Hundreds gathered in Medford on Saturday for a memorial ride to honor Charlie Kirk, the CEO of Turning Point USA, who was assassinated in Utah on Wednesday, Sept. 10.
The former president of the consulting firm ECOnorthwest said a survey of the state’s current condition is “sobering.” Five critical issues were most troubling — housing, education, wildfires, taxation, and attitudes toward growth, including land use laws and permitting processes.
With the May 2026 primary eight months away, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read said Oregonians may start to receive mail and other communications about the election. The easiest way to tell if something is from an official source is to look for the official election mail logo, he said.
The Rogue Valley Transportation District will begin major service reductions starting Tuesday, Sept. 2, due to financial strain caused by delayed federal funding. The cuts to service include the Medford-Ashland Express (Route 1X), shortened weekday hours and a complete suspension of Saturday service.
The state’s lone Republican in Congress, U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz, of Oregon’s 2nd Congressional District, which includes Ashland and Talent, has no publicly scheduled events until Monday, Sept. 8, when he’ll hold a telephone town hall he announced last week.
Here is how misinformation drove the repeal of Oregon’s wildfire risk map.
President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will lead a campaign to eliminate mail-in voting, calling the system a “scam.”
The Oregon Government Ethics Commission acknowledged on Friday that a 2023 law intended to curb secretive “serial communications” among elected officials deserves more clarity from state officials on the use of communications and public meetings law.
More than 300 people packed SOU’s Stevenson Union Thursday as Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, state Rep. Pam Marsh and state Sen. Jeff Golden discussed the state’s federal litigation against Trump-era policies.
At 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, the lasting tone of a gong echoed through downtown Ashland, marking the exact time of the first of the two atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago. A minute of silence was observed by about 60 people gathered at the entrance to Lithia Park for the annual Rogue Valley Hiroshima-Nagasaki remembrance vigil.
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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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