The Grants Pass City Council approved budgeting $325,000 to cover the costs of running homeless camping sites for a year after balking at authorizing up to $440,000.

Grants Pass is currently providing a camping site in a large field at 755 S.E. J St. where the city hopes to break ground next year on a new water treatment plant.

MEDFORD — A former Southern Oregon University student accused of Oregon's version of a hate crime was ordered on Wednesday to perform 80 hours of community service for vandalizing a Jewish community center in Ashland.

Zachary Ryan Demarest, 19, also was placed on 11 months of unsupervised probation for his guilty plea in Jackson County Circuit Court to a misdemeanor charge of bias crime in the second degree. Read More »

The boys are back in town.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have made their return to Ashland's Oregon Cabaret Theatre.

And what a high-spirited homecoming it is.

"Sherlock Holmes and the Study in Scarlet," which opened Friday and runs through Nov. 3, is OCT Managing Director Rick Robinson's third swing at a Holmes story adaptation.

And once again, he hits it out of the park. Read More »