Eugene OR

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has appointed two new judges to Lane County’s Circuit Court. Last year, Kotek signed a bill upping the number of Lane County judges from 15 to 17. On Friday, she announced she was choosing Jessica May and Allison Knight to fill the new seats. Knight,...

1. Coquine – Portland, OR. Coquine feels like a neighborhood secret that everyone shares, tucked near Mt. Tabor with a pantry-minded soul. You taste stone fruit in summer sorbets, charred alliums in fall, and greens so lively they almost crunch back. The kitchen channels farmers’ rhythms into quiet, confident plates...

As the newspaper industry struggles to survive, two publications in east Linn County are merging in hopes of better serving their communities and surrounding areas. The Sweet Home New Era and the Lebanon Local, published by Scott Swanson and his wife Miriam, have combined as one weekly newspaper as of Jan. 1.

You can almost hear the iconic steel guitar and Merle Haggard's voice: "Silver Wings. Shining in the sun."

An ad hoc subcommittee of the Lane Community College Board of Education took a first crack Friday, Jan. 2, at a three-year plan proposed by college administrators to cut spending by $8 million over the next three school years. The subcommittee — board Chair Austin Fölnagy, Vice Chair Jerry Rust...

The city of Florence, Oregon, will hold a townhall style meeting Monday about whether to continue using private company Flock’s automatic license plate reader cameras. Eugene, Springfield and Lane County suspended their contracts with Flock last month, after months of public outcry. Some Florence residents, such as...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Oregon – Low clouds clung to the Willamette Valley early this morning as rain darkened pavement and softened the hills around Eugene. The air felt heavy and damp, and conditions remain unsettled as a wet...

After she was located, search and rescue volunteers provided medical care for hypothermia, then carried her to a waiting ambulance, where she was taken to a hospital.

Sometimes the most extraordinary culinary experiences come wrapped in the most unassuming packages, and GJ’s Family Restaurant in Eugene, Oregon is the living, breathing, egg-flipping proof of that philosophy. You know that feeling when you’re driving through a town and suddenly your stomach growls with the ferocity...

After two years as a mobile coffee bar in Eugene, Oregon’s Whiteaker neighborhood, Kōhi Time recently rolled into its first brick-and-mortar space inside the Union on Broadway student apartment complex. The modest 270-square-foot, playfully designed cafe gives founder and owner Genelle Izumi plenty of interaction...