KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) — The Klamath Irrigation District in southern Oregon has reversed course and now says it has complied with a U.S. government order to stop delivering water to farmers in the drought-stricken area. The district’s directors initially defied the federal government’s order to shut off water to the Klamath Project, but the
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A family of five and their two dogs were awakened by heavy smoke early Monday morning and escaped a fire that destroyed their manufactured home south of La Pine. Investigators traced the cause to a propane space heater placed under the home to keep pipes from freezing.
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A Klamath Falls man has been jailed on two counts each of first-degree murder and attempted murder, accused of firing several gunshots Sunday evening into a home north of Chiloquin, leaving two people dead and two others seriously injured.
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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A 24-year-old Klamath Falls woman was arrested Wednesday on charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the drug overdose death of her 18-month-old daughter, authorities said.
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Klamath County sheriff’s deputies stumbled into a significant illegal marijuana operation this week, finding an amount of marijuana with a street value conservatively estimated at more than $100 million, authorities said.
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A wildfire that prompted evacuation of about 20 homes in the Sun Forest Estates subdivision southeast of La Pine on Saturday afternoon apparently was sparked by a bowhunter’s careless smoking, an area fire official said Tuesday.
Continue ReadingFire crews on Saturday faced the fifth day in a row of extreme, intense fire behavior on the Bootleg Fire, which again nearly doubled in size to nearly 144,000 acres as hot, dry, windy weather persisted on Fremont-Winema National Forest. It got so bad, firefighters had to move to safety zones, and residents who refused to leave were cited and could face arrest.
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Firefighters report more significant progress Tuesday on the Sycan River and Yellow Jacket fires in Klamath County, near the town of Beatty.
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A wind-driven wildfire that broke out Sunday 20 miles north of the Klamath County town of Beatty, prompting a Level 2 (Be Set) evacuation order for residents of Sycan Forest Estates, has grown to 650 acres but is mostly lined, officials said Monday.
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Fuel specialists will be conducting prescribed burns Friday on two units southwest of Crescent, a few days later than planned due to snowfall in the area, the Deschutes National Forest said Thursday.
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A Klamath Falls man faces kidnapping, rape and other charges after he allegedly kept a woman against her will for three days.
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For the first time in over a century, bull trout were found in a reconnected creek channel crossing the Sun Pass State Forest in Klamath County – a significant milestone in restoring and improving habitat for the threatened fish species.
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A new agreement regarding the Klamath River paves the way for the largest dam demolition in U.S. history, to try to save salmon that are critical to tribes and have dwindled to almost nothing in recent years.
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Nearly 60 incoming seasonal contract strawberry harvest workers for Planasa Oregon Operations LLC on Short Road in Klamath Falls tested positive for COVID-19 before they started work about two weeks ago.
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COVID-19 has claimed another life in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 560, along with 363 new cases, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday.
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Touring the destruction left by the Two Four Two Fire, I saw total loss and complete heartbreak, but also much gratitude for the town’s hard-working firefighters — mostly volunteers — who helped save hundreds of other homes.
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Neiman Enterprises, Inc. of Hulett, Wyoming announced this week it has entered into an agreement to purchase and reopen Interfor Corporation’s specialty sawmill in the Klamath County town of Gilchrist.
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The Two Four Two Fire that broke out Monday evening north of Chiloquin grew by late Tuesday night to about 10,000 acres, racing through dried grass, brush and timber, prompting new evacuations and keeping U.S. Highway 97 shut in the area.
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A new, wind-driven wildfire north of Chiloquin prompted more evacuations and still had U.S. Highway 97 closed Tuesday morning, having grown to more than 2,000 acres, U.S. Forest Service officials said.
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Searchers from seven counties and numerous agencies scoured an area northeast of Gilchrist on Saturday for a missing 3-year-old boy who wandered away while camping with family — and more than 17 hours later came happy news: He was found, safe and sound.
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