Jackson County News

A homeless man was wounded and another faces a felony assault charge for allegedly attacking a group of homeless men Sunday over living arrangements on a hill outside of Ashland, authorities said.

Alex Relph eyes a pile of basalt chunks that have sloughed off Pilot Rock over the centuries, creating a cache she'll use in the first planned route to this iconic feature of the Siskiyou Mountains.

So it looks like the county may not allocate to the Jackson County libraries the $800,000 in lottery funds that they would have had prior to approval by voters of the new tax.

Jackson County health inspectors in June evaluated 71 restaurants, all of which passed their semiannual inspections.

Major developers who get tripped up by the bureaucracy at Medford City Hall will find a new friend in high places.

Police arrested a homeless woman Thursday on charges she set as many as four fires around Medford over a 12-hour period.

A Medford man accused of violently attacking his on-again, off-again girlfriend and locking her in his garage was found guilty of assault and kidnapping by a Jackson County jury Friday, the day he also got engaged to another woman.

Ruth Helsley, sexually transmitted disease program manager for the Oregon Health Authority, tells the Grants Pass Daily Courier the reason is unclear.

The Jackson County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a field in White City.

New photos of wolf OR-7's pups show that he and his mate have at least three offspring roaming the woods of eastern Jackson County - and maybe more.

July 23--About 1,200 lightning strikes touched down Tuesday afternoon and evening across Jackson County, starting several wildfires thoughout the region.

The state Elections Division determined today that an initiative measure has qualified for the Nov. 4 statewide ballot.

Tuesday's fierce lightning storm that shot out hundreds of air-to-ground strikes by the evening hours started 29 wildfires in Jackson and Josephine counties.

About 300 lightning strikes have touched down in Jackson County in the last four hours, according to a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Medford.

The latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Jackson County had 2,808 fewer people in the labor force during June than a year earlier.

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.