Just inside the main entrance to the Flying Lark, a worker laid flooring in the area planned for gambling, an expanse a little larger than a basketball court.

Adjacent to the gambling area, in Jack's restaurant, seating booths were not yet installed. Outside, workers who were delayed a week because of weather put down steaming asphalt. Two hooves were visible from the base of a covered statue out front, part of $2 million in artwork planned for the site. Read More »

Illinois Valley's wrestling team continued its torrid start to the season, finishing second in the Class 2A-1A championship bracket Saturday at the Oregon Classic in Redmond.

After winning all three of their pool's dual meets on Friday, the Cougars beat Toledo, 49-24, and Central Linn, 45-27, on Saturday before falling to Culver in the championship dual, 54-24.

Illinois Valley's Michael Miller (106 pounds), Ryon Martinho (152), Ryan Griffin (145) each went unbeaten. Read More »

A Sunday afternoon blaze resulted in the total loss of a Williams home over the weekend.

Williams Fire District Chief Rick Vetter said his crew showed up to a fully-involved single-family home in the 16400 block of Water Gap Road.

The Oregon State Fire Marshal is investigating a cause, but none had been identified as of Monday afternoon.

No injuries were reported, as the residents were not there when the home caught fire. Read More »

Two more regional artists are able to see their work large scale and rolling as the Art in Motion program to put artwork on Josephine County Community Transit buses begins a new year.

The "art bus" debuts its new exterior this weekend.

You may see David Tiedemann's painting of Mount Rainier with wildflowers in the foreground. Or it may be Desmond Serratore's plein air painting of the McKee Bridge, a historic covered bridge near Applegate Lake. Read More »