Grants Pass News

In this April 24, 2013 photo, retired logger Jim Ford stands in his shop in Grants Pass, Ore.

Bear Camp Road between Grants Pass and Agness, near the southern Oregon Coast, has reopened a week earlier than usual because the snow melted early.

Three core members - lead guitarist Joe Ginet, keyboard player Erik Vestnys and bassist Ryan Redding - make up State of Jefferson.

Today in Josephine County, Oregon 6 sheriffs' deputies patrol an area with a population of 80,000. Their territory stretches from Grants Pass to the California border.

Alyn Ashleigh Brock was born March 31, 2013, in Grants Pass, Ore. She weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces and measured 19 inches.

A horse driven by W.D. West of Applegate, frightened by a passing automobile, ran away on West Main Street yesterday morning and completely demolished the carriage.

State Rep. Gail Whitsett recently reported on a May 1 informational hearing on the Barry Point fire of 2012 hosted by the senate Committee on Rural Communities and Economic Development.Details of the hearing were provided in her May 8 legislative update.Chairing the hearing was Sen.

Walking into Darrell Hanks' bow-making studio is like walking into a different time, when instruments were painstakingly handmade using techniques passed down by generations of craftsmen.

Authorities say the man who crashed his log truck Monday afternoon south of Roseburg was driving drunk.

Takelma elder Agnes Baker-Pilgrim of Grants Pass sat on the Dalai Lama's interfaith panel and gave the opening prayer for his three-day visit to Oregon last week.

Although the weather was a little cool and drizzly on Sunday, that didn't stop folks from taking advantage of some closed streets to spend time out and about in their community.

Troy Anthony Jones, 42, of the 7100 block of Wagner Creek Road, Talent. Medford police arrested Jones late Saturday on charges of possession of methamphetamine and failure to appear on a theft charge.

Grants Pass Police say they are looking for a man who robbed a Best Western in at gunpoint early Sunday morning.

In Grants Pass last month, officials locked down an elementary school while police searched for a burglar with a stolen rifle.

The rapper will perform Saturday, May 11, at the Historic Ashland Armory, 208 Oak St., Ashland.

"We have ladies come from all over just to stay in the Clark Gable Suite," said Margaret Quist, innkeeper at southern Oregon's Wolf Creek Inn .

Colorful flowers, original art, cold glasses of lemonade, giveaways, crafts for kids, wine tasting, live entertainment, shopping and the promise of blue skies - what's not to love about Art in Bloom? The 13th annual spring festival runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 11, and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 12, in downtown Medford.

The cremated remains of two Civil War soldiers from Indiana have been given a final resting place at Arlington National Cemetery.

Mrs. William Welsh appealed to County Judge F.L. Tou Velle today for protection against her husband, more familiarly known as "Windy Bill," who, she says, has threatened her life.

Klamath Falls, Ore., is visible on the far side of Upper Klamath Lake in this photo taken Tuesday, May 7, 2013.