Roseburg

Adapt expects to complete the $20 million first phase in late 2027, with additional facilities for families and youths planned later.

Douglas Fast Net's work is mostly funded by a federal grant and focuses on remote areas where few, if any, internet options existed before.

In an effort to address the city's longstanding homelessness crisis, Roseburg will look at possible urban campgrounds on city-owned parking lots downtown.

Supporters said the changes would improve oversight, while opponents argued they would create new obstacles without solving the city's broader homelessness challenges.

Participants can lower housing costs through shared living arrangements, with background checks, financial coaching and optional task exchanges built into the program.

The $400,000 grant will help NeighborWorks Umpqua provide needed repairs for low-income homeowners across Douglas County.

Changes are coming to local news in Douglas County as newspapers across the country struggle to stay in business while serving their communities.

This program is especially needed given a workforce shortage in the health care industry.

A Roseburg organization that helps children who have been assaulted — the only one of its kind in the rural county — is pausing services amid a budget shortfall.

Unhoused adults are at least three and a half times more likely to die than the general population. Many groups that work with homeless people hold services around the winter solstice to highlight the dangers of homelessness and to remember those who passed away during the year.

An investigation by the Oregon Government Ethics Commission into the former CEO of a social services nonprofit serving Josephine and Douglas Counties was dismissed on Friday.

Three camps are owned and operated not by the city, but by Elk Island Trading Group, a landowner that flips blighted real estate.