Despite the popularity of inflatable frogs, Ashland’s Halloween parade Friday was a seemingly endless stream of custom costumes.

Some people, including many Bay Area residents, go to Ashland, Oregon just to see plays. Other people go just to play. It's possible to do both while enjoying the scenic town set in a mountain valley.

Oregon took another step forward in its long legacy of recycling innovation Wednesday with the opening of the nation’s first free drop-off center for hard-to-recycle materials. The Circular Action ...