GRANTS PASS, Ore. – In the coming days, a local wildlife rehabilitation facility will be featured on a nationwide TV program. This past summer, Terri Irwin — the wife of late wildlife conservationist and TV personality Steve Irwin — came ...
JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. — Rural Metro Fire and Oregon Department of Forestry are actively fighting a fire above Quartz Creek near Merlin and Hugo. Rural Metro says the size of the fire is between 8 to 12 acres. No homes ...
MERLIN, Ore.– A documentary following a local firefighting company received two Emmys this year. Grayback Forestry was the subject of the documentary called “Wildland.” The two directors, Alex Jabloski and Khalil Hudson, followed the crews around for two seasons as ...
MERLIN, Ore.– An eight-year-old boy from Merlin is in the hospital Thursday after being hit by a car. Witnesses at the scene said the school bus dropped off the boy on Pleasant Valley Road near Peach Street Wednesday afternoon. As ...
MERLIN, Ore. – A driver spent nearly an hour trapped inside a car after a crash in Merlin. Rural Metro Fire said in the early morning hours of July 22, a sedan and loaded log truck crashed on Merlin Road ...
MERLIN, Ore. – Pacific Power is planning a short-term outage late Thursday into Friday morning. The outage will allow crews to work on postponed upgrades at their Merlin substation. In a release, Pacific Power says some 6,000 customers will be ...
GRANTS PASS, Ore. – A local wildlife rehabilitation facility was burglarized overnight. Wildlife Images said it appears someone opened a window—which may have gone accidentally unlatched—and entered their facility sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The area burglarized was ...
MERLIN, Ore. – Three people were arrested after police searched a property north of Grants Pass. The Rogue Area Drug Enforcement (RADE) team said they suspected heroin was being dealt out of a Carton Way address, near the Grants Pass ...
MEDFORD, Ore.– An independent study requested by the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Regional Office ranked the top 50 communities in Oregon and Washington at-risk of wildfires. In Oregon, six of the top ten communities on the list were found ...
JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. — A Merlin woman is taking matters into her own hands after learning about a family in need. Iris McFarland was browsing Facebook when she came across a post about a family living on the streets. She ...