New playgrounds are sprouting up across Josephine and Jackson counties as schools and parks departments build new ones or replace old equipment.

Medford is hiring a candidate who didn’t get the top job of city manager to become the city’s second deputy city manager.

Grants Pass Police Department

President Trump and his multi-millionaire or billionaires want to control every aspect in our government and reap the benefits. Trump has managed to increase the federal deficit by nearly $4 trillion in less than two years. Gas prices are up, food prices are up, electricity is up and so much more at our expense, while he gives huge amounts of money to ICE and the war to our armed forces. That’s billions.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Kevin Peer will present an evening of films and behind-the-scenes stories next weekend in Grants Pass as a fundraiser for the Williams Community Forest Project.

Pumpkins await their fate as a carved Halloween creation or perhaps popped into a pie.

Charles Douglas Oudin “Doug” was born in Whittier, Calif. on February 5, 1946. He passed on October 11, 2026, at USC Keck Medical Center. He was 80 years old. Doug had been struggling with Myelofibrosis for nearly 20 years. More recently he was diagnosed as needing cardiac surgery; a triple bypass and an aortic valve replacement. These competing conditions did not allow for a successful recovery.

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MEDFORD — Chelsea Shaw’s approach to business can be summed up by the six motivational black-and-white banners that hang around her new 10,000-square-foot gymnastics and tumbling gym: Character. Resilience. Excellence. Discipline. Inspire. Passion.

ASANTE THREE RIVERS MEDICAL CENTER

When you look online or watch television, you are bombarded with products promising to be “anti-aging.”

Especially if you like to bake your own pumpkins — now in season and available at many stores and farm stands — it’s the perfect time for some pumpkin recipes.

Vacation Bible school sessions are underway:

With temperatures cooling and rain falling in the Rogue Valley, it seems like soup weather has arrived. Read More »