Jackson County News

Editor's note: Light One Candle is an annual series sponsored by the Mail Tribune that focuses on an individual, group or agency that could use a helping hand during the holiday season.

The 1851 Jacksonville gold rush spurred a population boom that defined the future of Southern Oregon, historian Jeff LaLande will explain in a talk Friday in Ashland Enterprises such as the Sterling Mine outside of Jacksonville operated into the 20th century.

The California Department of Fish and Game reports that OR-7's GPS-transmitting collar showed he crossed the border into northern Siskiyou County briefly Saturday, then returned to Oregon.

Southern Oregon vintners expect some damage from the recent cold snap, but they'll have to wait a bit to learn the extent.

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A man a ccused of trying to bomb the Jackson County prosecutor's office to avoid being sentenced on a burglary charge the next day has a trial date on that charge.

The community band, directed by Martin Behnke, will present its annual Holiday Prism Concert, a celebration of music, movement and light featuring sacred and secular holiday music.

Jerry Newton McDonald, 47, of the 100 block of West Jackson Street, Medford. Medford police arrested McDonald Saturday on charges of second-degree burglary, failure to register as a sex offender and suspicion of being a fugitive from Montana.

While walking past my collection of harvested winter squash the other day, I noticed that one of them had a large spot near the stem that looked different.

Editor's note: Light One Candle is an annual series sponsored by the Mail Tribune that focuses on an individual, group or agency that could use a helping hand during the holiday season.

Do you know of any organizations or agencies in the Rogue Valley that will accept donations of live trees and plant them somewhere, like in a park? I would like to consider buying a live tree for the holidays this year, but I don't own the property I live on, so I have nowhere to plant it afterward.

Jackson County health inspectors evaluated 108 restaurants in November. All passed their semiannual inspections, and 43 received perfect scores of 100.

As of 4:30 p.m. today 100 vehicle crashes had been reported on state highways in Jackson and Josephine counties, according to an official from the Oregon Department of Transportation.

Local contractors and architects don't want to be cut out of the bidding on $32 million in new police and fire buildings in Medford.

Rogue Valley Walkers Saturday, Dec. 7: 10K walk in Grants Pass starts at 10 a.m. Registration is at 9:45 at Ray's Food Place on 7th Avenue.

Meteorologists with the National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch that will be in effect tonight through Friday evening.

A man who blasted a round from a 12-gauge, sawed-off shotgun through a trailer window at his older brother was sentenced Wednesday to 60 days in jail.

Public hearings are all that stand between proposals to create tax districts to fund Jackson County libraries and the Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center and the May 2014 ballot.

If someone calls claiming to be a deputy from the Jackson County Sheriff's Department demanding payment on a case, the real police say to just hang up the phone.

The family of an 18-year-old man who was shot and killed in 2012 after brandishing a knife at Medford police officers is suing the city of Medford for $2 million, according to a wrongful death complaint filed in Jackson County Circuit Court.