Jackson County News

Jackson County is considering joining the trap-neuter/spay-return movement to help reduce the high rate of euthanasia among cats at the animal shelter, county officials say.

Jackson County's seasonally adjusted jobless rate slipped under 9 percent in January and neighboring Josephine County stayed below double-digits as well.

Jackson County health inspectors evaluated 80 restaurants in February. All passed their semiannual inspections, and 50 received perfect scores of 100.

A man living on rural Savage Creek Road outside Rogue River faces attempted murder and assault charges after beating a 74-year-old neighbor with a crowbar, police said.

Our 16-year-old granddaughter is living with us. She wants to get a job this summer.

A man arrested for setting at least five fires in vacant west Medford houses was seen videotaping flames at some of the scenes and posted some of them on the Internet, arousing police suspicion last summer, authorities said.

A small fire that started inside a living room wall filled a family's Central Point home with smoke Wednesday afternoon, killing a pair of pet dogs, authorities said.

Last fall Jackson County road crews bladed the side of the road on Highway 238W into the Applegate valley.

Southern Oregon University student Bryan Coghill says smoking marijuana in high school didn't seem to affect his grade-point average, which was the same then as it is today, when he no longer uses.

Professor P.J. O'Gara, who six years ago left the department of agriculture to become pathologist for Jackson county at a salary of $5,000 a year has resigned to become chief in charge of agricultural investigation for the American Smelting and Refining company at a salary of $15,000 a year.

The fight against genetically modified crops in Lane County is in the hands of Circuit Court Judge Charles Carlson, who is expected to rule on whether the Local Food System Ordinance complied with state constitutional requirements.

In Jackson County, 18 applications were filed on Monday for medical marijuana dispensaries, the third-highest number in the state behind Multnomah and Lane counties.

The rapidly expanding credit union, which also has nearly doubled its membership in the past decade, has submitted plans for a two-story, 31,886-square-foot building between its existing 32,000-square foot administrative offices and South Pacific Highway.

The median price for single-family homes in Jackson County barely crept up during a three-month period ending Feb. 28 as fewer sales were registered.

THE MYSTERY of Emily Dickinson's relationship with a Philadelphia pastor comes to life in "The Voice at the Door," a novel by James Sulzer published by Ashland's Fuze Publishing.

Kristin Marie Hals, 33, no known address. Eagle Point police Monday arrested Hals on a charges of felony fourth-degree assault and harassment.

State officials said they received applications for 289 dispensary locations in Oregon, which launched its dispensary registry at 8:30 a.m. Monday.

"Let a joy keep you " reach out your hands and take it as it runs by." These poetic words by Carl Sandburg were beautifully scripted in pen-and-ink calligraphy by my long-deceased mother.

Health care practitioners are also recognizing that they have started many patients on the road to addiction by prescribing opioid pain medication, according to the Opioid Prescribers Group.

There were 248 companies participating in the 21st "100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon" survey, which evaluates the best practices toward creating great places to work.