The Talent Business Alliance talked tourism with residents from Talent and Phoenix during a Thursday, July 10, listening session. Talent and Phoenix, the two cities that experienced the worst of the 2020 Almeda Fire, have come together to bolster tourism in their respective communities in the years after the devastating fire.
An estimated 120 to 150 attendees trickled into Southern Oregon University’s Recital Hall on Wednesday to learn more about the Rogue Valley Manor’s parent company Pacific Retirement Services and its pitch to operate a senior living housing development proposed for the Ashland campus. Another company will talk about its plans on Friday afternoon.
Recology, Ashland’s contracted waste and recycling collection service, has announced a change in curbside recycling rules effective Tuesday, July 1, according to a post on its website.Â
Oregon lawmakers’ latest attempt to prop up the state’s struggling retail pharmacies by regulating middlemen companies has died amid uncertainty over the legislation’s complexity and pushback from insurance companies.Â
The Portland Tribune is ending its print publication starting next week and will continue as a digital-only news service, according to the paper’s publisher.
Following an announcement to members and donors of the departure of executive director Gabriella Calicchio, Oregon Shakespeare Festival on Friday announced the position has been filled internally while the organization launches a search for a permanent replacement.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Executive Director Gabriella Calicchio is on leave and will soon officially step down from a leadership role she just assumed in November, according to an email sent by OSF to major donors Thursday.
The innovative product is the brainchild of Cassandra Davis — and it recently earned her a $100,000 investment from Oregon Angel Food (OregonAF) Investors to help scale her growing business, Functional Botanicals, an Ashland startup with a half-dozen employees.
A Domino’s Pizza outlet is scheduled to open Monday, June 16, in Talent, according to a postcard announcement mailed recently to Talent households.
At Panache & Gusto, a limited-time wine-tasting pop-up set in the outdoor courtyard of Le Petit Café Crêperie, Georgina Ruff and Megita Denton will offer something refreshingly different: a judgment-free, community-rich experience built around female-driven wines, rare grape varieties and sustainable small producers.
One of Southern Oregon University’s most elite programs – its Honors College – is on its way out as part of $10 million in cost cuts detailed in the Resiliency Plan approved by the Board of Trustees in September.
Trisha Vigil: While closing the government may seem a national rather than a local issue, to Rogue Valley residents, it is clearly a local issue.
A proposed ballot initiative to eliminate Oregon’s estate tax is moving forward, even as the state braces for a massive loss in federal funding due to cuts related to Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. The estate tax generated $423 million for Oregon in 2024-25, a critical revenue stream as the state faces an estimated $15.1 billion in federal cuts, primarily from two programs that benefit low-income Oregonians: Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
The art exhibition of a renowned American artist living in Ashland has opened at the Langford Art Gallery in Phoenix. The exhibition “Beneath the Surface” features dozens of paintings by artist Abby Lazerow. The artist describes her work as “the search for human connection.”Â
Ashland’s 15th annual SOPride Festival brought together students, educators, activists and dozens of local groups on Saturday, Oct. 4 for the event’s parade in downtown Ashland.
Saying the Trump administration directly contravened her Saturday order blocking the federal government from mobilizing National Guard troops in Portland, a federal judge on Sunday evening issued a broader order barring the federal government from relocating National Guard members to Oregon from any state.
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