Talent News

With glassy Emigrant Lake beneath her feet and the morning fog hovering around her knees, Jackie Auchard powers herself over the water in a fashion rarely seen in the Rogue Valley.

Barbecues. Blast-out concerts. That's the kind of lineup that makes Memorial Day memorable.

Fifteen years after its first gig at Standing Stone Brewing Co., The Rogue Suspects is still going strong and scheduled to perform nearly 100 shows in 2013.

But Grace Bible Church found itself on the receiving end when Talent Bible Chapel decided to cease operations and gave its 1871 church building to the congregation.

Starting at 9 a.m., volunteers from United Way of Jackson County and parents from the school constructed a new brick patio, linked up the pieces of a playground dome, pulled weeds and sanded new picnic tables.

A federal judge has dismissed a movie company's Internet piracy complaint against 34 Oregonians, saying the company was unfairly using the court's subpoena power in a "reverse class-action suit" to save on legal expenses and possibly to intimidate defendants into paying thousands of dollars for viewing a movie that can be bought or rented for less ... (more)

A federal judge last week took aim at "reverse class action lawsuits" while dismissing a Los Angeles-based movie company's lawsuit that claimed dozens of Jackson County "John Doe" defendants had pirated one of its movies off the Internet.

Troy Anthony Jones, 42, of the 7100 block of Wagner Creek Road, Talent. Medford police arrested Jones late Saturday on charges of possession of methamphetamine and failure to appear on a theft charge.

An aged Ponderosa pine that towers over the parking lot at TouVelle State Park is pockmarked with so many thousands of little holes that even seasoned birders have to wonder how acorn woodpeckers developed this tactic for building a year-round larder.

Talent will highlight its local flavor at the Talent Art and Music Festival, held from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 10, in the downtown area.

If the elegant Russian Tea Room on New York City's 57th Street is the hangout for the theater world's rich and famous, there is an equally beloved hangout for the has-beens and soon-to-be famous.

Terry Cooper Sullivan of Talent's Upper Five Vineyard just might be the only wine producer outside of Burgundy, France, who made the smallest amount of wine - 75 cases in 2010 - that earned a 90-point rating from Wine Spectator.

For more than three decades, Doug "Malone" Knudson has provided patrons at the Mt.

Emergency responders spread out Sunday across the Rogue Valley fighting fires in Medford, Talent, Gold Hill and Trail - as thunderstorms began making their presence felt in Southern Oregon.

Oregon State Police say a motorist was killed after driving the wrong way on Interstate 5 and colliding with another vehicle near Ashland.

A man died after he hit another driver head-on late Friday night while driving the wrong way on Interstate 5 about 10 miles from the Oregon-California border, state police said.

A man died after he hit another driver head-on late Friday night while driving the wrong way on Interstate 5 about 10 miles from the Oregon-California border, state police said.

Irrigators tied to Rogue River Basin tributary streams could see water deliveries cut off as early as late June unless late spring rains boost stream flows.

Video contests frequently spark the creativity of Talent filmmaker Ross Williams, whose inventive take on a complicated love story won first place in the Mail Tribune's third-annual Two-Minute Film Festival.

It's 4 o'clock on a Saturday in spring. The sky is blue, and the temperature is short-sleeve perfect as members of Ashland's Eight Dollar Mountain bluegrass band drift into Mark Lackey's backyard to pick a few tunes and cook out on the grill.