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LANE COUNTY, Ore. — As temperatures hovered around 40 degrees Monday evening, the Lane County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) received an urgent search and rescue call. Karen Davis, 82, had gone missing from her home on Warthen Road in Elmira. With overnight temperatures expected to dip into the 30s, the...

Restaurants in Eugene-Springfield come and go throughout the year. In 2025, our community lost some great restaurants, bars and food trucks. One particularly painful loss was longtime campus coffee staple, Espresso Roma , which was razed to make way for a new housing development. All of the places on this list will...

There’s a place in Eugene where shopping carts become treasure chests and thirty dollars stretches like saltwater taffy on a summer day. St. Vincent de Paul’s Division Avenue location isn’t just another thrift store – it’s a bargain hunter’s paradise where your wallet stays fat while your shopping cart fills to the...

After a decade of ongoing redevelopment at the Shoppes at Gateway, formerly known as Gateway Mall, Jones Lang LaSalle, an advisor to mall owners Balboa Retail Partners, announced the shopping center is up for sale. Along with the announcement, real estate brokers gave a peek at what is and what may be coming to the...

EUGENE, Ore. - A small fire broke out overnight at the River Avenue Navigation Center in Eugene, prompting a swift response from fire and police crews. The Eugene-Springfield Fire Battalion Chief reported that the fire was contained to a locker in the residential area of the center. Firefighters managed to extinguish...

The Museum of Natural and Cultural History, tucked behind the University of Oregon Law School, receives a little over half its operating budget from the university. As budget cuts swept across campus in the fall, the museum’s capacity and behind the scenes operations were more impacted than the public facing parts of...

Lane County’s outgoing chair outlined his vision for how the region should address its housing crisis during the annual State of the County address Monday. Chair David Loveall argued Lane County’s building department should do what it can to reduce and simplify building fees. Loveall, who is a...

EUGENE, Ore. — Lane County held its annual State of the County address Monday, with Board of Commissioners Chair David Loveall expressing the need to improve public safety and countywide funding in the coming year. The majority of the county's funding, at 60 percent, comes from state and federal...

Damon Petrie, 60, last seen Dec. 15; sheriff’s office asks public to report tips. Authorities are seeking the public’s help in locating a 60-year-old Eugene man who has been missing since mid-December. Damon Petrie was last seen Dec. 15 but was not reported missing until Dec. 18, according...

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. - Doug Koke, a local business leader whose contributions to the printing industry and the University of Oregon community passed away on New Years Eve, according to staff with QSL Print Communications. Doug dedicated his life to printing, continuing a family legacy that began in Eugene in 1907....