Jackson County News

Shady Cove is considering closing its police department and contracting with the county sheriff for law enforcement services.

Not so long ago, years might pass between teen suicides, and more than one in any given year was rare.

The future of jobs in Jackson and Josephine counties, according to the Oregon Employment Department, is in service industries.

A man who barricaded himself inside his Ashland home earlier this month was arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Jackson County Circuit Court on attempted aggravated murder charges for allegedly firing a rifle at two Ashland police officers.

Jackson County residents are using libraries at near pre-closure levels, but limited hours have cut into use of the libraries' computers for job seekers and researchers.

The Jackson County Sheriff's Department continues its investigation in to what detectives described as an unusually violent robbery at a 24-hour restaurant in White City Thursday night.

An English teacher who was denied permission to take her handgun to South Medford High School has lost her appeal to the Oregon Court of Appeals.

A smelly and potentially dangerous problem with failing septic systems in Jackson County soon could be resolved for up to 1,603 property owners in rural areas who might want to hook up to a regional sewer system.

A land-use watchdog group has charged that Jackson County is attempting an end run around its own zoning laws that could clear the way for sprawl in rural areas.

The mother of a Medford soldier injured in Iraq this week says special protective sunglasses saved her son's right eye.

The Medford area has joined the Grants Pass area this morning in restricting the use of woodstoves because of deteriorating air quality.

A Medford man died Thursday night when the 2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser he was driving veered off Old Stage Road.

The vast majority of upstream habitat in and around the Rogue River backwaters of Gold Ray Dam appear not to qualify as wetland habitat, possibly making removal of the 105-year-old dam cheaper for Jackson County.

Medford and Jackson County created fewer new jobs and continued to lose existing jobs during the past year, along with most of Oregon's major population centers.

Ashland fire investigators are seeking the cause of a blaze that damaged a home on Granite Street Wednesday afternoon.

Will Oursler was collecting flies from the family compost pile when he scooped up a creature that researchers had been seeking for months.

Medford police have arrested a 17-year-old suspected gang member on two counts of first-degree assault stemming from a pair of stabbings at a girl's coming-of-age celebration over the weekend.

Medford police have charged the parents of a 4-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself in the foot on Saturday with misdemeanor neglect and reckless endangering charges.

Appeals by legislators and transportation officials failed to sway Jackson County commissioners today as they condemned a $100 million proposal for a Highway 62 bypass as a possible waste of money.

The indictments unsealed in U.S. District Court in Medford allege 27-year-old Ismael Anaya of Medford ran the operation until last June, when he was stopped by state police and found with $13,000, then turned the job over to 33-year-old Eliot Delavirgen of White City.