Four finalists have been selected for the 2025 tree of the year distinction in an annual contest held by the city of Ashland Tree Management Advisory Committee, according to a release from the city. The city will continue to collect votes through an online portal for the public’s favorite foliage until Thursday, July 31.
Downtown Talent came alive with sound Saturday as the first-ever “The Talent Show” music festival took over the streets, offering a free afternoon of live performances by 29 bands across seven outdoor stages.
Neil Peterson, 35, arrived in Kharkiv on Feb. 21 to work as a humanitarian volunteer. It has long been a strategically essential city targeted by Russia during its more than three-year war of aggression against Ukraine, and it is routinely hammered by Russian missile and drone strikes.
In the end, Oregon lawmakers did grapple with the biggest questions before them this year. All it took was six months of grinding work weeks. The 2025 legislative session ended Friday evening at 11:15 p.m. after a marathon day packed with more drama and uncertainty than any session in recent memory. With the final gavels, lawmakers bid farewell to a session that included some notable accomplishments — and one dizzying failure.
A surprise display to mark the end of Pride Month went up in Ashland early Saturday morning, June 28, Pride Day. Twenty-five Pride flags were placed on the posts of the streetlights along the dividing median on Siskiyou Boulevard from its western end at East Main Street to the Southern Oregon University campus at Garfield Street.
Oregon Democrats have pulled the plug on a transportation package more than a year in the making, pivoting to a 3-cent increase to the state gas tax that supporters and opponents alike said was nothing more than a Band-Aid.
A 19-year-old man fell from a cliff and drowned in a swimming hole at a rock quarry reservoir 14 miles east of Ashland off Dead Indian Memorial Road Thursday evening, according to a news release from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
“If that deer needs to be lethally removed, it falls to us,” Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara said. “It’s not unusual to have to put down injured deer — we do that fairly frequently — but I’m not sure if this has happened before.”
Rogue Valley Transportation District might eliminate two-thirds of its 15 bus routes and lay off up to 82 employees because of a freeze in federal funds. While no routes have been cut yet, RVTD will be looking at routes with low ridership, such as the relatively new Route 17 in Ashland, which was funded by a grant.
Herbert Rothschild: There’s little chance that our conduct will change. We must stage periodic displays of our might to justify our huge annual expenditures on the military and to give the young men in their pickup trucks some reason to be proud of a country where their chances of thriving diminish year by year.
At just 21 years old, Ashland native Brooklyn Williams is stepping into her biggest role yet — the lead in Oregon Cabaret Theatre’s adaptation of “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” playing through Dec. 31.
A women’s singing group with member from the 27 Ukrainian families now taking refuge in Ashland will perform at a benefit concert Dec. 14.
The Trump administration will require that homeless service providers force people to receive behavioral health treatment in order to access long-term, federally supported housing, a move that could mean organizations across Oregon would have to choose between receiving federal dollars or state dollars — but not both.
A local artist who arrived in Ashland three years ago is having his first solo art show at the White Rabbit gallery in downtown Ashland. Micah Blacklight has been waiting for the chance to show the personal perspective of an injustice he has witnessed over decades.
This year marks the 10th annual Thanksgiving Community Peace Meal and the First Presbyterian Church of Ashland has offered to share their space with the community. SOJWJ is lining up volunteers and cooks, as well as those who can give financial support. They are expecting to feed more than 300 people.
Ashland has been approved for a federal loan of up to $73 million to replace its 76-year-old water treatment plant, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday. The low-interest financing will allow the city to draw funds as construction progresses.
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