Ashland

The city of Ashland is paying out $700,000 to a former parks department employee as part of a settlement agreement.

The goal is to design the most efficient and safest mass evacuation plan in case of a disaster.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2023 season will be able to finish out this year thanks to a successful emergency fundraising campaign.

Despite being a small town, Ashland is home to a thriving community of drag queens, kings and everyone in between.

Circuit Court Judge Timothy Barnack sentenced Robert Paul Keegan, 50, on Friday to the maximum possible sentence for the charges.

The City of Ashland is opening a designated campground for houseless individuals, which will allow Ashland police to enforce a previously paused camping ban.

Multiple women have come forward in recent years describing a culture of harassment and bullying in the Ashland Parks and Recreation Department.

Ashland is the unexpected home of the country’s only full-service forensic laboratory devoted to tracking illegally transported animals and plants. Now the lab is employing a new strategy to get forensic tools to U.S. ports to stop the illegal timber trade.

Workers at the Ashland store are looking to join the Starbucks Workers United union to advocate for more staffing and better pay.

Tonya Graham, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2020, was unanimously selected by the council to serve through the next election in 2024.