Eugene OR

EUGENE — Parenting Now has been helping families in Lane County navigate the challenges of raising children for nearly five decades, providing parenting education, home-visiting services, coaching and support groups. The Eugene nonprofit works with families from the time children are born through age 17, with a primary

Some restaurants get remembered for what’s on the plate. This one gets remembered for both the plate and the building holding it. Character seeps out of every corner here, worn wood, quirky details, the kind of charm you can’t manufacture no matter how big the renovation budget. Regulars mention the atmosphere almost a

Beginning in the Western Cascade Mountains and coursing northward where it empties into the Columbia River, the Willamette River feeds one of the most fertile valleys in the Pacific Northwest and is home to the state's premier wine region just as scenic as Napa Valley without the crowds. The valley stretches roughly fr

When celebrity comedian John Mulaney was in Eugene earlier this year, he stopped into J. Michaels Books downtown and walked out with a stack of eight books, including a modern Hollywood-set noir, a biography of a forgotten French-Belarusian painter and the increasingly surreal tale of a whaling ship. Since Mulaney’s...

Eugene police say they arrested a man for violating a ‘no contact’ order less than a day after it was signed.

No one appeared to be injured after a vehicle went down an embankment near Cottage Grove on Friday night. A Douglas County Sheriff’s Office report said at 11:00 p.m. a man was in the 4500 block of Territorial Highway driving towards Curtin when he lost control of his pickup and it went off the road and down thirty yard

A Eugene police officer provided “some warning” to a man in handcuffs before punching him and shocking him with a Taser, the city said Friday, Sept. 4, in reply to an excessive force lawsuit. Jehoshaphat Commandest filed the lawsuit seeking up to $1 million after a Jan. 11,...

Three Oregon-based businesses have been recognized on Time magazine’s list of “America’s Best Private Companies.” Partnering with data analytics firm Statista, the magazine identified the 500 top-performing private businesses across the United States. To assemble the rankings, the magazine asked 217,000 employees of pr

A weekly compilation of the largest winning bids in the Pacific Northwest, according to the Daily Journal of Commerce Project Center. Winner (intent to award): RiverBend Materials of Eugene. Amount: $1,896,282. Project: Cuthbert Amphitheater Site Improvements (Eugene) Owner: city of Eugene. Cost estimate: not available

A 40-unit affordable housing development proposed for Eugene’s Laurel Hill neighborhood is facing early opposition from neighbors. Nonprofit housing developer DevNW wants to build a mix of townhomes and single-family detached homes on 3.89 acres east of Floral Hill Drive, a subdivision called Floral Hill Terrace. House