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With the renovation and construction of a new middle school underway in Medford, the district is looking to finalize new attendance zones for the city.

Commercial fishermen in Coos Bay are protesting what they see as a rushed effort to bring offshore wind farms to the Oregon coast.

Oregon’s only Republican representative, Cliff Bentz, faces challengers from the left and right during the upcoming May primary election. Here’s what to expect for the Congressional District 2 race.

Hemp farmers in Oregon worry about the future of their industry amid an array of challenges, including new state rules and enforcement and an uncertain regulatory environment at the federal level.

Southern and Central Oregon are bearing the brunt of an extensive drought that could bring early wildfire and more water shortages this summer.

A new bill moving through the Oregon legislature would give low-income workers a $600 one-time payment.

A comedy short film shot in the Ashland area is airing in the Sundance Film Festival this week. It has ties to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Politics often get in the way of building homeless shelters. But because of recent wildfires and the pandemic, Southern Oregon saw an unusual amount of growth in shelters this year.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on Thursday declared a state of emergency in 22 counties — including Jackson, Josephine, Douglas and Curry Counties — due to a heat wave that’s expected to bring dangerously hot weather across much of state into Saturday.

Last September’s Almeda Fire burned hundreds of homes in Southern Oregon, many of them low-income housing units. The Federal Emergency Management Agency partnered with local and state organizations to help rebuild.

Many Asian-Americans say they feel especially unsafe after eight people, including six Asian women, were targeted at their workplaces in Atlanta, Georgia, last week. On Friday, Southern Oregon University’s Social Justice and Equity Center held a community gathering to show support for those impacted by the violence.

The federal Paycheck Protection Program is supposed to do just that: protect employee’s paychecks from the economic impact of the coronavirus. But some businesses like the Oregon Shakespeare Festival can’t rehire workers if there’s no work to be done.