Jackson County News

A second bat has tested positive for rabies in Southern Oregon. Jackson County health officials have received numerous calls about bats in the past two weeks.

Jackson County Commissioner C.W. Smith and his challenger, Jim Olney, voiced their visions for the Rogue Valley before a small audience attending a land-use discussion held Sunday afternoon at Roxy Ann Winery.

A Central Point man died late Saturday after two vehicles traveling in opposite directions simultaneously struck a cow in far eastern Douglas County.

Gary Allen Green, 50, of Brookings, the now former Chief Financial Officer of Tidewater Contracting, was charged last week with embezzling anywhere from $350,000 to $1 million from Tidewater.

A California man pleaded guilty this morning in Jackson County Circuit Court to four counts of attempted aggravated murder in connection with drive-by shootings in 2005.

Three is enough - three dogs, that is - if you live in Ashland. A little-known city ordinance, passed in 1968, prohibits city residents from having more than three canines over three months old and, for the ...

A Medford man accused of sexually abusing a minor has been charged with sexual assault.

An acetylene tank caught fire in a Shady Cove garage at 201 Schoolhouse Lane just after 10 this morning, destroying the garage and a 1992 Cadillac.

Details remain sketchy on a reported stabbing that prompted sheriff's deputies to search a White City home earlier today for the suspect.

What ever happened to the other Temple brother who was involved in that racist attack against the two black men who were walking down the street in Medford? I know the one brother pleaded guilty in June.

Fire investigators couldn't find a clear cause of an intense blaze that destroyed the historic Colver House.

Tuesday 7:06 a.m. - A person was found sleeping in the bushes at the corner of Mountain Avenue and B Street and was cited for prohibited camping and released.

Billy Frank Gilley Jr. will not have the chance to tell his story before a jury during his resentencing for the murders of his parents and young sister in 1984.

Investigators with Jackson County Fire District No. 5 have finished their investigation without finding a clear cause of an intense fire that destroyed the Colver House in Phoenix Sept.

A convicted bank robber has been found not guilty of criminal mistreatment in the death of his ex-girlfriend's 2-year-old boy.

The massive tax relief bill overwhelmingly passed Tuesday by the Senate includes several major provisions sought by Pacific Northwest lawmakers.

A convicted pedophile who was living with a Girl Scout troop leader when arrested last spring has pleaded guilty to Measure 11 sex abuse charges in connection with two cases in Jackson County Circuit Court.

Authorities are awaiting the results of an autopsy and toxicology tests to help them determine exactly what happened in a shooting in Butte Falls Sunday that left one man dead.

Oregon Department of Forestry's Incident Management Team 2, commanded by Bill Hunt, has been dispatched and assumed command of the 600-acre Doubleday Fire, effective 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 18, 2008.

A 66-year-old Butte Falls man is dead following what investigators are describing as an accidental shooting.