The secret service descended on Ashland this week to prepare for the arrival of presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton at the Ashland Springs Hotel on Thursday. Although security will be extra tight, those helping arrange other specifics of her visit said they are almost underwhelmed by the preparations.
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The Ashland City Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing a Bureau of Land Management proposal to boost logging on land it controls throughout Oregon.
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When Ashland Police Department officials kept hearing repeated complaints about wildly differing impound fees, they decided to look into it to see if maybe they could do something to even the playing field between towing companies.
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After a year and a half on Oak Street in downtown Ashland, Inner Child Café will be open for its last time on Saturday, May 10 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. with free admission and everything in the café, from furniture to toys, for sale.
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A bill that would end cattle grazing while creating a wilderness area in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument was unanimously approved by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday.
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Ashland High graduate Ella Street will spend the summer studying minority rights as one of 59 Humanity in Action Fellows.
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Ashland High freshman Maggie Schein doesn't want to play her sister, top-seeded junior Casey Schein. But if it comes down to it and they do have to square off in the District 4 singles championship match, Maggie has a plan.
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The chants of "MVP, MVP" directed at Kobe Bryant by Los Angeles Lakers' fans have a different meaning now. They represent fact, not just sentiment.
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Mark Ellis watched his ball nick the foul pole and thought back to a game-winning homer Marco Scutaro hit last year off Mariano Rivera that went nearly to the same spot.
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Abby Wambach strode into the lobby of the team hotel with bright eyes, big smile, firm handshake and a newspaper crossword puzzle tucked in her hand, exuding the kind of confidence one would expect from an athlete about to achieve a rare milestone.
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As gas prices soar across the country, the thought of paying $6.25 a gallon would make any consumer cringe.
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A Chinese mountaineering team took the Olympic flame to the top of the world today, a spectacular feat dreamed up to underscore China's ambitions for the Beijing games.
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Shiite Hezbollah supporters and the Lebanese government's Sunni backers clashed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades Thursday in battles that spread through Beirut's streets soon after Hezbollah's leader vowed to fight any attempt to disarm his men.
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Dave Eck, a Half Moon Bay, Calif., mechanic, had attracted a media spotlight with his fleet of vehicles fueled by used fryer grease from a local chowder house. So when Sacramento called, he figured officials wanted advice on promoting alternative fuels. Not at all. The government rang to notify Eck that he was a tax cheat.
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Science has provided the souped-up seeds to feed the world, through biotechnology and old-fashioned crossbreeding. Now the problem is the dirt they're planted in.
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The FBI has withdrawn a secret administrative order seeking the name, address and online activity of a patron of the Internet Archive after the San Francisco-based digital library filed suit to block the action.
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Relief supplies from the United Nations began arriving in Myanmar Thursday, but U.S. military planes loaded with aid were still denied access by the country's isolationist regime five days after a devastating cyclone.
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Tidings editorial
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Remember the goal is peace; SOU flag display meant to honor all lives lost in Iraq war; Complaint regarding the conditions of the Jackson County jail
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Essentially Ashland: By Lance K. Pugh
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr.
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Sometimes there is a moment captured that perfectly sums up the past and foretells the future. It is just such a moment playwright Brian Friel captured in his 1992 Tony Award winning play, 'Dancing at Lughnasa.'
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When the British naturalist George Shaw received a weird specimen from Australia in 1799, one with a mole's fur, a duck's bill and spurs on its rear legs, he did what any skeptical scientist would do: He looked for the stitching and glue that would reveal it to be a hoax.
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So you didn't get your invitation to Jenna Bush's wedding this weekend? No worries.
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Dear Abby
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