Lower Rogue News Today

It somehow feels like 2024 is still just getting started, but here we are, racing toward the halfway point. The good news is that there are still many

Little Priest Tribal College in Winnebago says its student body and campus are growing - and so are its options for people to study in STEM fields. Little Priest has always offered some health and science courses, but college Vice President of Finance and Operations Mark Vasina said the two-year school is also creating pathways to higher education for its graduates. It has transfer agreements with several area colleges - in many cases, with free tuition for getting a bachelors degree - inclu...

Today is National Voter Registration Day, and in Montana, Indigenous advocates are working to register people and get out the vote. As part of its civic engagement initiative, Western Native Voice is encouraging Indigenous Americans to register to vote and cast a ballot in the next election ... and they are doing it via a drive-through voter registration effort in Billings. ...

As food-sovereignty efforts continue among Native American tribes, a South Dakota organization is bringing together stakeholders for a key brainstorming session. Around the U.S., many tribes are trying to reclaim access to their food systems. Its part of broader movements to revitalize various Indigenous practices and cultures, eroded under the weight of colonization. ...

By Natalie Pate for The Hechinger Report.Broadcast version by Eric Tegethoff for Oregon News Service reporting for The Hechinger Report-Public News Service Collaboration Jaeci Hall completed her dissertation in tears. She was writing about the importance of revitalizing and teaching Indigenous languages, specifically the Nuu-wee-ya’ language and her tribe’s dialects. “I spent months writing,” she said, “just crying while I wrote because of how i...

If you're in search of your first winter steelhead of the season, you'll want to be on a river this weekend. The lack of rainfall...

A half-dozen local river guides spent 28 hours Monday and Tuesday transporting firefighters through the Lower Rogue Canyon after the Hotshots were dropped from helicopters over the weekend to dig fire...

GALICE — A wildfire burning toward the Rogue River’s Wild and Scenic Section has triggered a closure of all hiking and rafting forays into the popular waterway during one of the river’s busiest season...

MEDFORD, Ore. -- New restrictions are in effect this weekend for campfires along the Wild Portion of the Lower Rogue River.

OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: A small-craft advisory is in effect through Saturday afternoon on the South Coast. The Friday forecast calls for 15-knot winds and swells up to 8 feet. Saturday call...