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EUGENE, Ore. — The Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce is coming out in support of the City of Eugene's newly proposed stormwater fee. The proposed fee aims to help address part of the City's budgetary shortfall, increasing the stormwater fee by 18% - raising as much as $4.7 million in new revenue over the next 6 years.

Robert Sanchez is the new forest supervisor of Willamette National Forest, overseeing 1.6 million acres of one of Oregon’s most iconic and productive forests that has been recently impacted by wildfires and job cuts . The Willamette includes a wide swath of the Central Cascade forest, foothills and mountains east of...

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — Eugene Springfield Fire is on scene of a mobile home fire at 3998 Franklin Blvd in Glenwood. Firefighters were called to the Ponderosa Mobile Home Park shortly after 5 p.m. on Friday, May 23, to reports of a mobile home on fire. Crews arrived about 6...

Murphy Smith says he was unemployed for four years because of medical issues before becoming a rideshare driver in Eugene, Oregon. Driving allows him to work without triggering his severe asthma, Smith, 47, says. But without a set minimum wage, he says he works 12 to 16 hours a day to support himself. Smith, who’s […]

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — Some PeaceHealth employees are without a job after the healthcare provider announced a round of layoffs impacting two major Pacific Northwest hospitals, including PeaceHealth Sacred Heart RiverBend in Springfield and PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington. In an internal...

EUGENE, Ore. — Eugene Springfield Fire responded Thursday to 3648 N. Delta Highway for a cooking fire that was controlled with a residential sprinkler system. Officials say the resident was cooking and had a stovetop fire that spread up to the kitchen cabinets before being controlled by the sprinklers.

EUGENE, Ore. — Three suspects, including two teenagers, have been arrested in connection with the deaths of a man and a teenage girl in Eugene. On Tuesday evening, Lane County Sheriff’s Office detectives received a tip and discovered the bodies of a man and a teenage girl southeast of Oakridge. Police said their...

EUGENE, Ore. – The woman accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Eugene Weekly, a local newspaper, is no longer in police custody after Oregon Governor Tina Kotek’s office declined to pay for her extradition from Ohio. The Eugene Weekly reported earlier in May that...

LOWELL — Tuesday’s Lowell city council meeting was a short and sweet one. The mayor, city administrator and councilors were able to comb through the agenda at pace and consolidate the meeting in just under 40 minutes – a possible record. The city’s Beautification Day, which was...

EUGENE, Ore. — After Dezianna Patmon crushed a three-run, walk-off homer deep into the Eugene night to send her Ducks to the super regionals, the senior said her reason for doing so was simple. "I wasn't hanging up the cleats today." Patmon's homer to lift Oregon (51-8) past Stanford...