The ambulance company that serves Josephine County is raising its rates, but most people who use the service locally won’t be affected because of reimbursement limits for government-funded health insurance.

Dave Mathews, operations manager for AMR Josephine County, told the county Board of Commissioners at a meeting Wednesday that the rate increase is needed to offset inflation and pay for higher labor costs.

All of a sudden, Grants Pass is as healthy as it’s been since the season opener, just as the Cavemen begin Southwest Conference football play on Friday.

Grants Pass, ranked No. 5 in the Class 6A coaches poll and No. 3 in the OSAA power rankings, takes on rival North Medford at Spiegelberg Stadium on Friday, a week after senior quarterback Jordan Rossetta made his comeback to lead the Cavemen to a 35-0 win over Sprague.

A drug user who said he shot his fiancée by accident after mistaking her for a mountain lion faces a sentence of 100 months in prison for his guilty plea to a manslaughter charge.

A sentencing date of Thursday next week was set in the case following Monty Ryan Breedlove’s conviction on Monday in Josephine County Circuit Court.

The new exhibition at the Rogue Gallery & Art Center in Medford is not just a showcase for 26 local women artists. It is a community-based art project connecting visual art by women with women’s causes.

“This event is unique. The event itself is a work of art,” says show creator and curator and community-based artist Beca Blake.

The 2026 WomanKind Art Exhibition & Activation opened last week and runs through Oct. 30.