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Last Update Thursday, December 18th, 2025

Josephine County Commissioner Chris Barnett is trying a new tack to get around a standoff with fellow Commissioner Ron Smith over the way a vacancy on the board will be filled.

On Wednesday, hours after the county's legal department sided with Smith's interpretation of the county charter, Barnett scheduled a meeting for Friday of all the other elected county officials. Read More »

Rogue Creamery shuts down its GP dairy
Turns out it wasn't just the farmstand that Rogue Creamery closed at its dairy west of Grants Pass. The dairy is closed, too. Read More »

Grants Pass City Council eyes redevelopment of large property
The Grants Pass City Council voted unanimously Wednesday night to pay consulting firms up to $150,000 to create a redevelopment plan for a large block of underused, partially vacant land in the northwest part of town. Read More »

Josephine jobless rate rises to 7.3% in September
Josephine County's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for September was 7.3%, a slight increase from 7.1% in August and up more than 1 percentage point year-over-year from the September 2024 rate of 6.0%, according to figures released Tuesday by the Oregon Employment Department. Read More »

Oregon reinstates sentences of some Jackson County offenders after recalculations
MEDFORD — A flawed decision by the Oregon Department of Corrections to recalculate the sentences of hundreds of prison inmates, leading to the early release of 12 offenders from Jackson County, has been mostly reversed with most of the sentences reinstated at or close to their original length. Read More »

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