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Lane County Commissioners voted 4-1 Tuesday to preserve transient lodging tax reserves, opting instead to use general fund reserves following public testimony from tourism and business leaders, including the Florence Area Chamber of Commerce. Commissioner Heather Buch cast the lone dissenting vote. Advocates said the d

Mattresses come into the facility and get broken down into its more easily recyclable components, as seen in this June 25, 2026 photo. Since the Mattress Stewardship Act went into effect in 2025, the Mattress Recycling Council has teamed up with partners like St. Vincent De Paul to recycle 130,000 mattresses in Oregon.

Eugene man arrested in string of stolen vehicle cases, hit-and-run investigation. A 25-year-old Eugene man has been arrested in connection with multiple stolen vehicle investigations, including a hit-and-run that seriously injured a bicyclist, according to the Eugene Police Department. Steven Ronald Fischer was lodged

Lane County officials are facing the prospect of making cuts and raising fees at the county’s network of 15 transfer stations, where rural residents take their trash. Lane County’s 15 transfer stations offer an alternative for residents who would otherwise rely on a commercial trash hauler or would have to take garbage

Fatal fire at Eugene fourplex leaves one dead, another hospitalized. The first crew to arrive found heavy fire coming from one unit of a two-story fourplex in Eugene's Churchill neighborhood. Firefighters encountered difficult conditions inside the building while searching for victims and battling the flames, prompting

Organizers of a Pride march in Oregon have canceled the event, citing concerns about violence, distrust of police, and what they described as a lack of support from law enforcement. Organizers of a Pride march in Oregon canceled amid concerns about violence and a lack of support from police. Eugene/Springfield...

Four Oregon cities see some of the highest rates of alcohol-induced deaths among adults older than 65 in the United States, according to a new report. Woodlands Grove Recovery Campus, an Ohio-based addiction treatment center, analyzed five years of federal mortality and population data to identify where alcohol-induced

Nadine Clocksin, 76, has been working at the Albertsons on Hilyard Street and 30th Avenue in Eugene since shortly after its opening in 1990. That’s 36 years. She says she still remembers memorizing item codes to punch into registers before bar-code scanners existed. She also remembers having to painfully...

Eugene police launched a Highway 99 traffic-safety crackdown on Thursday morning, focusing on speeding, distracted driving, and unsafe pedestrian behavior as part of the city’s Mission Zero effort to eliminate fatal crashes.