, 2025 3:20 a.m. Adults are invited to participate in the Roseburg Public Library’s Summer Reading Program for fun and prizes. A city release said the program, which runs from Sunday, June 1st through Saturday, August 23rd, is made possible by the Friends of the Roseburg Public Library. A Roseburg Public Library card is...

May 19, 2025 3:05 a.m. In the KQEN Cultural Spotlight: Umpqua Actors Community Theatre presents Noises Off, opening soon. The production is a relentless, high-energy farce filled with embarrassing moments, behind the scenes shenanigans, physical comedy hijinks, and even flying sardines. Attendees will take a trip behind the scenes as everything that could possibly go...

May 19, 2025 2:50 a.m. Every year Oregon State Parks begins the busier season with a small thank you to its visitors – free camping and day-use parking on State Parks Day. An Oregon Parks and Recreation Department release said State Parks Day has been a tradition since 1998 to thank Oregonians for their long-standing...

Kevin Opie of Grants Pass competed in his first barbecue competition over the weekend in the Fly-In Pig Barbecue Competition in Myrtle Creek.

Aviva Health and the Jerry Bruce Community Campus held the 2025 Spring Fair on Saturday, over by Costco in Roseburg.

Every year, Riverbend Live! brings the city of Winston a season of music and community gathering with a lineup of concerts and performances that span the summer. This year, the program will put on five shows at Riverbend Park that…

ROSEBURG — Zumba in the Park returns to Roseburg's Stewart Park every Wednesday from June 18 to Aug. 27.

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May 17, 2025 9:00 a.m. Under 10 percent of ballots have come in for the 2025 Douglas County May Special Districts Election with the election deadline coming on Tuesday. County Clerk Daniel Loomis said 9.58 percent, or 8,391 ballots, have been received as of late Friday afternoon. Loomis said that lags 4.75 percent behind the...

For teens, the stigma attached to topics like suicide and depression can make them a challenge to address, even more so with strangers. On Wednesday evening, Adapt Integrated Health Care gave area youth an outlet to explore their thoughts on…