Josephine County News

Jackson County's fair is one of the state's earliest, so it marks the beginning of the fair entertainment season.

The Josephine County Board of Commissioners held a public hearing last night regarding a proposal for the formation of the Mid-Rogue Rural Fire Protection District.

Last night, Josephine County Sheriff's deputies arrested a woman at the Knights Inn Motel, located at the 100 block of Southeast Seventh Street in Grants Pass.

The Josephine County Board of Commissioners will hold its weekly business session at 6 o'clock tomorrow night.

Is it possible that one of Oregon's 36 counties could disappear? And if so, would anyone step in to provide basic services to its residents? The answer to the first question, according to many in and out of ...

The reward offered for information that leads to an arrest and conviction related to the Glendale area elk poaching investigations has increased to over $10,000 following additional donations from the Oregon ...

Police are looking for a serial poacher or poachers who have illegally killed and left to rot at least seven Roosevelt elk in the Glendale area over the past eight months.

Today, there have been several news stories on Oregon's timber harvest last year.

Wolf Creek Park in Josephine County is open again after being shut down two months ago due to vandalism.

Earmark requests from Jackson and Josephine county jurisdictions will be reviewed and selected at the next Rogue Valley Area Commission on Transportation meeting, scheduled from 9 to 11 a.m. tomorrow.

When Ernie Singer first saw the 80 acres straddling Wolf Creek a decade ago, he figured he found a gold mine, and he had.

It was only a matter of time before someone used the funding crisis facing Oregon timber counties as a political weapon.

Oregon justice officials are determining whether the secretary of state has the authority to prevent Jeff Duyck from running as the Republican nominee for House District 29 in November.

Sad News from Oregon : Numerous unsuccessful pleas for money to reopen county libraries marked a 50-minute public hearing on the Josephine County 2008-09 fiscal year budget.

Curry County Commissioners met Friday June 27, to approve the 2008-2009 fiscal year budget.

The number of concealed weapons permits is up as the Josephine County Sheriff's Office is forced to cut patrols.

Josephine county leaders work through what one commissioner calls a "funding crisis" as they decide which services to fund and which to cut in the coming year.

Budget cuts effective Tuesday will reduce the number of allowed Josephine County sheriff's deputies to 16, compared with 22 now and 33 six years ago.

Counties hard-hit by the loss of federal timber payments should consider raising local taxes while the state presses Congress for a renewal and looks for other long-term solutions, a task force told the ...

Josephine County is taking steps to put a property tax measure on next November's ballot.