Ashland News

When Southern Oregon University junior Montique Holman gets dressed in the morning, she slips into the closet of the dormitory room she shares with sophomore Stephen Williams.

Only half of homeowners in Ashland's hills - which the Siskiyou fire slashed through in September - have cleared enough vegetation to suitably protect their homes from a future blaze, a fire official said this week.

The unsanctioned party in the Ashland Plaza on Halloween night drew about 2,000 people but yielded fewer arrests than last year and no major incidents, police said this morning.

The Ashland School Board on Monday will discuss enacting a tax on all new-construction building permits taken out within the district.

It was not unusual for Kipp Crawford to be out pedaling his bicycle at 2 a.m., his mother, Jean Crawford of Ashland says.

Vigorous opposition by restaurant owners who must collect it was unable to stop renewal tonight of Ashland's 5 percent tax on prepared food and beverages.

Two elections today in Ashland and Rogue River. In Ashland, residents voted on a 5 percent meal tax.

A 27-year-old man, whose name has not been released, is believed to be alone inside the house in the 600 block of South Mountain Avenue, Ashland Police Chief Terry Holderness said at 9:20 a.m. No one was injured when the shot was fired from inside the house, according to the Ashland Police Department.

Nearly 40 percent of voters in Ashland and Rogue River had cast ballots as of noon today in Tuesday's election.

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Jackson County Elections Division officials said fewer than 30 percent of Ashland voters had turned in their ballots by 2 p.m. Thursday.

MEDFORD - A man charged with stabbing a Medford woman along Interstate 5 in May 2005 has been returned to Jackson County after spending years in Mexico as a fugitive.

From left, Anya Ludwig, Yeruti Estigarribia, Nayeon Kim, Jasmine Terry-Shindelman, and Sadie Shelton.

The man suspected of stabbing a Medford woman along Interstate 5 near Ashland in May 2005 is back in Jackson County to face a murder charge after spending years on the run in Mexico.

Business representatives who have organized to fight Ashland's 5 percent meals tax said the city of Ashland could sell its 829-acre Imperatrice property and also use hotel tax money to help pay off sewer treatment plant debt, rather than asking for the tax's renewal or raising sewer bills.

An air tanker stationed in Medford was preparing to return to its home base in Redmond just as the Siskiyou Fire started near Ashland on Sept.

An Ashland Parks and Recreation employee found two bloody latex gloves and a substantial amount of blood smeared across a picnic table Monday morning in Sherwood Park, police said.

An Oregon company that makes electric motorcycles thinks it has a home-grown solution to the nation's energy woes.

Facing a predicted drop in snowpack of as much as 50 percent, the city plans to launch a two-year study on potential new sources of drinking and irrigation water for its residents.

An Ashland man who chased a prowler for about a mile - while barefoot - and held him until police arrived received an award from the mayor this month for his actions.