Eugene OR

The upper McKenzie River, in Oregon, is a vast wilderness and a tourist fishing location for the past 100 years. Some 30% of the clean water in the Willamette River comes down the Mckenzie. In the latter part of the 19th century, gold mining and began and brought more people to the area. Then hot springs were found...

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission will meet Feb. 20 at the Lane County Armed Forces Readiness Center, 3106 Pierce Parkway in Springfield. The Commission will consider the following two agenda items: Commercial Dungeness crab fishery rules petition ODFW is expecting significant public interest in this agenda...

The air has gone cold in classic Eugene fashion. A morning fog leaves a layer of icy frost, and if we’re lucky, the sun peaks out for the early hours of the day. However, one item remains consistently warm, squished between a bun covered with a range of eclectic toppings: the hot dog.

Sean Joseph Lynn, a 32-year-old man arrested in 2024 after a fatal shooting north of Coburg, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter Monday, Jan. 26. Court records show a Lane County grand jury indicted Lynn on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the death of a Harrisburg man, 49-year-old Derrick...

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — Springfield community members are holding a public forum Wednesday night (Jan. 28) regarding the future of education in Springfield's public schools. The forum is hosted by the Community Alliance for Public Education. They're here to discuss SPS's elementary school curriculum. KVAL - 6 p.m....

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. - A fiery crash in Springfield resulted in multiple people being transported to the hospital on Tuesday afternoon. Emergency dispatch logs show emergency responders were dispatched at 4:07 p.m. on Jan. 28 to a motor vehicle crash with injuries in the area of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and Hayden...

A new affordable housing development in the works in Springfield will be called Sawyer Station as a nod to the city’s lumber heritage. That’s according to Darcy Phillips, executive director of Cornerstone Community Housing, the local affordable housing developer working on the project. Phillips said Sawyer Station...

EUGENE, Ore. — A Eugene woman at a crossroads in life faced the decision between addiction and homelessness or taking hold of the reins of her life to move toward wholeness. Shantel Rice would come to learn that her decision could not be executed in isolation, and it would become the spirit of collaboration that...

A pedestrian was found dead on Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway in Springfield after being struck by a vehicle on the morning of Thursday, Jan. 29, police said. Springfield police, in a statement, said its initial investigation found the deceased man intentionally put himself in front of moving vehicles in the roadway,...

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