Grants Pass News

Bottles pile up in a recycling bin in Grants Pass, Ore., in this photo taken on Thursday, July 2, 2009.

Grants Pass police reported today that they have cited a 37-year-old man on charges of stealing from an ice cream truck on SW Rogue RIver Avenue.

A man charged with murdering Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller has been advocating through mailings from his jail cell that such killings are justifiable.

An 81-year-old man reportedly suffering from memory problems and reported missing/endangered caused a 4-car crash on Interstate 5 Tuesday night that killed one person and closed the northbound lanes for 2 hours, Oregon State Police reported.

Wanda R. Solace of Grants Pass received only minor injuries today when her car collided with a commercial truck on Rogue River Highway.

A man was killed Tuesday night on Interstate 5 near Grants Pass in a crash involving a wrong-way driver, who also was reported injured, state police said.

GRANTS PASS - Federal stimulus money will pay for removal of another dam from the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon, adding to a string of dam removals designed to help salmon and steelhead.

A 49-year-old Pendleton man was stabbed Monday night on South Park Street and a Portland man is under arrest.

A construction project that would have closed northbound freeway ramps at Grants Pass starting today is off until at least next week, but drivers will face lane closures near Medford.

It appears David Frasher, the Grants Pass City Manager, can keep his job. The city council had voted to fire Frasher, claiming they lost trust and confidence in his ability.

According to a local official, a proposed JoCo Biomass Production Center in Grants Pass could create rural jobs and energy independence by producing artificial fireplace logs from compressed wood materials.

A 30-year-old California trucker has been charged with money laundering by purchasing laptop computers at Wal-Mart stores and then returning them for cash.

MEDFORD, Ore. - Economic development officials say Ferry-Morse Seed Co. will open its first West Coast distribution point in White City.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The Portland-based Hemp and Cannabis Foundation has opened a permanent clinic in Grants Pass for people seeking medical marijuana cards.

Time is running out Sweetbay Beef Recall A chilling revelation Could the rape and murder of Coralrose Fullwood have been videotaped? One man says it was and he knows where the tape is.

Five fires believed set by an arsonist had residents near Cave Junction hosing down a house as flames whipped through blackberry bushes and scorched power poles.

By Ron Brown A June 23, 2009 A NEAR GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A pipeline blowout has left some 2,000 water users in the Grants Pass Irrigation District temporarily without water.

By Kirk Flatter A June 22, 2009 A GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A two-horse accident at the Grants Pass Downs Sunday has left two jockeys on the sidelines and one horse euthanized.

Associated Press A June 22, 2009 A GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Workers taking apart a dam on the Rogue River in Southern Oregon say they're at the end of the first part of the work.

A Grants Pass tourist was robbed at gunpoint last night. Now police are asking for your help locating the two suspects.