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Published April 9, 2021 at 10:05 AM PDT April Ehrlich/JPR A temporary camp set up in Hawthorne Park in Medford after the Almeda Drive Fire. Just a short drive up Interstate Five through Medford yields a view of a large number of unofficial campgrounds and tents. And the Medford City Council recently decided to crack down. The council met in special session to pass an ordinance banning camping along the Bear Creek Greenway during fire season, but the ordinance goes much further, laying down a number of additional restrictions on where people can sleep or otherwise spend the night, ...

Note: This story contains images of a recently deceased person. A couple of stray dogs were running loose in the parking lot of the Linn County fairgrounds just after 8 a.m. on Oct. 23, 2019, and Gerry Morris, a community service officer (CSO) with the Albany Police Department in Oregon, was on his way to help round them up. Morris turned onto a street that snakes past the blank-looking backs of stores and homes wedged next to railroad tracks. He noticed a beat-up silver Nissan Sentra stranded in the bike lane, partially blocking the road. A man with salt-and-pepper hair, who was wearing bag...

Originally published on January 26, 2021 6:08 pm Update, Tuesday 5 PM: Highway managers put chain requirements into effect on portions of Interstate Five on both sides of the state line, north of Grants Pass and in the Dunsmuir/Mount Shasta area. In addition, some chain requirements went into effect on U.S. 199 over Hayes Hill, between Grants Pass and Selma. The National Weather Service in Medford warned of Extremely Dangerous Travel (NWS italics) between 6 PM Tuesday and 1 AM Wednesday in the Weed area, with heavy snow and strong winds expected. And early indications are that another st...

Cold air and moist air will meet over the region Tuesday and Wednesday, with significant snowfall expected.

Shut down a stretch of pacific coast highway as parts of southern california get hit with heavy rains as expected, and also causing a plane to skid off of our runway in burbank. in our west coast news hub. >> it's been raining here for about 30 hours, shep. it is a mess all over southern california. it was up the pacific coast highway just north of pepperdine university, and it shut down in both directions all the way up to the ventura/los angeles county line. there is mud on the road, but it is mostly the small rocks that are making the roads very impossible. it is going to be a while before ...