Talent

The Jackson County Library District board voted to begin termination negotiations with its library director after December incidents at the Talent branch.

The Jackson County District Attorney’s Office will not file charges against a Talent library patron who viewed videos of naked children on a public computer last month, saying the material does not meet the legal definition of child sexual abuse material.

The board is considering its next steps, including possibly hiring an outside firm to investigate.

Jackson County commissioners are weighing whether to intervene after a patron at the Talent library was reported for viewing videos of naked children, raising concerns from other library patrons and prompting a police investigation.

The federal government shutdown could start affecting food benefits in November, when the program known as SNAP wouldn’t be paid out, leaving many low-income families scrambling.

Talent’s revamped Old Town Skatepark honors decades of skate history with the inaugural Talent Skate Classic.

Families were flung across the Rogue Valley, and the country, after the 2020 Almeda Fire. That continues to have a huge impact on school enrollment.

The pair of bills has been introduced in the Oregon legislature and would give more money to four school districts impacted by the 2020 wildfires.

From Fires to Flowers, a program run by the non-profit Pollinator Project Rogue Valley, creates vibrant gardens in the scorched footprint of the 2020 wildfire, helping create a landscape that heals both people and pollinators.

More Oregon students are going to class, according to new data from the Oregon Department of Education reflecting the 2023-2024 school year.

The utility finally turned off the extra-sensitive settings on the region's power grid after the end of fire season. Those settings were the cause of a large number of outages in the city of Talent.

The president of electric utility Pacific Power visited the City of Talent Wednesday night to apologize for a series of power outages that have plagued the city this summer.