From our archives

• Popular Upper Rogue sites to close for upkeep - 5/21/2012
  

  Southern Oregon visitors taking in the natural wonders of the far Upper Rogue River will see their "A" tour altered this summer as the U.S.

• Opinions of Rogue River users sought - 5/14/2012
  

  A coalition of public landowners is reaching out to the boating and fishing public as they move forward on a plan to manage public-access points...

• River search ends - 5/5/2012
  

  UNION CREEK — After a night of searching for a man who slipped and fell Thursday into fast-moving rapids near the Rogue River Gorge,...

• Impaired Waters - 3/17/2012
  

  Three Medford creeks — Larson, Lone Pine and Baby Bear — will join 1,000 other Oregon streams that federal environmental officials...

• Medford makes the White House - 3/9/2012
  

  The Rogue River's salmon runs and a project meant to improve them received some unique face time last Friday from President Obama, who reaffirmed the...

• Fish-finding mission - 3/5/2012
  

  ASHLAND — Tom Ziemba was never quite sure what lurked in the gurgling stream behind the back fence of his Ashland home.

• Reservoirs might not fill without more rain - 2/18/2012
  

  Despite fresh rain and the lowest winter releases possible into the Rogue and Applegate rivers, federal water managers appear to be fighting a losing...

• New form of idiocy surfaces on the Rogue - 2/17/2012
  

  While on driftboat patrol along the Rogue River downstream of Grants Pass, Oregon State Police Senior Trooper Jeff Thompson stumbled upon fresh...

• One Final Tie - 2/10/2012
  

  TRAIL — Rarely a week goes by when Mike Fillis doesn't drop into Pat's Hand-Tied Flies for a little gear and shop-talk about what's happening...

• Oregon Wild sues to secure Rogue water for coho salmon - 2/8/2012
  

  A conservation group filed suit Tuesday to force the federal government to operate irrigation canals and reservoirs in the Upper Rogue River basin in...

• Truck fishin' - 2/3/2012
  

  GALICE — John Bettencourt vividly remembers the day seven years ago when he learned that the best place to catch a winter steelhead on the...

• Steelhead freeway opened early this year - 1/27/2012
  

  TRAIL — When Cole Rivers Hatchery Assistant Manager Dave Pease went for a short stroll Tuesday on the hatchery grounds, he discovered that...