Grants Pass News

Authorities say an Alabama couple following directions from a GPS device got stuck and were rescued from the snowy, mountainous back road where a San Francisco man got lost and died in 2006.

By Amy Sienicki A November 20, 2009 A GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Grants Pass Public Safety is testing out a license plate recognition system that can automatically scan license plates.

A University of Oregon student from Grants Pass has been selected for a 2010 Marshall Scholarship.

PORTLAND - Oregon Zoo officials say Pete, an 18-year-old black bear who loved to lounge in a tractor tire, has been euthanized because of his age and debilitating arthritis.

KDRV Staff A November 18, 2009 A GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The city of Grants Pass is moving forward with the process of hiring a new temporary city manager.

Timber Products Company announced it will close its White City plant and move its Southern Oregon softwood plywood production to Grants Pass.

A local veteran is frustrated he cannot get the H1N1 vaccine from White City's V.A. The V.A. only has about 50 of the 100 vaccines it was issued earlier this month, and those doses are reserved for the highest risk patients.

SAN GABRIEL, Calif. -- A pilot was killed when a small plane crashed in the heavily populated suburb of San Gabriel northeast of Los Angeles.

Grants Pass police, Josephine County deputies and Oregon State Police troopers served a search warrant at 1251 Placer Road in Wolf Creek, seizing more than 5 pounds of processed marijuana, meth and three firearms.

United States Senator Ron Wyden held a town hall meeting at Grants Pass High School Friday morning.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Fish Restoration and Enhancement Board will meet Nov.

Police misidentified one driver in an accident that sent a Medford teen to Portland Wednesday with serious injuries, they said today.

By Jeff Barnard Associated Press Writer A November 10, 2009 A GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Gov.

Many of us are already thinking about that Thanksgiving turkey but some families are going to be struggling to get by for the holidays.

It's a fight, which a group of renters plan to take to the state capital. Renters at the "Roguelea Estates" in Grants Pass feel they are being taken advantage of so they want to get a bill passed that protects elderly renters.

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.