10+ hour, 38+ min ago   (532+ words) Southern Oregon’s long-running hospital staffing battle has reached the state Capitol, where nurses and other medical professionals are pressing legislators to intervene as penalties against Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center have climbed to $1,564,250 under Oregon’s hospital staffing law. Southern Oregon…...

10+ hour, 22+ min ago   (389+ words) Oregon has temporarily closed state-owned land to unapproved data-center development as the explosive growth of artificial intelligence and cloud computing forces the state to reconcile billions of dollars in technology investment with rising electricity demand, water consumption, infrastructure costs and…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (442+ words) Oregon legislators are beginning to revisit laws they previously sent through the Capitol, tracing what happened after those measures took effect and examining whether state agencies, funding and public programs produced the results envisioned when the legislation was approved. Oregon…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (534+ words) Two Southern Oregon hospitals have secured national recognition for health care quality, patient service and community access, placing medical centers in Medford and Grants Pass among hospitals receiving honors from two prominent national publications. Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (285+ words) The economic confrontation between the United States and Canada will sharpen dramatically after midnight Tuesday, when Canadian tariffs reaching 50 percent descend on billions of dollars in American merchandise, carrying a dispute between two of the world’s most closely intertwined economies…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (324+ words) Southern Oregon travelers are entering the fall flying season with a considerably larger price tag attached to air travel, as airline fares climb well beyond their 2025 levels and the cost of reaching destinations across the country places additional pressure on…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (376+ words) Nine neonatologists who spent years caring for Southern Oregon’s most medically vulnerable newborns are no longer practicing under their former arrangement at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center, leaving the region’s only neonatal intensive care unit operating under a changing physician…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (900+ words) Long before Labor Day became the three-day weekend that closes America’s summer, Oregon had already made history with it. In 1887, the state became the first in the nation to legally recognize a holiday honoring working people, placing Oregon at the…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1089+ words) With the final months of 2026 approaching, households across Southern Oregon have an opportunity to examine where their money went this year, what remains vulnerable in their finances and which adjustments can still be made before the calendar turns to 2027. For…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (250+ words) Conditions improved for workers unable to obtain the number of hours they wanted. The number employed part time for economic reasons fell by 414,000 during August to approximately 4.4 million. That federal category includes employees whose hours have been reduced and workers…...