Yearly Archives: 2018

As reported in the Wild Coast Compass, Waldport’s branch of Columbia Bank was robbed at gunpoint on Friday, December 29th at 5:55 pm. The white male perpetrator was about 6 feet tall and weighed...

Just before noon on Friday, December 5th, Officers, and Fire personnel in Grants Pass were dispatched to a reported possible head-on motor vehicle accident on the Grants Pass Parkway near the Parkway Railroad bridge. Upon...

On June 22, 2017, the Oregon State Police Criminal Investigations Division began investigating the death of 22-year old John Reitterer from Crescent City, California. Reitterer was located in a shallow creek off of Illinois...

Early Thursday morning, January 4th at approximately 4:30 am, the Oregon State Police and Washington County Sheriff's office responded to a crash on Highway 26 in Washington County. The initial report was that a...

Applications for 2018-19 scholarships from the Brookings-Harbor Scholarship Foundation are now available at www.bhsfinfo.org. This includes both the competitive scholarships and the automatic GEAR-UP awards for those graduating from BHHS in the Classes of 2014-19. Approximately...

  Since the Wild Coast Compass reported the December 29th armed robbery at the Columbia Bank branch in Waldport, Lincoln County Sheriff's Deputies and Detectives have been investigating all leads, canvassing the area for evidence...

On Wednesday, January 3, at approximately 10:35 AM, Oregon State Troopers from the Gold Beach Worksite and the U.S. Coast Guard responded to a report of a male subject who had been swept off...

On Saturday evening, December 30th, Medford Fire Department received a call from the Badger Run Rehab animal rescue group saying that a hawk, called the Cooper Hawk, was trapped in a chicken-wire fenced in...

On Tuesday afternoon December 2nd, at approximately 4:00 pm, Depoe Bay Firefighters were called to a location just South of Depoe Bay in an area known as Big Whale Cove. The initial call was for...

Jackson County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue (SAR) officials are trying to locate a person who made a report of suspicious circumstances on New Year's Eve. On the afternoon of December 31, 2017, SAR...