By Paris Achen, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore. Jan. 15--Tasked with identifying ways to slash nearly $1.2 million from the Three Rivers School District budget, a 21-member committee will weigh options today that range from closing elementary schools to shortening school weeks to four days.

By Meg Landers, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore. Feb. 27--The Oregon Department of Transportation announced Monday that it has approved $1.6 million in grants to pay for nearly four miles of new greenway trails in Jackson County.

By Jeff Barnard GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Three members of a San Francisco family missing for more than a week were found alive Monday along a snowy, treacherous roadway in southwestern Oregon, police said. A search continued for the father.

Former U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, a Republican who held "endangered salmon bakes" and once accused federal agents of using black helicopter gunships, died Monday in a car crash, her daughter said. She was 68.

By Sanne Specht, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore. Feb. 18--ROGUE RIVER -- The City Council will place a gas tax on next week's agenda after a public workshop failed to ignite much opposition from area motorists.