Writing an opinion piece on the recent KTVL layoffs feels more like writing the station’s obituary.

Plans are moving along for a wide, landscaped wildlife overpass spanning Interstate 5 about two miles north of the California-Oregon border.

It can be difficult to find the perfect cheese, from the mild taste of a classic cheddar to the funky flavor brought by blue cheese, but Phoenix-based cheesemonger Mélodie Picard

Talent is planting a thousand trees to help restore the urban forest canopy devastated by the Almeda Fire. A state grant is paying for the project.

Two local journalists with long-time ties to Southern Oregon have been promoted to leadership roles in the Rogue Valley Times newsroom.

Galice Resort owner Debbie Thomason says the resort property hasn't sold in the year it’s been on the market and that she expects to open for the season May 18

A request for proposals to create a community residential center for senior citizens on the Southern Oregon University campus in Ashland will likely be issued by the end of summer

No one could have guessed in 1933 that a tiny Southern Oregon cheese company now called the Rogue Creamery would someday produce the world’s best cheese and have it served

The first major meteor shower of spring is upon us, and if skies remain clear enough over the Pacific Northwest, it promises to be a good show.

Illegal tent camping is about to become extremely difficult in Medford.

An all Black, all-woman quartet of conservatory trained string musicians known for incorporating jazz elements to the highest levels of classical music — not to mention being featured in a

In the beginning ... there was uncertainty.

Rogue Creamery’s Bluehorn Blue was named one of the top 96 cheeses in the world at the 2022 World Cheese Awards held last November in Newport, Wales. How do you

Stay cool, buddy.

As the Head Fire took hold Tuesday about 20 miles west of Yreka, California, a dangerous pyrocumulous cloud built up overhead.

Oregon’s second-largest natural gas utility won’t be able to charge customers to pay for its political and lobbying activities and will have to decrease its proposed 2024 rate increase under

Medford's newest indoor pools are holding water, and a new $75 million aquatics and sports center in west Medford is on track to welcome swimmers in early January, city officials

Nearly three years after the Almeda Fire struck on Sept. 8, 2020, Ashland police Chief Tighe O'Meara still remembers glancing into his department's briefing room the day following the blaze

ASHLAND — Southern Oregon University first-year leader Gabrielle Weyhrich has been named the NAIA Women’s Wrestling Coach of the Year after guiding the Raiders to a national title over the

On a cold, windswept ridge above the Applegate Valley near Ruch last week, a group of specialists with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service looked

It turns out that he's a she, but in any case, William ShakespEAR, a Townsend's big-eared bat from Butte Falls, is a winner.

Medford City Council decided Thursday to immediately begin removing tent campsites in public spaces after increasing problems blamed on homeless people sparked community anger and frustration.

It would have been easy for us to sidestep the controversy over “Dilbert” — the comic strip pulled from 2,000 newspapers, including ours, this week after a YouTube video went

From its state-of-the art aquatic video board to the largest competitive pool between Redding and Eugene, Rogue X's collection of Southern Oregon superlatives are nearly ready for their public debut.

When Bill Smullin created KOBI-TV 5 on Aug. 1, 1953, there were no other VHF television stations in the state of Oregon.

All was relatively calm Monday after lightning sparked numerous wildland fires over the weekend in Jackson and Josephine counties, and across the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.

Everyone got out safely after a fire broke out in the kitchen of the Dairy Queen at Exit 19 on the north side of Ashland on Saturday afternoon, according to

Hailed as an early influencer in the commercial rafting industry, 97-year-old Medford resident Bryce Whitmore is one of six new inductees in the International Whitewater Hall of Fame.

The pandemic, wildfires and resulting decline in tourism to Ashland nearly shut down ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum.

On Wednesday, March 1, the Rogue Valley Tribune changed its name to the Rogue Valley Times.

The Rogue Valley Times operates like a scrappy startup, a small newsroom looking to make a big enough impact that they can grow into a community staple.

Fall colors were on full display Sunday in Ashland's Lithia Park, where officials marked the one-year anniversary of the renovated Ashland Japanese Garden over the weekend. The Ashland Parks and

It is fitting that a one-year milestone is known as the paper anniversary. That’s precisely what we are celebrating this week at the Rogue Valley Times: the first anniversary of

ASHLAND — With its season on the brink, Southern Oregon never flinched while staging an Ashland Bracket takeover in the NAIA Softball Championships Opening Round. It’s been a running theme

The Talent Historical Society culminates years of work this weekend with the opening of its history-preserving exhibit "Fire Remnants" on the devastating Almeda Fire.

Dark Sky Place certification efforts to preserve the night sky continue to move forward at Oregon Caves National Monument, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument and Crater Lake National Park, but it’s...

AGE: Archie is an adorable 1½-year-old border collie mix.

The Jackson County Elections Office has received and processed 7.7% of ballots as of May 14 — one week before the primary election.

Medford is about to sharpen its legal teeth to crack down on homeless camping next to streams, schools and other public places.

After more than two decades of devotion to Omar’s restaurant, owner Jennifer Sink is selling the establishment — to the right person.

