Most of Oregon's congressional races this year are shaping up as lopsided affairs, with only one of the five incumbents so far facing a well-funded challenger.
Campaign finance reports submitted over the weekend show that
Republican Art Robinson is the only challenger to raise much money.Read More »
Families for Community in Southern Oregon is one of three organizations receiving grant money from the Oregon Department of Human Services. $81,809 in funding is to help families raising children with developmental disabilities.Read More »
Pear Blossom festivities will affect traffic in the downtown Medford area over the course of Friday and Saturday. Through 7 p.m. tonight, Main Street will be closed from Riverside to Central Avenue, Bartlett Street will be closed from Middleford Alley to 8th Street, and the public parking lot between Riverside Avenue and Bartlett, north of 8th.Read More »
Grant funds from ODOT will once again strengthen patrols in the Lake Of The Woods safety corridor along Highway 140 between mileposts 29 and 47. Safety corridors are segments of the highway system that are deemed to have inordinately high fatal crash rates.Read More »
A Canadian man will be remembered at a public memorial service Saturday, more than a year after he was last seen leaving his stranded van in the Nevada wilderness.
The service for Albert Chretien will be held at the Bethel Church in his hometown of Penticton, British Columbia.Read More »
A Bend man with ties to Medford has been sentenced to six years for a scam in which he lured investors into putting money into franchised alternative medicine centers.Read More »
More details are surfacing in the on the job death of an Oregon State Hospital employee who died Wednesday night. 36-year old Matthew Barron of Salem reportedly died of natural causes between 6 and 6:30p.m. An autopsy is pending. Barron is survived by a wife and 3 children. He had worked for nearly three years as a mental health security technician.Read More »
Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian is urging businesses that employ minors to consult his agency (BOLI) first. This comes after Oregon City’s Schultz Manufacturing was fined after a teen was injured using a band saw that he shouldn’t have been operating.Read More »
A fire sprinkler went off in the mental health unit at Rogue Valley Medical Center this Thursday caused a rush of firefighters and police to the hospital. Any flames were quickly doused, but flowing water necessitated a full response. Crews vacuumed up the water and police were investigating the incident.
