Rogue Valley Times

2 days ago | rv-times.com | Troy Heie

Published 10:22 am Monday, May 12, 2025 ROME — During his first audience with the international press on Monday, new Pope Leo XIV made an appeal for media and press freedom and the search for truth. “We must say no to the war of words and images. We must reject the paradigm of war,” the recently elected pope said in Rome.

4 days ago | rv-times.com | Nigel Jaquiss

Published 10:57 am Saturday, May 10, 2025 Similar campaigns to privatize OLCC’s monopoly have failed in the pastTwo men filed ballot initiatives last month for 2026 and 2028 that would allow grocers to sell hard liquor. It is unclear who the chief petitioners, David John Allison and Kyle LoCascio, both of Portland, represent. Neither immediately responded to phone calls.

4 days ago | rv-times.com | Troy Heie

Published 10:00 am Saturday, May 10, 2025 Les Zaitz and his wife and business partner, Scotta Callister, are retiring after more than a combined century in journalismWhen the Malheur Enterprise closes at the end of May, Les Zaitz says he will have written his last investigative story. Zaitz, 69, bought the 115-year-old Enterprise in 2015 along with his wife and business partner, Scotta Callister, after a long and distinguished career as an investigative reporter at The Oregonian.

5 days ago | rv-times.com | Damian Mann

Published 1:42 pm Friday, May 9, 2025 Medford resident and retired lawyer tells City Council members that it’s ‘crazy to get rid of a good building’Downtown Medford’s historic 1915 federal courthouse is up for sale, and a new courthouse is scheduled to be built next year. On May 1, the U.S. General Services Administration website listed the existing James A. Redden U.S. Courthouse at 310 W.

5 days ago | rv-times.com | Brad Carlson

Published 12:00 pm Friday, May 9, 2025 Forest management and U.S. Forest Service operational expenditures drop under President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for the Oct. 1 fiscal year. “There are some significant cuts to Forest Service resources in the president’s proposed budget that would affect management activities in Idaho if enacted,” said John Robison, Idaho Conservation League public lands and wildlife director.