Rogue Valley newspaper in Southern Oregon. Rogue River Press serves Rogue River, Gold Hill, and Wimer
The 2025 Oregon Legislative Session concluded on June 27, delivering significant investments in the state’s housing and homelessness efforts. Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) is grateful for key legislation passed that will bring much-needed relief to families experiencing housing instability across Oregon. “These investments are the result of collective[Read More…]
JULY 24, 1980 On July 17th, at approximately 6:00, a 20-acre forest fire near East Evans Creek Road was contained. The fire was fought for several hours by the combined efforts of the Medford and Grants Pass State Forestry crews and the Evans Valley Rural Fire Dept. The Jackson County[Read More…]
The Oregon Department of Justice (ODOJ) is warning Oregonians about a fast-growing and deeply concerning scam after an Eastern Oregon woman was defrauded out of $600,000—nearly her entire life savings. After a call to the ODOJ Consumer Protection Hotline, local law enforcement intervened just in time to prevent the woman[Read More…]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration partners with organizations that work directly with landowners to find solutions to restore degraded fish habitat on private lands. One such partner, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in eastern Oregon, has spent decades building long-term relationships with farmers, ranchers, and irrigation[Read More…]
Soldiers from the Oregon Army National Guard’s 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) returned home July 19, 2025, following a successful year-long deployment to Kosovo as part of the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) mission. The welcome home event at Camp Withycombe marked the homecoming for soldiers participating in KFOR’s 34th[Read More…]
At its first meeting in a month on Tuesday, July 22, the Rogue River Planning Commission analyzed the City Council’s requests to keep Planned Unit Developments (PUDs) a viable option for developers in Rogue River. Onnie Heaton, a planner working for the city under contract through the Rogue Valley Council[Read More…]
For the first time in 15 years, junior high students in seventh and eighth grades in the Rogue River School District will have their place when the junior high wing on the south end of Rogue River Junior Senior High School opens its doors on the first day of school,[Read More…]
Firefighters working the 469-acre Board Shanty Fire in the hills southeast of Grants Pass, and southwest of Rogue River, had pushed containment of the fire to 20 percent by the morning of Tues., July 22. They were able to cool the perimeter of the fire 200 feet inside the boundary[Read More…]
This time of year, the burden of all the serious arguments and disagreements left over from Thanksgiving dinner melt deliciously into a far more congenial controversy, which plays out at every ice-cream shop in the land: Do you prefer a cake cone, waffle cone, or a sugar cone? If you’re[Read More…]
JACKSON COUNTY • INTERSTATE 5 (Pacific Highway), MP 1-163, Southern Oregon Wrong Way Driver Mitigation project ($2.5 million), https://www.oregon.gov/odot/projects/pages/project-details.aspx?project=21699 This project improves safety along Interstate 5 by adding features that alert drivers when they enter an interchange off-ramp from the wrong direction. These enhancements include permanent signs, reflective pavement markings[Read More…]
