The Grants Pass City Council could potentially adopt raises for department heads and other nonunion city staff as recommended by a task force, but with 10% lower salaries than the task force’s proposal.

The goal would be to better align city government worker pay with the pay of workers with similar jobs in other Southern Oregon towns.

The young Cavers are growing up in a hurry.

With four freshmen playing significant minutes and their sophomore star Millie Lathen lighting up the scoreboard, Grants Pass cruised by Roseburg 68-52 for an important Southwest Conference girls’ basketball win Tuesday at Heater-Newman Memorial Gymnasium.

A Roseburg-based health care provider with a location in Grants Pass announced on Tuesday a data breach.

Adapt Integrated Health Care said TriZetto, a third-party company that works with Adapt’s electronic medical record system provider OCHIN, experienced the records breach.

Adapt offers health services including primary care, mental health care and addiction treatment in Douglas and Josephine counties as well as the south coast.

Concert band plans winter program

The Southern Oregon Concert Band hopes to brighten up your January with a concert of fun and festive music.

The program, “Winter Reveries,” features an eclectic repertoire, from yuletide pieces to music from 1920s New York evocative of flappers and speakeasies, Gaelic and Irish tunes to music from the Disney film “Fantasia.”

The concert is at 7 p.m. Thursday at Oakdale Middle School, 815 S. Oakdale in Medford.