Environment
How the rapid spread of misinformation pushed Oregon lawmakers to kill the state’s wildfire risk map
Here is how misinformation drove the repeal of Oregon’s wildfire risk map.
August 28, 2025
Here is how misinformation drove the repeal of Oregon’s wildfire risk map.
The evacuation notice for the McDonald Fire burning south of Ashland has been lifted thanks to “successful firefighting efforts,” according to the Jackson County Sheriff.
Earlier this summer people living on the south end of Ashland experienced power outages due to safety settings on equipment owned by Pacific Power.
A monsoonal air mass moving into Southern Oregon is bringing an elevated risk of lightning on an already dry landscape, prompting the National Weather Service in Medford to issue a red flag warning.
Derreck Moore, the new traffic enforcement officer at the Ashland Police Department, met with members of the Transportation Advisory Committee last week as they conducted their regular six-month review of crash and near-miss data for the city.
Ashland School District officials plan to make arrangements over the weekend to relocate an alternative education program from Lincoln School to Ashland High School following the emergency closure of the nearly 100-year-old building after an annual inspection by the city fire marshal turned up severe structural issues.
UPDATE: The Lincoln School in Ashland was closed on Thursday by the city’s Fire Marshal following a fire inspection. The closure impacts two educational programs housed at Lincoln. The district is working to contact families about where their children will attend classes on Monday.
Classes aren’t back in session just yet, but there were lessons learned this week at Talent Middle School and Phoenix High School. A training exercise on Monday was months in the making, involving Phoenix, Talent and Ashland police departments and upwards of 100 volunteers, including Phoenix High School football players and students, staff and parent volunteers.
Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara told city officials on Monday that lowering the bar to expel those who break the law — primarily repeat offenders — from business areas gives cops a “tool to best react to those unlawful behaviors.”
An Ashland man accused of opening fire on passing motorists and responding law enforcement officers was indicted this week in Jackson County Court on charges . that include attempted murder.
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After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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