Klamath County

Former Fire Chief Christine Friend was terminated by the Klamath County Fire District 3 board of directors on Aug. 15 due to budget shortfalls and inappropriate use of grant funds, according to Board President Dan Hudson.

This week staff at a Klamath Falls community mental health program asked county commissioners to help them find insurance.

Staff at Klamath Health Partnership say the nonprofit is at risk of losing crucial federal funding. The community health center’s leadership is blaming their board of directors for the crisis.

It wraps up a public dispute involving the sheriff’s alleged beneficial treatment of his two sons who work in the same department.

Sheriff Chris Kaber hired the lawyer to provide a second opinion in a disagreement over whether he should be allowed to work with his two sons in the same department.

While the Klamath County sheriff is under investigation for a possible ethics violation, his son is threatening to sue the county for being denied the chance at a promotion at the sheriff’s department.

A standoff between the Klamath County sheriff and commissioners won’t end in the firing of the sheriff’s sons, for now. County commissioners have suspended an ultimatum that was triggered by an ethics complaint.

Klamath County Sheriff Chris Kaber and his two sons, Ryan and Erick, will no longer be able to work together, after county commissioners say he broke an agreement to follow ethics laws.

The Oregon governor has invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act for the Golden Fire east of Klamath Falls.

Some Klamath County library programming has ended following complaints about a social justice book club that featured the book, “No More Police: A Case for Abolition.”