The Medford City Council has agreed to pay contractors $368,000 to restripe a portion of Main Street, the final procedural step in a decision that has generated months of controversy.

Try as I might, I couldn’t restrain the juvenile jokester in me when Earl Swift called last week from his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

Grants Pass Police Department

Robert Tabb (Maly) Littlefield, age 82, of Merlin, Oregon, passed away peacefully on August 25, 2026. He was born on July 3, 1944 in Tulare, Calif., to Otto and June Maly.

Josephine County teens ages 14-17 are invited to share their creativity in a teen writing and art contest organized by the Rogue Writers Collective.

The sky is falling. If higher education goes away, Oregon becomes a Third World country. Southern Oregon University is the only four-year public institution on the I-5 corridor between Eugene and Sacramento. If all we have to guide us is AI (artificial intelligence) we have no autonomy, no democracy, no morality, no future. Sure, we would have information, but information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, and without wisdom there is no competent leadership.

In response to Charles S. Chase (Letters, Sept. 1), if there’s one problem we don’t have in this country, it’s people using too much healthcare. To the contrary, far too many Americans simply can’t afford regular healthcare and end up with problems so severe that it takes costly intervention to deal with them.

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Though Wingstop serves chicken, chicken and more chicken, it’s not the tender Tyson Foods meat that sets the restaurant apart.

ASANTE ROGUE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Late summer brings on the fruit — from peaches and plums to pears and apples. And many of the berry varieties as well.

ASANTE THREE RIVERS MEDICAL CENTER

Mighty. Majestic. Sturdy. Strong. All words used to describe the tree species commonly referred to as "oak."

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 »