Jackson County News

A series of fires burning in the area of Wagner Creek have prompted an evacuation of properties along a mile-long stretch of Wagner Creek Road between mile markers 11 and 12, a Jackson County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman said.

In 2012, James Bowman allowed Noelle Crombie and I to spend a couple of days touring his High Hopes Farm in Ruch, a rural community in Jackson County.

Medford City Councilors John Michaels and Bob Strosser won't run for re-election in November, opening the door for a new crop of candidates.

A Medford man found guilty of assaulting his on-again, off-again girlfriend and locking her in his garage was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison and admonished to work on his anger issues.

Vinyard joined Asante - the region's largest employer - as president and chief executive officer in 1999.

Cucina Biazzi donates all proceeds from its 8 p.m. dinner seating Thursday, July 31, to Friends of the Animal Shelter.

The search for a man last seen July 10 continues in Jackson County. The sheriff's office released new images of 57-year-old Dwain Hodge captured on a surveillance camera the day before he disappeared.

The search for a man last seen July 10 continues in Jackson County. The sheriff's office released new images of 57-year-old Dwain Hodge captured on a surveillance camera the day before he disappeared.

Haley Renee Keller, 23, of the 500 block of Western Avenue, Medford. Medford police Sunday arrested Keller on charges of possession of heroin and methamphetamine, as well as failing to appear on seven drug and theft charges.

Oregon State Forestry crews late Monday were swarming a 100-acre fire that erupted in the Illinois Valley, the latest in a series of fires that ignited over the weekend.

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.