Gold Hill News

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.

By Ron Brown A September 21, 2009 A NEAR CENTRAL POINT, Ore. - One of the most dangerous stretches of road in Southern Oregon is about to get an overhaul.

The name of a Gold Hill man killed in a wreck early Monday morning has been released by the Jackson County Sheriff's Department.

Police responded to a wreck at 4:13 AM Monday and found the driver deceased and a passenger suffering minor injuries.

A single-car crash on Lampman Road outside Gold Hill killed a man and left a woman with minor injuries early this morning, the Jackson County Sheriff's Department reported.

Jason Myrick, former Brookings resident and employee at the Brookings U.S. Post Office, is battling for his life in a San Francisco hospital and was expected to have a heart transplant Tuesday night or today, a family member said.

Jason Myrick, former assistant post master for the Brookings U.S. Post Office, was on life support Friday in a San Francisco hospital and not expected to live, according to a family member.