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Published April 9, 2021 at 10:05 AM PDT April Ehrlich/JPR A temporary camp set up in Hawthorne Park in Medford after the Almeda Drive Fire. Just a short drive up Interstate Five through Medford yields a view of a large number of unofficial campgrounds and tents. And the Medford City Council recently decided to crack down. The council met in special session to pass an ordinance banning camping along the Bear Creek Greenway during fire season, but the ordinance goes much further, layi...

Note: This story contains images of a recently deceased person. A couple of stray dogs were running loose in the parking lot of the Linn County fairgrounds just after 8 a.m. on Oct. 23, 2019, and Gerry Morris, a community service officer (CSO) with the Albany Police Department in Oregon, was on his way to help round them up. Morris turned onto a street that snakes past the blank-looking backs of stores and homes wedged next to railroad tracks. He noticed a beat-up silver Nissan Sentra stranded...

Originally published on January 26, 2021 6:08 pm Update, Tuesday 5 PM: Highway managers put chain requirements into effect on portions of Interstate Five on both sides of the state line, north of Grants Pass and in the Dunsmuir/Mount Shasta area. In addition, some chain requirements went into effect on U.S. 199 over Hayes Hill, between Grants Pass and Selma. The National Weather Service in Medford warned of Extremely Dangerous Travel (NWS italics) between 6 PM Tuesday and 1 AM Wednesday in ...

Cold air and moist air will meet over the region Tuesday and Wednesday, with significant snowfall expected.

Shut down a stretch of pacific coast highway as parts of southern california get hit with heavy rains as expected, and also causing a plane to skid off of our runway in burbank. in our west coast news hub. >> its been raining here for about 30 hours, shep. it is a mess all over southern california. it was up the pacific coast highway just north of pepperdine university, and it shut down in both directions all the way up to the ventura/los angeles county line. there is mud on the road, but it is ...

Of major california freeway has nearly tripled in size just weeks after a nearby blaze left neighborhoods and rooms and killed eight people. the fire that erupted wednesday afternoon and devour timber and brush on both sides of interstate five near the oregon state line has expanded to 23 square miles prompting mandatory evacuations. i could be a smoky san francisco. that is tonights live look. "special report." , well be right back. ♪ to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. ...

He probably planted opium poppies along interstate five. >> martha: he that throwback. >> compared to what is always a question. so if you live in a state where jerry brown is considered sensibit tells you, it looks like gavin n the former mayor of san francisco, is going to get it. also pretty interesting, the same species of protech liberal will be running the state. i dont see anybody, and i talked to people in california a lot, who is concerned about the death of the states middle-clas middl...

Portland. you can take a look at the scene now. train cars still in the middle of interstate five. cranes brought in to remove those cars. we dont know yet how long it will be before the interstate is open. in the meantime, people who survived this disaster are telling some truly harrowing stories. >> i heard the sound first. and then felt instability and i thought we derailed. we derailed. we came off the rails, i could tell. >> we start to lean and your body naturally understands this isnt nor...

The sheriff is now speaking, i am being told? lets listen. >> d.o.t. and other law enforcement agencies, we are asking people to please stay off of i-5 if you dont need to be here. this is obviously going to take all day if not a couple of days to get this cleared and investigated. traffic is still able to get through northbound i-5 and right now we are providing any assistance amtrak is asking of us. we are providing resources or escorting supplies and resources to the team. >> im not sure if y...

People on that train described in some instances a feeling of going downhill, everybody has cell phones and so we can get reports from inside that train as long as people -- we know there are casualties and all of this. the train derailed off of part of that line and landed on interstate five southbound and came to rest. a part of that train as you can see is still dangling. casualties can mean injury or death or both, we dont know yet but we know the number of people on that train now confirmed...