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Juliet Grable/JPRWhile patrons of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival stayed away during the pandemic, others came, once the first waves of the public health crisis receded. Many were there to go mountain biking or on wine tours, or were simply passing through on their way to somewhere else. -
Roman Battaglia/Jefferson Public RadioAshland's first 24-hour homeless shelter is finalizing renovations this summer. Organizers want to ensure its stability by raising the money they need.
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In the late '90s, Ashland was a trailblazer in equitable internet access. Now, the Ashland Fiber Network is failure-prone and falling behind. -
In the wake of last week’s mass shooting, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, some school districts in the Rogue Valley are preparing to support their communities over the summer.
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Ashland’s city manager is proposing over a million dollars in budget cuts to address a growing deficit.
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The city of Ashland is considering how to address a total $3 million dollar budget shortfall and avoid major cuts to city services.
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A species of invasive crayfish has been found in an Ashland waterway. It’s the first time they’ve been identified in the state.
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Renowned Ashland-based photographer Christopher Briscoe is known for his stylistic portraits. Now, he’s in Ukraine, capturing the stories of people fleeing the war and talking to those who have come to help. JPR’s Erik Neumann spoke to Briscoe, in Poland at the time, about what he’s discovered while documenting this tragedy.
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Rouge Valley residents gathered in Ashland Thursday night to rally in support of Ukraine on the one-month anniversary of the invasion by Russian forces.
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The Ashland city council declined to create a policy on Monday night about which journalists should be allowed to attend executive session meetings that are closed to the public. Crafting such a policy would require answering the sometimes murky question of who should be considered a journalist.
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Web news site for Ashland, Oregon.
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Politics often get in the way of building homeless shelters. But because of recent wildfires and the pandemic, Southern Oregon saw an unusual amount of growth in shelters this year.
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Ashland is just one of Oregon’s small communities where newspaper coverage has been shrinking in recent years. But creators of a new hyperlocal journalism website are hoping to fend off that trend.
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Two Ashland high school students have started an online petition to convince the school board to put in place a vaccine mandate for students. The petition at change.org has garnered more than 800 signatures.
