Daily Tidings Editorial Board

When recreational marijuana becomes legal for commercial sale on Thursday, no one seems sure if it will unleash a cascade of pot tourism in Ashland, which not only is already a tourist destination but is also the first city on the road from…

At first glance, it might seem Southern Oregon University doesn't stack up well against other colleges in the state, but the raw numbers don't tell the whole story. According to the College Scorecard produced by the U.S. Department of…

By Ben Barnes and Bri Morgan Posted Sep. 25, 2015 at 5:06 PM Editor's note: This is the third of six weekly installments of "Dispatches from India" about Southern Oregon University Honors College students' trip to India this month to…

Posted Sep. 5, 2015 at 12:01 AM To those of us active in the nuclear disarmament movement in the '70s and '80s, Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield was Saint Mark. No one had a stronger commitment to ending the threat of human annihilation…

By LAURA FRAZIER The Oregonian Posted Aug. 28, 2015 at 11:38 AM PORTLAND — Twenty-one Oregon districts ranging from small to the state's largest failed to meet federal testing targets for Smarter Balanced assessments, according to…

Sometimes it takes a human story to make abstract news stories immediate and very real. Behind America’s decades of corporate buyouts, union busting and outsourcing industrial jobs overseas are thousands of human stories. There are stories…

By John Darling For the Tidings Posted Jul. 31, 2015 at 6:33 PM Two high-level officials from the Interior and Agriculture Departments got a tour Wednesday of Ashland’s watershed and a tutorial on the Ashland Forest Resiliency…

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s “Head Over Heels” is a nonstop party. Come as you are, bring in a drink from the concession stand in the courtyard, settle into your seat and share in the fun. “Head Over Heels,” by Tony Award-winning…

Southern Oregon University's 2015 graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 13, at Raider Stadium, will include a commencement address by University of Oregon head football coach and SOU alum Mark Helfrich. The school's 89th commencement is…

By Mary Coombs Posted May. 13, 2015 at 2:00 AM The Ashland Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is one of a number of citizen corps programs throughout the nation to engage volunteers to work with professional emergency responders…