Diane Megaw

GRANTS PASS, Ore. —  Responding to reports of a disturbance between four men on Saturday at about 2:47 p.m., Grants Pass Police dispatched to the 5th Street Resting Area found a 46-year-old man bleeding from his head and mouth. After an…

A California woman, 43-year-old Jamie McGowen, who stole almost $1.3 million in Covid-relief program funds and failed to pay the IRS over $700,000 in payroll taxes she collected from the employees of a small business in Salem, Oregon, has…

On his first day back at the White House, January 20, Trump signed his first Executive Order (EO), which directed federal agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of U.S.-born children without at least one parent who is a green card…

The CDC National Center for Health Statistics released the provisional annual statistics for drug overdose deaths in the US on Wednesday. In Oregon, 1,449 overdose deaths were recorded in 2024. While this is an increase from the 515…

The Oregon Senate passed House Bill 2299 A earlier this month, a modification that would ban AI-generated porn sharing. HB 2299A, which relates to the unlawful dissemination of intimate images, was modified to include the disclosure of…

MEDFORD, Ore. — Medford’s Jackson Alert,  the new emergency alert system formerly known as 'Citizen Alerts,' will be tested in each evacuation zone on Thursday, May 15, at 10:00 a.m. The City of Medford, in partnership with Jackson…

A father and son were stopped in the parking lot at John P. Amacher Park on the North Umpqua River on Thursday, May 8. The Oregon State Police (OSP) are seeking them after a wild steelhead was later found stashed in bushes where one of them…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The Grants Pass Police partnered with local agencies on Saturday in an operation that seeks to thwart retail theft at WinCo and Walmart on Grants Pass Parkway. Joining forces with the Josephine County Sheriff’s…

A coalition of 19 attorneys general, including Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield,  filed two separate lawsuits against the Trump administration yesterday. The actions are a pushback against the Trump administration’s threats to…

Research by the online tutoring marketplace Wiingy on improvements in US elementary and middle school students indicates that Oregon students improve the most between elementary and middle school, with the highest overall academic…