Jackson County News

The Japanese Association of Southern Oregon will host its third annual fundraising event benefitting the victims of the Fukushima earthquake.

The 73-year-old's rental mobile home on Griffin Creek Road burned to the ground along with a small two-story barn adjacent to his home, but "there is a big fish in my cooler," he said.

Dorothy Martin didn't know what to expect when she stuffed some of her most prized family heirlooms into a grocery bag Saturday and headed to the Medford Armory to have them appraised.

If you are preparing to run the Pear Blossom race in April, a visit to the Rogue Valley Family YMCA next Saturday might be the boost that puts you over the top.

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

Rogue Valley drivers looking for a straight shot between White City and Phoenix likely will have the option down the road.

The bottom dropped out of the Sid M. Nichols $1900 robbery Friday afternoon with a dull and sickening thud.

A Central Point woman charged with embezzling more than $175,000 from her former employer was found guilty of several theft charges today in Jackson County Circuit Court.

A Medford man arrested last year after selling sexual encounters between paying strangers and women he recruited was sentenced Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court to more than a year in prison.

Make no mistake about it, the economic role once held by the wood products industry in Jackson County now squarely rests on the shoulders of health care.

A new study by the Oregon Employment Department projects Jackson and Josephine counties will see 13 percent job growth during a 10-year period ending in 2022, adding 13,000 jobs.

A local ban on genetically modified crops could cost Jackson County more than $200,000 a year to enforce, according to a report the county commissioners asked for.

Sid M. Nichols, former proprietor of a grocery store at North Front Street, cashed a check for $1,900.95 at the Jackson County bank Thursday afternoon given by Ulrich and Ryan in payment for his stock and fixtures.

ASouthern Oregon pain management doctor at risk of losing his license for allegedly overprescribing opiates to high-risk patients said narcotics are under a larger, more critical microscope than they were 15 years ago.

A car crash Sunday near the intersection of North Foothill and Coker Butte roads left a 26-year-old woman dead after she lost control of her Subaru and veered into an oncoming pickup truck, authorities said.

Ashland has received two business license applications for medical marijuana dispensaries in the days since a city ordinance allowing the dispensaries went into effect.

The sheriff's department, Medford police, Jackson County Health and Human Services and Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center will discuss the issue 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, at the Smullin Education Center on the Rogue Regional Medical Center campus, 2825 E. Barnett Road, Medford.

On Tuesday, the last day to file for the primary, four Republicans had filed to run for the two open seats but no Democrats.

The Oregon University Extension Service helps Southern Oregon residents and fire agencies get ready for the summer fire season with a new Citizen Fire Academy.

Oregon State Police investigators probe a freeway shooting east of The Dalles last summer.