Eugene OR

EUGENE, Ore. - Families across the Eugene area spent Sunday outside celebrating Mother's Day under sunny skies. City officials say Hendricks Park typically sees 7,500 people on Mother's Day. For the second year, the Women's Advocacy Council for Youth (W.A.C.Y.), a young women's organization sponsored by the nonprofit O

Eugene Realtors co-sponsored a moderated panel discussion in April with the Black Cultural Initiative and Oregon Black Pioneers to discuss fair housing in Eugene as part of Fair Housing Month. This discussion was hosted at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History on the University of Oregon campus, where the...

Some electricity customers along the McKenzie River east of Springfield will be receiving bills from a new utility company this month. As of May 1, the Eugene Water & Electric Board transferred about 2,500 customers in McKenzie Valley to Lane Electric Cooperative. The affected area runs from the intersection of...

The recruiting trail just hit a dead end, and two of the biggest programs in the country are currently staring at a “No Vacancy” sign. For months, everyone wondered if the Miami Hurricanes or Oregon Ducks might have just enough to steal Ohio’s best prize, 5-star WR Jamier Brown. But after one big weekend in Columbus, t

Two Bend endurance athletes set a new speed record on the Willamette River in April in preparation for one of the world’s toughest paddling races. Chelsey Magness and Daniel Staudigel paddled 150.4-miles nonstop from Eugene to West Linn in a two-person kayak in 17 hours and 44 minutes in mid-April. They averaged nearly

A Eugene man was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 5 at the Highway 58 interchange on May 9. Richard Delbert Hemminger, 62, was driving southbound on I-5 in a Ford Explorer when he merged onto the Highway 58 offramp and left the eastbound shoulder of the roadway for unknown reasons, according to Oregon St

Lane Community College officials are proposing a general fund budget of about $113.1 million for the next academic year but warned members of its Budget Committee that LCC’s expenses are outpacing revenue. “So that means that our budget is really tight,” Jonathon Campbell, LCC’s senior director of budgets, grants...

Physicians sued their employer over plans to replace them with an out-of-state firm

Deann Sweeper’s favorite thing about her home in Lakewood Vista isn’t her view of the pond fountain at the center, or the geese nesting on its shore. It's the sense of community she’s built over eight years with her neighbors. She said now, Lakewood Vista is for...

LANE COUNTY, OR — Tyler Davis was found deceased near Lookout Reservoir east of Lowell on May 10 at about 1 p.m., after an extensive search involving multiple agencies and volunteer teams. Lane County Sheriff’s Search & Rescue volunteers from the Eugene Mountain Rescue team found Davis after traversing...