Jackson County Oregon News

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is back in Ashland. We’re here to give you the details on what you need to know and how to attend. Due to declining attendance back in 2022, you may notice that the OSF is a bit trimmed this year. Which…

Smoke may seem to be all that’s on everyone’s minds, but for fasters in the #Hungry4Justice hunger strike currently in Ashland it reinforces the message of their fight. Faster Dot Fisher-Smith, an Ashland resident with a long history of…

Ashland New Plays Festival will present four playwrights’ new works at its 27th annual festival from Oct. 17–21 at the Unitarian Center, 87 Fourth St., in Ashland. The winners are: • Ian August for “The Excavation of Mary Anning.”…

Protesters gathered outside a property management company in Ashland Monday to demonstrate against rental price increases that they say amount to greed. “I say greed is horrible,” said McKenna Smith, a student at Southern Oregon…

When recreational marijuana becomes legal for commercial sale on Thursday, no one seems sure if it will unleash a cascade of pot tourism in Ashland, which not only is already a tourist destination but is also the first city on the road from…