Dick Fosbury, a lanky leaper and a Medford Sports Hall of Famer who completely revamped the technical discipline of high jump and won an Olympic gold medal with his “Fosbury

Medford has embarked on a strategy to adapt to less rainfall, hotter summers and more wildfires.

A juvenile great horned owl has a new view of life after the rescued bird of prey went under anesthesia Tuesday for cataract surgery at Bliss Animal Eye Care.

Rogue Valley wine grape growers are looking forward to a solid harvest this month, with cool mornings and warm afternoons providing ideal grape-ripening conditions so far.

A former Medford Police Department officer who resigned in 2020 after she was found to be untruthful during an investigation into her handling of a Medford Municipal Court subpoena could

Flames from the Kelly Fire threatened the historic Patrick Creek Lodge along Highway 199 in California, Terry McNaught, co-owner of the lodge said Thursday.

Citing ways that Medford's response to the homelessness crisis differs from landmark cases in Grants Pass and Boise, Idaho, a federal judge has deemed Medford's time-place-manner camping ordinances...

A one-time exchange student who spent his teen years in the Rogue Valley recently paid a visit to one of the most memorable places of his life: the town where

Nurses at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford have overwhelmingly approved a new labor contract that offers substantial raises and curtails the hospital’s use of travel nurses.

Age: Snotlout is 5 months old.

Back and bigger than ever, the Talent Harvest Festival returns Oct. 7 with a record-breaking 100-plus vendors, 14 bands and artists performing across five separate stages and an expected turnout

Homes built for a project north of Phoenix to house Almeda Fire survivors and that were declared uninhabitable will be rebuilt.

What do you need to know about what’s going on in your community? How do you currently find out that information? How would you like to find out that information?

Williams-based liquid herbal extracts provider Herb Pharm’s operations are growing much larger following the company’s expansion into Central Point with a 24,000-square-foot bottling and distribution...

Better ADA accessibility and access to areas of Crater Lake National Park such as lake viewpoints along Rim Drive are among the goals of the park’s recently released accessibility self-evaluation and...

A quick response by an off-duty Medford firefighter saved the lives of three Grants Pass youths Tuesday morning.

Losing 500,000 bees in the Almeda Fire was one of countless stings Sharon Schmidt endured as she has struggled to put her life back together.

The place where the state of Oregon wants to put a wildlife crossing over Interstate 5 is at an animal-rich biological preserve where a Bureau of Land Management ecologist and

The 27 veterans who stepped off an Alaska Airlines flight just after 1 p.m. at the Medford airport Sunday stood a little straighter as a crowd or more than 100

Mt. Ashland hosted 95,944 skiers and riders this year despite having only two-thirds of the operating days compared to a normal season. The nonprofit’s last day of winter operations was

A Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology program that uncovers the history of Chinese immigrants in early, rural Oregon has received a federal award of nearly half a million dollars.

An attorney representing Stabbin Wagon, a Medford-based harm-reduction nonprofit whose owner was recently arrested for allegedly interfering with law enforcement, said the organization has signed a...

U.S. Army combat veteran David Sterling normally doesn't struggle with words, but he was speechless Saturday when he was presented with a customized Harley-Davidson motorcycle at the 27th annual...

Southern Oregon’s first Panera Bread location is set to open Aug. 21 in Medford, at the corner of Garfield Street and Highway 99.

Officials in Ashland have discovered invasive quagga mussels on a pontoon boat that was transported to the state from Nevada, marking the first such finding of the year.

Burned out by wildfire and constricted by COVID over the past three years, the city of Phoenix is moving toward a brighter economic future, according to people involved in new

If we could sum up the past 12 months in one image, it would be a construction sign reading “Work in Progress.”

Owing to the combined efforts of Jackson County Jail staff and Southern Oregon Goodwill, inmates who were arrested without the right clothes for the weather — if they were wearing

Nearly 200 people filled the Prescott Room inside the Medford Police Department Wednesday for a downtown safety meeting, some of them spilling out into the hallway in hopes of getting

A record 163,581 voters have registered this election season in Jackson County, with nonaffiliated voters continuing to outnumber Republicans and Democrats.

Tuesday was another wild day at Bliss Animal Eye Care in Medford.

A rapidly growing wildland fire about 20 miles west of Yreka, California, has prompted the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office in California to issue an evacuation order for an area that

When she was a young child, Liza Salazar, a Medford resident originally from Los Angeles, was hospitalized and required long-term care.

Living most of his life in the neighborhood where early Medford entrepreneur Spencer Bullis once operated a trolley line, Euclid Avenue resident Joe Henry admits to an unusual enthusiasm for

The Flat Fire burning near Agness was human-caused, Curry County Sheriff John Ward confirmed Monday.

It’s Wednesday afternoon in the downtown Medford offices of the Rogue Valley Times, and I’m finally focusing on writing this column, which I’m told will publish Saturday, centered on the

In Ashland, one local chef’s Japanese-inspired Cascadian cuisine is impressing diners and critics not only in the Rogue Valley, but across the United States.

Humans aren’t the only ones glad to see warming temperatures and other signs of spring.

Two sites off the Southern Oregon Coast could soon be home to the state’s first floating offshore wind farms. But first, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will meet