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LANE COUNTY, Ore. (April 27, 2026) — Oregon State Police executed coordinated search warrants early Friday morning, April 24, at two residences along Siuslaw River Road in southern Lane County, resulting in the arrest of two men following a months-long investigation involving illegal hunting activity, firearms violations, and trespassing.

A Eugene woman was hit and killed by a driver Saturday while trying to cross a road in Douglas County. Vivian Kutz, 40, was crossing from Grant Smith Road to Oregon 99 when she was hit, police said. Oregon State Police responded to the crash on Oregon 42 at the...

Eugene Emergency Physicians and additional plaintiffs had their first day in court April 27 over a lawsuit against PeaceHealth, ApolloMD, ApolloMD Business Services and Lane Emergency Physicians to stop contract changes in Lane County’s PeaceHealth emergency departments. The planned contract changes would replace EEP with Lane Emergency Physicians, an LLC owned and fully operated by an Illinois physician and managed by Georgia-based ApolloMD...

Federal immigration authorities have taken into custody a 32-year-old truck driver charged with manslaughter in the Highway 20 deaths of a Springfield couple in the Bend area. Rajinder Kumar is being held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington. The case highlights a clash between immigration authorities and...

Oregon guard Jamari Phillips hit the transfer portal this spring, and now, he's heading to one of the Ducks' former Pac-12 rivals.

EUGENE, Ore. — Witnesses took the stand Monday inside the Federal Court in Eugene as a lawsuit against PeaceHealth Oregon unfolded. Eugene Emergency Physicians, the local group that has provided Emergency Department physicians and physicians assistants to PeaceHealth Riverbend and PeaceHealth Cottage Grove over the last 35 years filed the lawsuit in March.

Crews from the City of Eugene will be removing a bigleaf maple tree at Washington Street and West Broadway from Tuesday April 28 through Wednesday April 29. One-way northbound traffic on Washington Street will be narrowed into a single lane from West Broadway Alley to West Broadway for the duration of the removal. Drivers may experience delays on Tuesday when both lanes will...

EUGENE, Ore. – A 37-year-old woman was cited for driving under the influence of intoxicants and reckless driving following a west Eugene crash early on Sunday, according to the Eugene Police Department. EPD officials said that they responded at 4:04 a.m. on April 26 to a single-vehicle crash at...

FALL CREEK, Ore. - A Fall Creek man was arrested more than three weeks after a motorcycle rider was seriously hurt in a hit-and-run crash, according to the Lane County Sheriff's Office. LCSO officials said that, just before midnight on April 5, sheriff's deputies responded with fire personnel to a...

EUGENE, Ore. - Police are investigating after someone fired shots in a wooded area near a Eugene park Friday evening, according to the Eugene Police Department. Eugene Police responded to Arrowhead Park at 3550 Arrowhead Street shortly after 5 p.m. on April 25. A man had been reported shooting a gun in a wooded area directly west of the park. Officers responded in emergency mode...