Eugene OR

EUGENE, OR — Drivers in south Eugene will see major disruptions on Hilyard Street this week as the City of Eugene begins a block-by-block reconstruction project that requires full road closures. With utility work now finished on south Hilyard Street, the city is reconstructing the roadway in two-block increments,...

Walk into Morning Glory Café, and you’ll immediately understand why this charming breakfast spot has been Eugene’s go-to morning destination for nearly three decades. Since opening in 1996, this beloved vegetarian and vegan haven serves up hearty, wholesome meals that prove plant-based eating can be both comforting and crave-worthy.

Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Calm wind becoming north northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.

It’s the kind of news one literally chokes on: the Eugene-Springfield area ranks in the top three worst metropolitan areas in the U.S. for air quality. The American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report puts the neighboring cities third worst for annual – and second worst – for 24-hour particle pollution.

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.