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Growing shade-loving plants in Southern Oregon is a luxury. A luxury provided by the widespread branches of deciduous trees for the most part.

October is one of my favorite months because, in my opinion, it is the best month for transplanting evergreen trees and shrubs.

Just when you thought it was safe to relax and not worry about the lawn, a new, or — in some cases continued — threat rears its tiny...

Gardening, like most pursuits, goes through periods of fashion and fads.

Clent Manich's new diet likely sounds familiar to anyone who's tried to lose weight: Eat mostly fruits and vegetables and replace one or more meal...

I had a birthday recently. My husband gave me a sock tree.

The words "interval training" can strike fear in the hearts of even the most athletic men and women.

This recipe, submitted by Janelle E. Davidson of Ashland, makes a cheesy tasting soup that is cholesterol free.

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A vegetarian vampire with a sweet tooth and a large-mouthed creature with a big appetite and his own eating stool are among the playful and ghoulish...

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A monthly feature which uses a popular movie and books as a basis for activities the whole family can do together

Amid a hot trend toward preserving food, home cooks are giving as much thought to freezing as to canning.

I call it the "la-dee-da factor" — something we say when faced with a food that's achieved a loftier status than other mere mortal forms of...

Just trust us and try this one.

When Beckie Elgin steps into Case Coffee Co., she can count on a latte made with just the right hint of chocolate, her special "light mocha.

Hoping to avoid crowds and bent on enjoying the great outdoors, Cory Crebbin saw nowhere to go but up.

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The rush is already on for the annual waterfowl hunting permits at the Columbia River's Sauvie Island.

By Roger Tory Peterson

JACKSONVILLE — Members of St.

Madonna is on Jennifer Zablocki's iPod. So is "The Madonna.

The World Mission Conference, a conclave of some of the American Baptist Church's leading missionaries, is expected to attract some 500 people to...

CENTRAL POINT — After quietly serving the local community for 100 years, the First Presbyterian Church in Central Point will celebrate its...

Last week, we left two 12-year-old boys running for their lives from a 72-ton locomotive on a railroad trestle in California.

"Any of you guys know when the next train is due?" asks an apprehensive Vern, the shortest of four 12-year-old friends working up enough courage to...

Lucy did it. And you can, too — stomp grapes, that is.

Just before the Great Depression put the brakes on highway travel, Jackson County was filling up with gas stations, auto camps and resorts.