KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (KTVZ) — In an effort to ensure access to COVID-19 testing throughout Klamath County, Klamath Health Partnership is offering free testing in Crescent on Monday, July 20. Walk-up and drive through testing will be offered 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. that day at the Crescent Fire District Fire Hall, 136727 Main St. in Crescent.
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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (KTVZ) — A special sonar device was able to help divers find and recover the body of a Chiloquin-area man whose kayak overturned on Klamath Lake earlier in the week, Klamath Falls sheriff’s deputies said. The sheriff’s office Dive Rescue Division found the body of Roger Combs, 52, around 3 p.m. Friday,
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By Eric Tegethoff, Oregon News Service KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (KTVZ) — With the Klamath Basin expected to see one of the driest years on record, struggles for salmon in southern Oregon are piling up this year. The Yurok Tribe and commercial fishing groups tried to convince a federal court that an emergency motion to increase
Continue Reading KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Searchers by air, ground and water have so far been unable to find a Chiloquin-area man whose kayak overturned during a Memorial Day outing on Klamath Lake. Deputies were dispatched around 6:30 p.m. Monday to a call of a person who had flipped over in a kayak, sheriff’s office Public
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Oregon counties created a drafted framework for Governor Kate Brown to consider reopening the state, but the governor incorporated new regional requirements, forcing counties to redraft their plans.
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An Oregon State Police traffic stop of a minivan in Klamath County on Monday led to the discovery of more than $236,000 in cash in vacuum-sealed bags and the arrest of a South Dakota man on drug possession and money-laundering charges.
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An Oregon State Police trooper who was shot and injured Friday in an incident in southern Oregon is recovering, authorities said.
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The Klamath County Sheriff’s Office sought the public’s help Monday in finding a 41-year-old Crescent man who’s been missing since late last week.
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An exchange of gunfire with law enforcement killed the suspect and wounded an officer north of Klamath Falls late Friday afternoon, Klamath County District Attorney Eve Costello said.
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A Sacramento, California man was killed Tuesday night when his car drifted into the oncoming lanes of Highway 97 and into the path of a semi-truck north of Klamath Falls, Oregon State Police said.
Continue ReadingKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed an executive order declaring a drought in Klamath County because of low snowpack and precipitation. The Capital Press reports Brown issued a drought declaration this week, saying that the extremely low water supply is causing natural and economic disaster conditions heading into spring and
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The FBI offered a reward of up to $5,000 Friday for information leading to suspects in a shooting last year that caused more than $400,000 damage to a Midstate Electric Cooperative substation in northern Klamath County.
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Klamath County sheriff’s deputies answering a shots-fired call on Highway 97 near Chiloquin were fired upon by a man in a log home Sunday afternoon, prompting a 9-hour highway closure until he allegedly set the home ablaze and was caught trying to escape.
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An extensive, more than 2-week manhunt for a murder-for-hire suspect in northern Klamath County ended early Friday with a brief Highway 97 pursuit, the use of spike strips and the arrest of a Chiloquin man, sheriff’s deputies said.
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Two days into an extensive manhunt in the Crescent area that has frightened many northern Klamath County residents, the sheriff’s office confirmed late Friday they are still looking for a 31-year-old man called a person of interest in an ongoing homicide investigation.
Continue ReadingFire managers on the Deschutes National Forest plan to ignite a prescribed understory burn near Crescent Wednesday. Officials said the burn will help restore and maintain the fire-adapted Ponderosa pine forest ecosystem. The units being burned are 23 acres in the Marsh project area. They are located approximately 12 miles west of Crescent and a
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The 4-day-old, lightning-sparked Red Fire west of Crescent Lake in the Diamond Peak Wilderness has grown to 350 acres, and Klamath County emergency managers have issued a Level 1 BE READY evacuation notice for Crescent Lake, Odell Lake and Crescent Junction.
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