Grants Pass News

More than 200 pounds of marijuana were seized in a raid on a growing operation in Southern Oregon that produced far more marijuana than allowed for the medical patients it supplied.

A traffic stop on Interstate-5 south of Ashland leads officers to a large grow operation in Grants Pass.

Three Southern Oregon organizations collected a total of about $83,000 when Meyer Memorial Trust awarded more than $2.3 million to 46 nonprofit organizations last month.

KDRV Staff A November 2, 2009 A GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A Grants Pass man is under arrest, charged with arson after police say he sparked a motel room fire.

A Veteran's support group held a local wreath drive for fallen veterans in Grants Pass Saturday.

Jan Tarantino peers over her summer patio and dock on what used to be 'Savage Lake,' looking down at the Rogue River flowing more than 15 feet below.

The Grants Pass branch of the American Association of University Women is hosting its fifth annual Kitchen Tour from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov.

On October 14, 2009 at approximately 4:37pm, Rogue River Police responded to a report of a citizen following a suspected drunk driver into the city on East Evans Creek Road in the area of the high school.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A new study suggests warming temperatures predicted over the next century could boost tree growth on Northwest forests, but less so at lower elevations where most of the timber is and temperatures are already warm.

Josephine County has declared a state of emergency over the swine flu. The declaration Friday by county commissioners in Grants Pass cited two people dead, 21 in the hospital, and many more sick with the H1N1 virus.

An Oregon National Guard helicopter flew a trauma team from Legacy Emanuel Hospital to Rogue Valley Medical Center in Medford because of a Swine Flu patient.

Associated Press & KDRV Staff A October 15, 2009 A GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski wants to head off recreational gold miners who may be headed to southwestern Oregon since California imposed a ban on using suction dredges in rivers.

A woman who died last week at a Grants Pass hospital has become Josephine County's first confirmed victim of the H1N1 influenza virus.

Josephine County has had its first death from the swine flu. A spokesman for the hospital in Grants Pass says the 41-year-old woman died in the emergency room last week.

The following is a press release from Oregon State Police: GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A 28-year-old Grants Pass man died Monday evening after running into the path of an eastbound vehicle on Highway 238 approximately nine miles east of Grants Pass.

A 28-year old man from Grants Pass man has died after running in front of a car on Oregon 238.

Public health departments and pharmacies across the country are struggling to meet demand for the seasonal flu shot.

Oregon nearly has the biggest classroom sizes in the country. Director of Elementary Educatin Rich Miles says, "Budget cuts are the problem.

Andrea Calcagno & Associated Press A October 14, 2009 A GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced a crop of timber sales for U.S. Bureau of Land Management lands that he says will help keep Oregon mills open while the Obama administration works on a long-term forest management strategy.

The helicopter pilot who died in a crash in Central Oregon this week helped fly the surviving members of a San Francisco family to safety after a massive search along the Rogue River in December 2006.