Gold Hill News

What's new in southern Oregon: A remarkably even growing season, marked by warm, rainless days and cool evenings resulted in a 2009 harvest that let vintners decide for themselves when to pull out the shears.

By Andrea Calcagno A November 17, 2009 A GOLD HILL, Ore. - The city of Gold Hill will no longer support the preschool or after school programs at Patrick Elementary School.

A youth center four years in the making could provide teens a place to ring in the coming New Year if a final fundraising push is successful.

With the city set to discontinue funding of the community's only after-school child-care program by year's end, parents are hoping other sponsors will keep the doors open for their children.

A single-vehicle crash at about 7:15 PM Thursday killed the vehicle's driver, the Jackson County Sheriff's office reported Friday morning.

South Stage Cellars of Jacksonville is a wine-tasting room with a difference. It showcases wines made by several Oregon wineries using grapes grown by Don and Traute Moore of Talent.

The indictments unsealed in U.S. District Court in Medford allege 27-year-old Ismael Anaya of Medford ran the operation until last June, when he was stopped by state police and found with $13,000, then turned the job over to 33-year-old Eliot Delavirgen of White City.

Editor's note: This is the last in a six-day series on the 100-year history of the Mail Tribune.

Waking in a sleeping bag to a bone-drenching rain on the fifth day of a nine-day raft trip down the Rogue River, Sam Jackson and his two childhood pals wondered whether this adventure would match what it looked like on paper.

MEDFORD - A federal judge has convicted an Oregon man of illegal mining while digging for gold on U.S. Forest Service land.

The arrest of a Gold Hillman on charges of illegal mining last month and a recent announcement by Gov.

It took more than 20 years to get rid of the Savage Rapids Dam on the Rogue River even after it became clear that the squat concrete structure did far more harm than good.

For decades, the Rogue River has flowed at thousands of cubic feet per second as it quietly slipped between Gold Hill and Grants Pass.

SWAT teams joined forces with 160 federal and state law-enforcement officers early Sunday to break up a massive heroin ring centered in Jackson County that led to the arrest of 22 suspects.

A nearly two-year federal, state and local investigation into a heroin distribution ring came to a head this weekend with the arrests of 22 people in Southern Oregon, Medford police said.

Meford Police say 22 people are behind bars after a nearly 2 year long investigation targeted a large Heroin drug trafficking organization centered in the Rogue Valley.

In a tumbledown building next to the Gold Hill Christian Center, waiting at the once-a-week emergency food pantry, Dixie Cornelius really wants to talk about the family and kids living near her, who've recently lost both job and car.

An Oregon construction firm that already has two Rogue River dam removals under its belt has won the contract to study and possibly remove the 105-year-old Gold Ray Dam, opening 157 miles of free-flowing Rogue from Lost Creek Lake to the sea.

KDRV Staff A September 29, 2009 A GOLD HILL, Ore. - An Oregon contractor has signed a notice of intent to remove the Rogue River's Gold Ray Dam.

A Medford filmmaker is in Jacksonville today to film part of a show about brothers who come to Oregon to look for Bigfoot.