Lifestyle

This past week, as I volunteered some hours at the Oregon State University Master Gardener Plant Clinic at the Southern Oregon Research and Extension...

Carpet and pad prices have steadily increased about 12 times in 24 months. Rubber and foam pads still require petroleum for their creation.

Shower curtain, or glass shower door? Which is better?

SIP panels are among the green technology you can see at the upcoming Oregon Green Expo.

Are you familiar with the concept "illness as metaphor?" As illustration, if your neck hurts, you might ask yourself, "Is there someone in my life...

There's no end to the combinations of vegetables, fruits and chilies that can make a great salsa.

A patient who comes to Marie Steinmetz with clogged sinuses might be in for a surprise.

What motivates your "best self?"

All the pink, frilly and sparkly — from the princess dresses to the four-foot-high pink castle in the playroom — isn't necessarily what...

The National Gardening Association has lots of ideas for getting kids interested in gardening at its Web site, www.kidsgardening.org.

TODAY

All the students in one first-grade classroom at Talent Elementary School caught a bug this year, though not the kind that kept them home from school.

The fresh air and exercise that campers and backpackers enjoy is a boon for the body.

The Outdoor Eating Season is in full swing.

Don't let the fast-food chains hold a monopoly on America's hamburger culture. A great burger is worth slowing down for.

Quady North Winery of the Applegate Valley has won a major regional award.

Southern Oregon windsurfing and kite-boarding fans needn't travel all the way to the Columbia Gorge to find first-rate playgrounds.

ASHLAND — Luke Amuchastegui can't help but recognize the yin and yang of the yellow perch in Emigrant Lake.

Black-crowned Night Heron

PROSPECT — Two-dozen members of the Rogue Valley Chapter of the Oregon Hunters Association spent Saturday erecting a relatively harmless yet...

MEDFORD — For those who would like to go to church on Easter Sunday but would prefer a more personal experience, without the customary singing...

Leaders of several faiths are gathering Saturday in Medford to protest the persecution of members of the Bahai Faith under the Iranian government and...

ASHLAND — A federal judge Thursday confirmed the right of worshippers to drink hallucinogenic tea during services at an Ashland church.

ASHLAND — Life is a journey and, as Rabbi David Zaslow writes in his new book about the Jews' exodus from Egypt and its 42 stopping places, the...

"Why did Chief Paulina hate the whites?" asks a 1966 Portland newspaper article, as if being forced to a reservation and surrendering claim to almost...

The posse was closing in and the boys were at the edge of a cliff.

"The sun also shines on the wicked.

It wasn't the last time Fred Tice pulled on the ribbons, but it was close.