Jacksonville News

The city is considering adoption of a national program designed to revitalize downtown areas, but informal assessments suggest it already has accomplished significant portions of the work involved.

"As It Was," the Jefferson Public Radio show featuring two-minute historical sketches from the Northern California and Southern Oregon region served by JPR's network of stations, has been named recipient of the Southern Oregon Historical Society's 2012 Heritage Award.

A cougar has come a little too close for comfort for some in the southern Oregon town of Jacksonville.

When they saw the historic Beekman House's wood shingle roof needed replacement, two retired high school art teachers stepped forward with a $6,000 gift toward the work and repairs to the home's front porch.

It was 110 years ago this week that President Theodore Roosevelt signed the legislation creating Crater Lake National Park.

For a wonderful, welcoming wine tasting, seek out lovely Red Lily Vineyards.A Hidden by trees from the highway, the Red Lily experience begins at the Applegate River.A Crossing the rushing water, the shady beach, with picnic tables and Adirondack chairs, is visible, giving a prelude to the relaxing time ahead.

Bob Russell , mayor of Eagle Point and owner of the Butte Creek Mill there, knew there was something to the tiny, aging brick building across the street from his business the first time he saw it.

Andy Joffer, 49, raises sport cattle on his five acres in Jacksonville, outside of Ashland, as well as on leased pastures in his community.

As I sit here, sloven and satisfied on a Sunday afternoon, I'm thinking about the piety of attending a spiritual service followed by the well-earned decadence of a Champagne brunch.

The man who helped send James Auchincloss to jail on child pornography charges is suing the half-brother of Jackie Kennedy Onassis for almost $1.5 million for lost wages, defamation of character and other civil complaints.

It was nearly a hundred years ago, on April 22nd, 1913, that one of the first lawmen to die in the line-of-duty in Southern Oregon was mortally wounded in a shootout near Jacksonville and in the 99 years since, many more have died protecting the public in our area.

Patrons enter the Angus Bowmer Theatre for a matinee performance of "White Snake" on Thursday.

MEDFORD, Ore. - Britt's 2012 season went on sale to the general public Thursday, and tickets are still available for all concerts on the 2012 lineup.

Jim Clover, right, and Seth Weintraub run on the Sterling Mine Ditch Trail off Upper Applegate Road near Ruch.

She has 55.4 percent of vote in DA contest, with Patridge at 27.7, Hoppe trailing at 16.6 Angie Lanier, left, and Jackson County Chief Deputy District Attorney Beth Heckert react after hearing the first batch of results for the district attorney's race Tuesday at the Frau Kemmling Schoolhaus Brewhaus in Jacksonville.

Residents living near the German restaurant and bar had asked the city to enforce conditions established for the venue.

A plume of smoke anticipated to be visible in the Rogue Valley this afternoon comes from one of three large prescribed fires the federal Bureau of Land Management touched off today to clear underbrush and reduce wildfire danger.

Shoppers already sated on asparagus, however, are passing up the best of the bunch.

When was the last hanging in Jackson County? You had an article last Sunday about the one in Josephine County that happened more than a century ago.

Crews work to put out a structure fire at 2081 Knowles Road in southwest Medford on Monday.