The Grants Pass City Council on Monday formally agreed to give as much as $80,000 to keep a local homeless shelter operating over the next few months, after an appellate decision last week affirmed a lower court's ruling that says people can sleep in the city's parks unless an adequate number of low-barrier shelter beds are available.

Willamette scored the only goal of Saturday's Southwest Conference boys' soccer match against Grants Pass on a free kick at the 18-yard line that ricocheted off the Caveman wall.

"It was a hard-fought battle," Grants Pass coach Travis Boersma said. "It was one of those heartbreaker goals."

Saturday's result at Mel Ingram Field was a reversal of what happened earlier in the season against the Wolverines in Eugene. GP won that game 1-0 on Sept. 10. Read More »

The Grants Pass police SWAT team locked down a neighborhood early Sunday morning in search of a burglary suspect who is well-known to local law enforcement.

The police department said they arrested 35-year-old Eric William Robert Kelly after a standoff on Southwest Jordan Street that lasted about two hours. Read More »

Rising rates of food insecurity brought on by inflation, the lack of affordable housing and other economic pressures, many related to the COVID-19 pandemic, make access to food a real struggle for many Josephine County residents.

For many families, a daily meal is not a choice between which foods to serve, but rather a choice between food and other crucial needs, such as electricity, child care or medication. Read More »