As the rest of the community begins to return to something approaching “normal,” the situation inside the Jackson County Jail is still stuck in a pandemic time ...
Changes to the Medford Water Commission’s water-pumping policies and rates are a reasonable response to a spike in usage, and should give law enforcement and st...
If rural landowners didn’t get the message last year that illegal cannabis growers were leasing farmland to raise marijuana for the black market, they are on no...
Two reports this week offer a glimpse of where the water situation stands heading into the summer. The news is not great, but it’s not the end of the world eith...
A local conservation organization and Jackson County Fire District 5 teamed up recently to prepare donated land for preservation by removing a house on the prop...
Ballots for the May 17 primary election are beginning to arrive in the mailboxes of registered voters. Exercising the franchise has been remarkably easy in Oreg...
The Bear Creek Greenway represents decades of hard work and dedication by many people to create a bicycle and walking path that now stretches 18 miles along the...
Like a newborn baby just a few weeks old, Medford is poised for a growth spurt. The city is hardly an infant, but the analogy is apt as we emerge from two years...
Jackson County elected officials will likely see their income increase in the next fiscal year — with one exception. The Jackson County Budget Committee has rec...
The saga of the Medford’s Holly Theatre has come full circle in a sense: Its original opening was delayed by the stock market crash of 1929, and its restoration...
The maps of potential attendance boundaries for Medford’s middle schools are out, and they illustrate just how complex a process it is to draw an attendance are...
Medford School District officials are drawing the first new attendance boundaries in more than two decades as the district prepares to open a third middle schoo...
Supporters of opening up Oregon primary elections to nonaffiliated voters are trying to qualify a constitutional amendment for the November ballot that would ac...
A proposal to create a container port at Coos Bay would improve port capacity, benefiting the entire West Coast and giving the Oregon Coast a much-needed econom...
The Medford Urban Renewal District, originally created decades ago in part to address blighted conditions in the city’s Liberty Park neighborhood, is finally ge...
Rogue Valley residents frequently complain that state government doesn’t listen to their concerns — with some justification. Well, one state agency wants to hea...
A year and half after the devastating Almeda fire swept from Ashland to Medford, destroying swaths of Talent and Phoenix along the way, rebuilt businesses are ...
Jackson County Clerk Chris Walker has asked the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office for funding to pay for election equipment and security measures. The request ...
The Medford airport has the opportunity to get a jump on expansion plans thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed by Congress last year. That’s good n...
Addressing the challenge of homelessness can seem overwhelming, a problem so big and so complex that it can’t be solved. But a pioneering program underway here ...
