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After responding Sunday night to reports that two cougars were spotted on the Southern Oregon University campus, Ashland police fired a shot at one of the animals, but missed and the cougar escaped, apparently unharmed. According to a…

Hazardous smoke from wildfires has cost the Oregon Shakespeare Festival about $2 million in losses so far and has prompted the festival to cancel its free, outdoor Green Show performances for the rest of the season. The Green Show,…

BY DANNY PENZA... The relationship between Ashland and Guanajuato, Mexico, goes well beyond the current ages of every Ashland Little League player, a pact between sister cities that is closing in on its 50th birthday. This week, the two…

BY JOHN DARLING / FOR THE TIDINGS... VIEW GALLERY There have been many demonstrations against the actions of President Donald Trump’s administration, but what made Ashland’s Wednesday afternoon protest different is that is was largely…

BY JOHN DARLING FOR THE TIDINGS... Using no-interest loans, volunteer labor and sweat equity from owners, Habitat for Humanity has, until now, bought land and built homes from the ground up. That’s changed. Now they’re also doing “critical…

By Laurie Heuston Revels Posted Apr 9, 2018 at 7:43 AM Ashland Independent Film Festival’s director Richard Herskowitz believes that filmmakers’ exposure to classic films inspires them to question and reinvent filmmaking conventions, he…

By Tran Nguyen Ashland Daily Tidings A photograph taken in the 1930s shows a cafe on East Main Street in downtown Ashland with a sign reading, “All White Help.” A Southern Oregon University professor said she was discriminated…

For the Daily Tidings By Caitlin Fowlkes The amount of lawn signs around town makes it clear that Ashland is filled with activists. It takes a lot of courage to be an activist, but for Peace Corps volunteers, it takes more than just…

By John Darling For the Tidings You might think it’s the norm for architects and builders to compete and keep to themselves but now, in Ashland’s Railroad District, we’re seeing them collaborate in the “Splinter Group,” so they can chat…

By Tran Nguyen Ashland Daily Tidings Customers of Ashland Fiber Network and its retail internet providers are getting an update that will double the currently-offered bandwidth with no extra fees by March 15, according to the city’s…