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Who drained the pool?

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:20:36 -0400

It seems every decade or two in Medford, a few people would like to make a splash by taking a deep dive into a pool idea, while others prefer the economic safety of dry land.

'Empty' quarter is alive with birds

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:31:43 -0400

It could be a scene out of "The Big Year," the bird-watching comedy with Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson.

The politics of fish and pine trees

Sun, 12 May 2013 01:35:30 -0400

Twenty-five years ago, temperatures already were climbing into the mid-70s as the military transport plane carrying Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush touched down at the Medford-Jackson County Airport (the airport hadn't gone "International" yet).

Owyhee wildernesses — rugged, remote

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:03:41 -0400

BRUNEAU, Idaho — An ocean of grayish-green sagebrush looms from horizon to horizon as you walk the canyon rims of Owyhee wilderness areas.

Shining the light at Trinidad

Sun, 5 May 2013 02:00:30 -0400

From their village on the bluffs above the Pacific, Yurok Indians likely watched Portuguese explorer Sebastian Rodriguez Cerme�o's galleon as it sailed south along the Northern California coast in early November 1595.

Outlaw flavor comes alive at Colorado dude ranch

Sat, 4 May 2013 11:47:54 -0400

CLARK, Colo.

The danger of 'boyish, wild ways'

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:46:43 -0400

The life and times of August Singler, the first law enforcement officer and only sheriff in Jackson County killed in the line of duty, are well-known.

A Washington state park gem: Deception Pass

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:47:35 -0400

OAK HARBOR, Wash. — If you know only the landmark green bridge at Deception Pass State Park, you don't know this park.