Gold Hill News

As a sheriff's deputy monitored passing motorists near the Gold Hill Post Office on Friday, making a handful of traffic stops during the lunch hour, Figaro's manager Phil Xenos surveyed the aftermath of vandalism inflicted on his storefront.

A renegade miner whose outlaw placer operation tore up portions of a Rogue River tributary will spend a year in prison after his second conviction in two years for illegal mining on public lands.

A Gold Hill man was jailed early Monday in Lane County after allegedly breaking into the Gold Hill sewer treatment plant, stealing a vehicle and vandalizing at least one Gold Hill business.

A southern Oregon gold miner has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for illegally mining on a salmon stream.

A lot of attention has been focused this winter on whether there will be enough water for recreation, wildlife and agriculture in our area this year.

Hanby Middle School 8th grader Ariel Rogers, left, and her friend Theresa Fernandez, 7th grade, head off to a basketball game after school Monday.

According to the Mayans, Dec. 21 will be the end of the world as we know it ... and I don't feel fine about that.

According to the Mail Tribune , the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an Oregon sheriff's challenge that U.S. law trumps state law, meaning concealed gun owners who are prescribed medical marijuana will be allowed to keep their licenses.