The Grants Pass High School graduation rate jumped last year while Phoenix High School maintained its lead among high schools in the Rogue Valley.

High schools in Josephine and Jackson counties largely fell in line with upward trends across the state showing improvements in the graduation rate for the 2021-2022 school year compared to the year before. Read More »

Grants Pass notched seven pins on the way to a 60-15 win over North Medford in Wednesday's Southwest Conference dual wrestling meet at Heater-Newman Memorial Gymnasium.

Tagge Fry, the top-ranked 145-pound wrestler at the Class 6A level, picked up another first-round fall Wednesday, pinning the Black Tornado's Evan Reyes.

Parker Jarvis, ranked No. 2 at 285, got a second-round fall against David Fuiava, improving to 23-1 on the season for the Cavemen. Read More »

A man being hunted by Grants Pass police for allegedly torturing and trying to kill a woman was previously arrested in Nevada in 2019 on accusations he held a Las Vegas woman captive for two weeks, broke her ribs, shaved her head and forced her to eat a lye sandwich that burned her hand and throat. Read More »

GOLD HILL — Bernadette "Bernie" DeLallo cups her hands around a ball of wet gray clay, gently coaxing it into shape as her right foot works the pedal of the potter's wheel to keep it turning.

"I love the process of throwing [clay]," she says. "I like the repetitiveness of it, the precision of it. And there's this sensibility to it, like a well-crafted sentence... you just know when it's right." Read More »