Lost Creek Lake, Ore. – Portions of a popular recreation area will be closed for a fire camp and incident command center as crews work to suppress the Blanket Creek Fire. According to the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, the ...
Jackson County, Ore. – National Weather Service crews took to the air Tuesday searching for evidence a tornado actually touched down near Prospect during the region’s May 4 thunderstorm. The final verdict: There probably wasn’t a tornado. Crews were looking ...
Jackson County, Ore. – NBC5 News is following up on a weather-related story we brought you late last week. The local National Weather Service Office said it’s still not sure whether a tornado touched down near Prospect. Crews went to ...
Union Creek, Ore. — A standard golf ball is normally just over an inch-and-a-half in diameter, which is about the size of the hail coming down during Thursday night’s storm. It was hail that size that sent one man running. ...
UPDATE (7:56 p.m.) – Tornado warning downgraded by National Weather Service. There is still a strong storm moving through the area, but NWS says they are no longer seeing that threatening rotation on radar. PROSPECT, Ore. – The National Weather Service ...
Update (02-28-17 11:25 a.m.) — After a 3-day-old calf was found dead near Prospect, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials confirmed it was killed by a wolf. According to ODFW, a ranch employee found the remains of the calf ...
Prospect, Ore.- Jackson County Search and Rescue teams saved a family stuck in the snow near Prospect over the weekend. The family was driving on a forest service road when their vehicle got stuck. One of the family members hiked ...
Jackson County’s new sheriff wants to send more deputies into rural areas. Among Sam’s Valley, Applegate, Prospect, Wimer and Ruch, Butte Falls is one of the places where the sheriff’s office plans to expand patrols. Residents in the area say ...
Jackson County, Ore. – The National Weather Service office in Medford has issued a flood watch for a portion of southwest Oregon including most of Jackson County. The watch includes the cities of Medford, Ashland, Butte Falls, Prospect, Rogue River ...
Update (07/05 5:20 p.m.) — Police have identified the man who died after a rollover crash outside of Prospect as 54-year-old Eagle Point resident Richard Kelvin Johnson. Prospect, Ore. — A man is dead after police say he crashed his ...