rogue valley

MEDFORD, Ore.– A public Celebration of Life for one of the Rogue Valley’s longest running and most prominent businessmen is scheduled for this Saturday. Sherm Olsrud, who passed away last month a the age of 95, was the founder of Sherm’s Thunderbird …

MEDFORD, Ore.– A Medford-based invention is making golf a more accessible sport with help from the Walking Tall Golf Stik. On Saturday, the creator and several golfers invited those who were blind to come to the Bear Creek Golf Course to help …

EAGLE POINT, Ore.– A newly formed organization is bringing a bit of the Old Wild West to southern Oregon. Strapping on saddles, loading guns, and mounting up, this mounted shooters club is capturing a bit of the feeling of being a cowboy …

MEDFORD, Ore.– More than a dozen veterans returned to the Rogue Valley Sunday after taking part in an honor flight to the nation’s capital. The non-profit takes wartime veterans to Washington D.C. at absolutely no cost to them so that the men …

WHITE CITY, Ore. — In an effort to recruit more women into firefighting careers, local fire agencies held a three-day camp this weekend for young women to get hands-on experiences in the fire service. The Rogue Girls Fire Camp is the first …

MEDFORD, Ore.– Two men involved a plane crash in a residential neighborhood of Medford over the weekend were arraigned on Monday for charges of drug trafficking. Zachary Wayne Moore, 34, and Mathew William Thompson, 38, crashed a 1947 single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza on …

MEDFORD, Ore.– A small plane crashed into a Medford neighborhood Saturday afternoon much to the surprise of residents who were enjoying a previously quiet weekend. The plane went down along Whittle Avenue and Grandview Avenue, just south of the Rogue Valley airport, …

CENTRAL POINT, Ore. – Here in the Rogue Valley, while risk of Lyme disease is low, there are a couple of types of ticks you need to watch out for. Ixodes ticks, the ticks that carry Lyme disease, are here year round. …

MEDFORD, Ore.– A bill that would inject more than a billion dollars into Oregon’s public education system each year is heading to Governor Brown who has already indicated she would sign it. On Monday night, House Bill 3427 passed along party lines in …

MEDFORD, Ore.– Two cities, Medford and Grants Pass, are topping the charts in a recent report for having some of the worst air quality in the nation and in the state. The study came from the American Lung Association’s “State of the …