19+ hour, 47+ min ago   (202+ words) Rogue Valley Times LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Weigh in on Roadless Rule recision proposal Published 8:00 am Sunday, September 13, 2026 If you are of a mind that the current designations of roadless areas of National Forest land should remain public and not…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (361+ words) Published 10:41 am Thursday, September 10, 2026 A coalition of state attorneys general, including Oregon’s, filed a pair of lawsuits Wednesday challenging the Trump administration’s rollbacks of protections for endangered species. The lawsuits, filed by 20 states and the District of Columbia, seek to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (639+ words) Published 2:30 pm Monday, August 31, 2026 The last weeks of summer find Oregon and much of the Northwest experiencing historic drought, exacerbating what has become one of the most active wildfire seasons in the state and region, according to state and federal…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (569+ words) Published 7:30 am Sunday, August 30, 2026 Extreme drought crept across slightly more of Southern Oregon and Northern Washington, where soil moisture and groundwater levels remained critically poor, according to the latest edition of the U.S. Drought Monitor. Pacific Coast states continued to experience…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (944+ words) Published 2:00 pm Tuesday, August 25, 2026 Retired cattle rancher Rod Haeberle recently counted nine fires within 20 miles of his home in north-central Washington. All summer, he looks outside and sees smoke instead of his neighbor. Haeberle, 77, said that over the past four…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (408+ words) Published 4:00 pm Thursday, August 20, 2026 Bees and butterflies in the Phoenix area have been happily migrating to the new pollinator garden at the back of the Phoenix library. Celebrating its opening with a ribbon-cutting, around 50 attendees and library staff came together…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (154+ words) Published 9:48 am Thursday, August 20, 2026 A 45-foot tree on the northwest side of Medford’s Pear Blossom Park has been cut down by the city. The tree, a Norway spruce, was removed by the city’s arborist after its health continually declined over…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (481+ words) Published 6:30 am Thursday, August 20, 2026 The Trump administration has proposed repealing the U.S. Forest Service’s roadless rule, arguing the 25-year-old regulation has turned national forests in the West into fire hazards. The rule generally prohibits road construction and logging on 45 million acres,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (221+ words) Published 10:00 am Wednesday, August 19, 2026 The latest edition of the U.S. Drought Monitor was unchanged for the Pacific Northwest, with dryness and drought continuing to cover most of the region, sparing only coastal areas near the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (493+ words) Published 9:30 am Tuesday, August 18, 2026 New natural gas power plants will be needed to serve Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, according to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. Charged by Congress in 1980 to write energy blueprints for the four states, the…...