Numbers were down but enthusiasm was high for last weekend's Nativity Festival at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Williams Highway.

"It is beautiful," Lilliana Pellicier of Grant Pass said after touring the estimated 300 creches on display Saturday with her children, Archer, 7, and Aliana, 4. "I had to step away to take it in. It is touching."

For the second game in a row, Hidden Valley wore a team down with constant man-to-man pressure as the Mustangs rolled to a 46-34 win over Oakland on Friday in the first round of girls' basketball action at the Sutherlin Tournament.

Teryn Powers started and ended an 11-2 run late in the second quarter that gave Hidden Valley a 23-19 edge at halftime. Read More »

Grants Pass Police Department

A car driven by a 20-year-old woman crashed into a house, at the corner of Northeast Ninth and A streets, across from Grants Pass High School, at 12:05 a.m. Sunday.

The car left the road and sheared off a fire hydrant, then took out the front porch and caused a gas leak. Two occupants of the house had to leave until the gas leak was fixed. Read More »

Sometimes big things come in small packages.

"The Christmas Angel" is one of them.

The modest family-oriented comedy by James DeVita, which opened Friday at Barnstormers Theatre, had been scheduled to be the company's holiday show last season, but was canceled because of the pandemic.

It is worth the wait. Read More »