Rogue River News

The story about the Gold Beach family that got lost for six days while looking for mushrooms baffles me.

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.

On Feb. 6, the Ashland Daily Tidings published an article entitled, "Council to hold infrastructure spending hearing; capital improvement project list includes millions in goals." This article reports: "The proposed capital improvement projects, or CIP, list of infrastructure projects and equipment needs would cost 31 percent more than the almost ... (more)

Family of three survives six nights in cold A mushroom-hunting family lost in the woods all of last week survived the cold nights by snuggling close to their 2-year-old purebred pit bull, Jessie, for warmth.

A few years ago, John Rachor painted his helicopter orange and yellow, so it would be easier to spot if he ever crashed and became the target of a search and rescue operation in the rugged forests of southwestern Oregon.

A marijuana grower set up an operation near Rick Rodgers's home in Rogue River. The new enterprise meant a lot people came to his house looking for pot.

A southern Oregon gold miner has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for illegally mining on a salmon stream.Clifford Tracy of Gold Hill was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Medford for failing to file a plan of operations and post a bond before mining on federal land that is critical habitat for threatened salmon.He must also pay ... (more)

In the early 1850s, that yellow metal pulled Louis Galice over an old Indian trail, down the creek that would one day bear his name, and into the Hellgate Canyon.

This April 27, 2011 file photo shows volunteers trimming buds from medical marijuana grown on The Farm, a cooperative in Jacksonville, Ore.

Belinda and Daniel Conne, both 47, and their adult son, Michael, picked up odd jobs to support themselves while they looked for a place to rent in Gold Beach, Oregon.

Ashland School District plans to join forces with Medford-based Maslow Project to help identify and support homeless students attending its schools.

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.

Searchers recovered a can of Pepsi, mushroom-picking buckets and toilet paper on Friday, but no sign of a couple and their adult son who disappeared after leaving their Southern Oregon campsite to pick mushrooms.

Hundreds of fish that Rogue River anglers couldn't catch for their dinners this season will instead feed some of Oregon's hungrier residents next month.

Tracking dogs, airplane crews and people on foot searched southwestern Oregon's rugged forests Thursday for three missing mushroom pickers who disappeared almost five days ago.

ROGUE RIVER, Ore. - When police knocked on Josh Brewer's door to check for marijuana, even one of the nation's most liberal medical marijuana laws was put to the test.

Authorities in Curry County along the southern Oregon coast are trying to find Belinda and Daniel Conne, along with their 25-year-old son, Michael.

A poll of 300 people in southwest Oregon indicate that more than 75 percent of respondents support additional protection for the lower Rogue River corridor.

The three men were in a drift boat when it became stuck on the rocks. They were stranded for almost an hour.

An aggressive pit bull that was menacing people on an athletic field in Rogue River last week, prompting a lockdown of a nearby elementary school, was captured alive about 5 p.m. Friday, police said.