Grants Pass News

Oregon legislators on Monday continued to work on a bill allowing the imposition of emergency taxes in financially ailing counties struggling to maintain basic law enforcement services.

Nearly two-dozen stagecoaches, covered wagons and buggies were lined up early Saturday morning on a Greensprings mountain meadow at the historic Box R Ranch, ready to roll.

Federal prosecutors are recommending a 25-year prison sentence for a man who admitted to befriending a Grants Pass woman with the intention of sexually abusing her two teenage daughters.

Home Instead Senior Care named Grants Pass resident Virginia Brown as the Oregon winner for its Salute to Senior Service Contest on Sunday.

By JEFF BARNARD Associated Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A panel of experts says forests held in trust for Indian tribes across the nation are woefully underfunded by the federal government.

Rick and Jeri Ruatta moved to Grants Pass from Los Angeles in 1988, just as their oldest daughter was entering junior high school.

I am trying to find the names of Indian Mary's children. I am also very curious about a friendship or blood relationship she must have had with Louvilla Hinman, to whom Mary gave some of the land now known as Indian Mary Park.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Watermasters started telling ranchers in the drought-stricken upper Klamath Basin on Wednesday they have to shut off their irrigation to satisfy the needs of the Klamath Tribes and a federal irrigation project.

Residents of the Rogue Valley can choose between many chain pizza parlors, but three local pizzerias prove that pizza is an art form, not a science.

Residents are invited to a 6 p.m. session in the Phoenix library courtyard today to help city officials screen the town's next city manager.

Authorities say a 51-year-old Grants Pass man drowned over the weekend as he was swimming in a turbulent section of the Rogue River.

Police on Monday arrested a 47-year-old transient who tried to snatch a 5-year-old boy away from his mother on a west Medford corner in what police are calling a rare stranger-to-stranger attempted abduction here.

This May 7, 2013 file photo shows Klamath Falls, Ore., top, on the far side of Upper Klamath Lake.

Here, kids no taller than fully grown tomato plants are patiently waiting their turn to pick sun-ripened vegetables that are growing in planters adjacent to the playground.

With fireworks season only weeks away, the Medford Police Department is gearing up to enforce fireworks laws.

Organic Nation's vodka and gin are available for pouring at Standing Stone Brewery's bar in Ashland.

Although many runners enjoy the solitude of forested trails or roads at dawn, just as many, it seems, draw motivation and strength from running in groups.

Authorities are looking for a missing Grants Pass man who has a life-threatening condition that requires daily medication, Oregon State Police reported.

Britt Festivals' highly anticipated concert season kicks off Saturday, June 15, but before the music begins, Jacksonville will flaunt its charms at the annual Taste of Summer on Saturday, June 8. Third Street will be closed to make room for a beer garden and food booths by Frau Kemmling Schoolhaus Brewhaus, the Mustard Seed Cafe, Back Porch Bar & ... (more)

Soda Mountain Wilderness Council The Soda Mountain Wilderness Council is organizing a series of weekend hikes through June 29 to explore wildlands in and near the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.