MEDFORD — Perhaps the most contested election in Jackson County this year is the three-way race for Oregon Senate District 3, an election that has seen millions of dollars in support from grassroots efforts and large-scale donors alike.

Senate District 3 covers much of Jackson County, including Medford and Ashland.

Horse trainers are always looking for the ingredients that make a winner.

Trainer Jose Gomez identified the trait that helped his horse — Miss Royal Hawk — win the $82,000 Far West Futurity on Monday at Grants Pass Downs.

“She’s got some anger and she uses it out here,” Gomez said. “She’s a special horse. … She just has that fight in her.”

Firefighters battled a fire at an abandoned Medford hotel building Sunday night that has been the site of past fires and illegal residency by squatters.

The fire drew a two-alarm response to the building known as The Loring at 2250 Biddle Road, with crews knocking the fire down and conducting mop-up, according to the Medford Fire Department.

One person was transported to a hospital.

Photographer Jim Ingraham’s “Colony of Sea Lions” is the Wild Rivers Photography Club’s image of the month for October.

Ingraham took the image in Crescent City, California in February of 2025 on an overcast day, using a Nikon z9 camera with a 70-180 lens and a 2x teleconverter with settings F16 at 1/1000 second and ISO 5000.