Jackson County News

There's much to talk about in Ashland-a southern Oregon winter so dry that, for the first time in 50 years, the local ski mountain failed to open, or the fare at this year's Oregon Shakespeare Festival .

Editor's note: Columnist Wm. Willard Greene is on a spirit quest in the Rockies.

Jacob Allen Golden, 20, no known address. Medford Police Monday arrested Golden on charges of possession of methamphetamine, possession of a schedule I controlled substance, third-degree theft and first- and second-degree criminal mischief.

DID YOU FILE YOUR TAXES? If not, you've got until the end of the day when the post office closes.

The postcard's message is brief, written along its edge in fading pencil: "Arrived in Portland at 8 o'clock.

Headlight flashing to warn others of law enforcement in the area isn't against the law, an Oregon judge has ruled.

A registered sex offender has been arrested on suspicion of seeking sexual gratification by bumping against women at grocery and department stores.

Bourne Huddleston said Monday that he plans to testify today in his trial on charges that he killed his wife in 2012 after trying to hire two others to kill her and then initiated another murder-for-hire scheme to kill a witness against him.

When hackers infiltrated the state's website tracking everything from business names to voter registration in February, the political heat intensified to the point Secretary of State Kate Brown dodged lawmakers.

United Way is asking for donations of college T-shirts from throughout the U.S. and beyond as part of its Big Idea, an initiative to ensure that all 1,200 sixth-graders in Jackson County graduate from high school on time in 2020.

Hauling a truckload of logs to a Southern Oregon mill last fall, Chris Hill noticed a sheriff's deputy behind him and flashed his lights to warn a UPS driver coming the other way.

The six-month shuttering of Jackson County's 15 branches in 2007 because of cuts in federal funding is still fresh in her mind.

The state has fined a Deschutes County contractor who failed to pay prevailing wages for work done on Hillside Elementary School in White City.

A late Friday afternoon electrical fire in the kitchen of a second-floor apartment caused $30,000 in damage, but no injuries.

The Washington Post offer's a grim look at how Mexican drug cartels are shifting their business strategies away from marijuana.

The former Central Point police lieutenant who founded and headed the Southern Oregon High-Tech Crimes Task Force faces official misconduct and computer-crime charges alleging he knowingly altered or damaged a police computer or software in 2012.

Alengthy appeals process for medical marijuana businesses has prompted the Medford City Council to explore ways to shorten the process and put more teeth into existing laws.

Two challengers in the race for Jackson County sheriff criticized incumbent Mike Winters for using resources on other counties Thursday during the first of three public forums leading up to the May 20 primary.

A Wednesday night car crash on Siskiyou Boulevard killed a man and put a woman in the hospital with life-threatening injuries, police and fire officials said.

It's one of 20 of Oregon's 36 counties that have never been represented on the front cover, and the Secretary of State's Office hopes to rectify that.