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On Saturday afternoon, Mohawk Valley Fire and Sweet Home Fire responded to an out-of-control brush fire in the Marcola area that spread to consume a nearby RV.

Market of Choice has completed its acquisition of Basics Market in Portland’s Hillsdale neighborhood, adding a fifth location in the Portland metro area and bringing the company’s total statewide footprint to 13 stores. The transition to Market of Choice is expected to take place on June 23, with no store closure antic

Campus safety alerts are usually about storms, outages, crashes, or urgent police activity. Now, the University of Oregon is using its UO Alerts system for another kind of campus notice: confirmed federal immigration enforcement activity. The move follows Oregon House Bill 4079, which requires public schools and public

EUGENE, Ore. - Protesters gathered Saturday outside the Nike store at 5th Street Market in downtown Eugene as part of the 'Just Sign It' campaign against Nike. Oregon educators called for billionaires like Phil Knight to pay higher taxes as school districts face major layoffs and cuts. Protesters also rallied at Portla

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