Gold Hill News

Clifford R. Tracy of Gold Hill was sentenced to a year's probation this illegal mine along Sucker Creek in southwest Oregon.

Pugs and German shepherds happily romped around the popular but smaller Medford dog park Monday after workers moved fencing to make room for construction of a $1.7 million pedestrian bridge over Barnett Road.

The federal Bald Lick timber sale sold without protest last week for more than twice its appraised value.

The federal Bald Lick timber sale in the Applegate Valley, which drew angry protests when it first was offered four years ago, sold quietly with no opposition for more than twice its appraised value.

What's new in southern Oregon: A remarkably even growing season, marked by warm, rainless days and cool evenings resulted in a 2009 harvest that let vintners decide for themselves when to pull out the shears.

By Andrea Calcagno A November 17, 2009 A GOLD HILL, Ore. - The city of Gold Hill will no longer support the preschool or after school programs at Patrick Elementary School.

A youth center four years in the making could provide teens a place to ring in the coming New Year if a final fundraising push is successful.

With the city set to discontinue funding of the community's only after-school child-care program by year's end, parents are hoping other sponsors will keep the doors open for their children.

A single-vehicle crash at about 7:15 PM Thursday killed the vehicle's driver, the Jackson County Sheriff's office reported Friday morning.

South Stage Cellars of Jacksonville is a wine-tasting room with a difference. It showcases wines made by several Oregon wineries using grapes grown by Don and Traute Moore of Talent.

The indictments unsealed in U.S. District Court in Medford allege 27-year-old Ismael Anaya of Medford ran the operation until last June, when he was stopped by state police and found with $13,000, then turned the job over to 33-year-old Eliot Delavirgen of White City.

Editor's note: This is the last in a six-day series on the 100-year history of the Mail Tribune.

Waking in a sleeping bag to a bone-drenching rain on the fifth day of a nine-day raft trip down the Rogue River, Sam Jackson and his two childhood pals wondered whether this adventure would match what it looked like on paper.

MEDFORD - A federal judge has convicted an Oregon man of illegal mining while digging for gold on U.S. Forest Service land.

The arrest of a Gold Hillman on charges of illegal mining last month and a recent announcement by Gov.

It took more than 20 years to get rid of the Savage Rapids Dam on the Rogue River even after it became clear that the squat concrete structure did far more harm than good.

For decades, the Rogue River has flowed at thousands of cubic feet per second as it quietly slipped between Gold Hill and Grants Pass.

SWAT teams joined forces with 160 federal and state law-enforcement officers early Sunday to break up a massive heroin ring centered in Jackson County that led to the arrest of 22 suspects.

A nearly two-year federal, state and local investigation into a heroin distribution ring came to a head this weekend with the arrests of 22 people in Southern Oregon, Medford police said.

Meford Police say 22 people are behind bars after a nearly 2 year long investigation targeted a large Heroin drug trafficking organization centered in the Rogue Valley.