Jackson County News

Southern Oregon Education Service District officials aren't sure whether recruiters are just getting better at identifying migrant students or more migrant students are passing through the area, but either way, the number of those students has skyrocketed in recent years.

The National Weather Service reported a fire weather watch is in effect starting at 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Vehicle lanes on Highway 99 from south Medford to Phoenix would be narrowed to allow for bike lanes under a draft corridor plan that the Oregon Department of Transportation will explain at a Thursday open house in Talent.

The forest fire at Humbug Creek in the Applegate section, reported to be under control yesterday, is still raging and is being fought by a large gang of fire fighters under the direction of the Jackson County Fire Patrol association and the forestry services.

No details were immediately available about the crash, which occurred near milepost nine in Jackson County.

The only thing that could keep 6-year-old Dahlia Hugo away from the carousel, roller coaster and tilt-a-whirl at the Jackson County Fair on Saturday was a ride on Bubbles the dromedary camel.

A spark-throwing combine harvester caught fire and blackened about 4 acres of a dry hayfield while threatening several homes near the corner of Corona Avenue and Steelhead Run Drive, Thursday evening.

A Jackson County sheriff's candidate who was under investigation by the Oregon Department of Justice for alleged illegal solicitation of campaign funds in the weeks leading up to the May primary was fired from the department this week.

Country singer Mark Chesnutt has put the soul back in country music with 14 No. 1 hits, 23 top 10 singles, four platinum-selling records and five gold-selling records.

The Oregon Department of Transportation will hold an open house to showcase pending updates to sections of Highway 99 between Medford and Talent from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 24, at the Jackson County Fire District No.

Ashland hotelier Doug Neuman got himself in a bit of trouble when he impulsively purchased the 1,120-acre Circle of Teran Ranch just outside Ashland for $1.525 million.

IO9 has a Wednesday story about a blanket ban on GMO crops that has been imposed on the big island of Hawaii .

Tuesday's soaring temperatures triggered a heat advisory for Jackson and Josephine counties that is expected to remain in effect until 10 tonight.

A Klamath Falls man who police believe was a part a large criminal enterprise with ties to Jackson County was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison on firearm and drug charges.

Five-time Grammy Award-winning country music singer Wynonna Judd and her band will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, in the Lithia Amphitheatre at the Jackson County Fair in Central Point.

Medford City Manager Eric Swanson on Monday asked the business community to push for the development of a welcome center and rest area planned near Interstate 5 south of Ashland.

With the Jackson County Fair opening on what's predicted to be the hottest day of the year, fairgoers are advised to take a few extra precautions.

Police are searching for a diabetic White City man who disappeared Friday without his medications after a trip to an auto parts store, authorities said.

A newly formed library board has selected Medford lawyer Mark Bartholomew to represent it and help negotiate a more-than-$8 million contract with Jackson County.

Sheriff's deputies and search and rescue workers are looking for a missing Shady Cove man who wandered away from his family's campsite on July 11, but was spotted near Trail early this morning.