Josephine County’s three commissioners spent much of the past week confronting a familiar problem with increasingly expensive consequences: how to maintain the county’s public-safety system without creating another financial hole somewhere else in county government. By Wednesday night, they had made their biggest decision. The…
Oregon’s government ethics laws rarely become dinner table conversation until the conduct of an elected official places them squarely before…
Oregon managed to get more than 7,000 additional students into classrooms on a regular basis during the 2025 to 2026…
A political fight that began over signatures on an Oregon recall petition has developed into a broader federal constitutional challenge,…
A campaign finance proposal being prepared for a possible 2028 Oregon ballot could change how corporations and other organizations spend…
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Health and Wellness
Southern Oregon residents waking up Saturday morning are once again being reminded to pay attention not only to the wildfires burning across the region, but also to what those fires may be putting into the air. With the Fielder Mountain Fire burning near Rogue River and other wildfire activity continuing…
Lotus enters our historical record not as a battlefield medicine or a nutrient-dense food, but as a symbol of clarity, awakening, and the mind’s ability to rise above the noise of the world. Long…
A disease the United States once pushed out of continuous circulation is making a consequential return, and Oregon is now experiencing its own share of a national measles resurgence that has already produced thousands…
Sea buckthorn’s story begins on the edges of ancient battlefields, long before medicine understood fatty acids, carotenoids, or mucosal repair. In the windswept regions of Central Asia, soldiers noticed that wounded horses that grazed…
Local News
Stephen E. Fitch has rejected a request to dismiss his claims against Josephine County Sheriff David Daniel, keeping the sheriff…
National News
Packing the family into the car and pointing it toward Yellowstone, Yosemite or the Grand Canyon remains one of the great American vacation traditions, but travelers…
