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Frank E. Ross traveled far and wide, but after a lifetime of adventure, returned to his roots in Jackson County, Ore., where he became president of the…

In their new novel, Kacen Callender builds a vast, immersive landscape based on the colonial history of the Caribbean, but it's their morally conflicted heroine who will really hook readers.

You'll bum out a lot of older Americans when you point out that the "summer of love" was 50 years ago. It was an exciting and pivotal year in American…

Present-day Merlin, Ore., has been called the “Gateway to the Wild and Scenic Rogue River” for its proximity to fishing and rafting. The unincorporated…

Josephine County, in rural southern Oregon, has the lowest property tax rate anywhere in the state. Over the years, those low taxes have affected basic public services, from bare bones law enforcement to temporarily shuttering the county library. Why residents here have been so anti-tax has as much to do with the county’s timber history as with its residents’ political views.

All eyes are on North Korea at the moment, thanks to its ongoing weapons tests. But Richard McGregor urges us to look elsewhere for the real story in…

On Aug. 26, 1970, Jimi Hendrix opened his legendary studios New York City. He died just three weeks later before he could see its success, decline and rebirth as a palace of hits.

In 1922, Pacific Power and Light Company, better known as Copco, was putting up a high voltage line from Prospect to Springfield, Ore. The 125 miles was…

Kirk Johnson's new book explores the 2009 theft of rare Victorian-era bird feathers from a British museum by an American music student.

Live-tweeting your fever and body aches after your second shot is the ultimate humble-brag of 2021. But does it really matter to immunity if you have a strong reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine?