Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-03-12
Coos County Woman Arrested After Allegedly Assaulting Her Boyfriend Crime & Courts By Lucille McNamara On Mar 12, 2025 A 45-year-old Coos County woman is in jail for allegedly trying to strangle her boyfriend during a domestic altercation on Monday night. A Coos County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) deputy responded to a call at 8.30 p.m. on Monday. A man told dispatchers that his girlfriend had assaulted and strangled him while their child was present. The deputy went to a home in Crown Point Road
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-09
Oregon Sends Massive Firefighting Backup to Neighboring California Top Stories By Lucille McNamara On Jan 9, 2025 Last updated Jan 9, 2025 Clackamas County strike team | Courtesy: Oregon State Fire Marshal Eighteen firefighting strike teams from Oregon will arrive in Los Angeles today (Thursday) to help quell the disastrous wildfires that have destroyed the California Palisades, killing at least five people and continuing to spread. 310 Firefighters and 90 Engines The backup force consist
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-09
Portland Police Criticized by the Oregon DOJ for Delaying Investigations into the 2020 Racial Unrest Protests Crime & Courts By Lucille McNamara On Jan 9, 2025 FILE - The Oregon Department of Justice building in Salem - October 2024 | Photo by Seth Smigelski The Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) has criticized the Portland Police Bureau for the protracted delay of investigations into the improper use of force by officers during the city’s racial unrest protests in 2020. Police Accuse
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-08
Drug Use on Oregon’s Public Buses and Trains is Now Punishable with Jail and a Hefty Fine News By Lucille McNamara On Jan 8, 2025 FILE - TriMet Light Rail in Portland, Oregon | Photo by Seth Smigelski Public transport users should take note that a new law classifying the use of illicit drugs while in transit is a Class A misdemeanor that came into effect in Oregon on January 1. Anyone found guilty faces a year in jail, a fine of $6,250, or both. The use of illicit drugs in transit is also design
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-09
BLM Invites Public Input For Southeast Oregon’s Bridge Creek Livestock Management Allotment News By Diane Megaw On Jan 9, 2025 Last updated Jan 9, 2025 Rangelands in Eastern Oregon. BLM photo. The Bureau of Land Management for Oregon and Washington (BLM) is seeking public input on the draft environmental impact statement for the Southeast Oregon Bridge Creek Area Allotment Management Plans, which propose several alternatives for livestock management and related actions. A notice will be is
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-12
Oregon Metro Government Slashes Homeless Services Budgets by $51 million News By Lucille McNamara On Jan 12, 2025 Homeless encampment, Oregon. The Oregon Metro Government budget for homeless services in Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington counties has been slashed by $51 million for the current fiscal year. The Supportive Housing Services (SHS) tax was introduced in 2020 to fund homeless services following the post-COVID global societal impact. Metro introduced a 1% taxation program for individ
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-06
Harvesting Wild Spring Chinook On Mainstem Umpqua River Temporarily Banned Environment By Diane Megaw On Jan 6, 2025 A fall-run Chinook Salmon seen on Oct. 16, 2024, in a tributary of the Klamath River after removal of the dams marking the first fish to return since 1916. Photo by Mark Hereford, ODFW. | Courtesy: ODFW DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ore. — On Friday, the Oregon Department of Fisheries and Wildlife (ODFW) announced that wild spring Chinook salmon harvest on the mainstem Umpqua River will be proh
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-08
Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Plan Approved By BLM Oregon & Washington News Environment By Diane Megaw On Jan 8, 2025 Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument | Courtesy: Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approved and issued the resource management plan and Record of Decision for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument for Oregon and Washington yesterday. The plan incorporates public input through several public meetings and a 90-day public co
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-07
‘The Goonies’ Returns To Oregon Theaters This January Movies & TV By Bernadette Obrien On Jan 7, 2025 The Goonies (1985) One of the top 10 greatest movies filmed in Oregon , The Goonies, first released in 1985, is returning to big screens for its 40th anniversary. ‘The Goonies’ Events In Oregon The Oregon-filmed adventure has attracted a lot of attention over the last 40 years, including a regular flow of tourists who flock to Astoria, where classics like The Ring and The Mortuary Col
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-06
Oregon Woman Faces Manslaughter and DUI Charges Following Death of an Elderly Speech Therapist Crime & Courts By Lucille McNamara On Jan 6, 2025 A woman from Portland who allegedly killed an 82-year-old speech therapist in a two-car collision while under the influence was arrested on Thursday by the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office. According to court records, Rosa Victalina Hitzfeld (59) allegedly killed the elderly woman, Marcia Abbate, on October 13, 2024. Abbate, from California, was vi
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-12-04
Medford Police Arrest Six Shoplifters Crime & Courts By Diane Megaw On Dec 4, 2024 Medford Police, Southern Oregon MEDFORD, Ore. — A recent statement by the Medford Police Department (MPD) indicates that six people were arrested in a targeted retail theft enforcement operation last month. Partnering with Kohls, MPD proactively stopped theft. A grant from the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission supported the detail. Aside from stopping shoplifters, the initiative encouraged and protected the r
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-08
Oregon Republicans to Stop Utility Companies from Increasing Rates to Customers Embroiled in Wildfire Lawsuits News Politics & Elections By Lucille McNamara On Jan 8, 2025 Last updated Jan 8, 2025 Copperfield Fire near Chiloquin - Klamath county, Oregon Three Oregon Republican State Representatives are proposing a bill to prevent utility companies from increasing rates to customers embroiled in long-standing lawsuits involving the cost of wildfire culpability. Their proposal follows an annou
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-06
Roseburg Man Dies in Single Vehicle Accident News By Diane Megaw On Jan 6, 2025 ROSEBURG, Ore. — Responding to 911 dispatchers, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) attended a single-vehicle crash scene on Looking Glass Road near Happy Valley Road on Friday at around 8.00 pm. Police discovered 56-year-old Roseburg resident Chane Rhae Johnsen unconscious in a 2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse vehicle and established that he had been traveling north on Looking Glass Road. The Winston Police Depa
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-05
Train Car Lands In River Outside Corvallis After Mary’s River Bridge Collapses News By Diane Megaw On Jan 5, 2025 Courtesy: Corvallis Police Department CORVALLIS, Ore. — Police and firefighters from the Corvallis Fire Department responded to reports that a train car operated by Portland & Western Railroad (PNWR) had derailed around 12:08 p.m. on Saturday after the bridge over the Marys River in Corvallis collapsed. The incident destabilized two other train cars. Corvallis Police indica
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-07
Police May Add Bias Crime Charges Against Truck Driver Who Crashed Into Salem Convenience Store News By Diane Megaw On Jan 7, 2025 Dallas, Oregon, police are considering additional charges against a man who drove his pickup truck through the front doors of the Salem-area Center Market convenience store on Saturday night before driving around inside, smashing through shelves, and destroying merchandise in the shop owned by the Singh family. The suspect was later identified as John Louis Marlas, 3
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-07
Oregon Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Jail: Prosecutors Suspect His Younger Brother Pulled the Trigger Crime & Courts By Lucille McNamara On Jan 7, 2025 Keyshawn Pervish (23) of Portland has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for the killing of a 17-year-old youth, and prosecutors suspect that it was his younger brother who pulled the trigger. Pervish pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter for the death of Sergio Hunt in 2021. Hunt Became Annoyed When Pervish Paid Attention to His
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-03
Providence Health Workers Strike Looms As Oregon Nurses Call for Intervention News By Diane Megaw On Jan 3, 2025 Providence Medford Medical Center With 5,000 Oregon healthcare workers poised to strike on January 10, the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) urged elected officials to intervene in the labor dispute on Thursday, as Providence Health & Services still refuses to negotiate with the workers. Providence Health Workers Call For Intervention Before Planned Strike Less than two weeks
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-04
Up To $60,000 Reward For Reporting Bly Wolves Poaching in Oregon News Environment By Diane Megaw On Jan 4, 2025 Male wolf from Wenaha pack | Courtesy: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Significant rewards are being offered for reporting Bly wolf poaching following a grey wolf poaching incident near Bly. Several wolf poachings have rewards for information about suspected poachers, and the Bly incident has the highest reward, which was announced by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-02
Rural Oregon Unsheltered Homelessness is Increasing News By Lucille McNamara On Jan 2, 2025 FILE - Homeless encampment, Grants Pass, Oregon - 2023. The number of homeless people living out in the open is increasing rapidly in rural areas of Oregon, more so than in cities. The finding arises from an annual people count of homelessness in the state, known as the Point In Time (PIT) count required by the federal government’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The count helps authori
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-01-04
A Pride Caucus Within the Oregon School Boards Association Fails to Gather Enough Support Education By Lucille McNamara On Jan 4, 2025 A plan to create a Pride Caucus within the Oregon School Boards Association (OSBA) has fallen flat after a two-year campaign. Victory Would Have Given a Voice to LGBTQ+ Oregon school boards were asked to vote on a proposal to give a voice to LGBTQ+ school board members, students, and staff across that state’s educational system. The proposal required a two