District attorney rules fatal shooting at Walmart was self-defense

One way to support the homeless? Showing compassion. | Letter to the editor

Homelessness started a long time ago, when we stopped providing housing and services and forced people “on the street.” You can look back to Ronald Reagan and his brutal cutting of social services, or the ending of “welfare as we know it” under Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich. But the bottom line is we have […]

Man arrested in Washington after woman found dead at home they shared in Eugene

The woman, Yuvonne Allison, was found stabbed to death by deputies and detectives responding to a request for a "welfare check" at a home in the River Road neighborhood.

Article on Oregon's teacher preparation programs didn't match the facts

Reducing effective literacy instruction to a checklist — and judging entire programs by whether their syllabi match that checklist — misses what experienced educators know: Teaching reading is complex.

Things to do: See a New Orleans jazz-funk phenom, a Eugene-born ’90s rocker and Shakespeare in one weekend

Also: Build a light-up getup ahead of the BRiGHT Parade, remember a famous forest blockade and hear two artist talks in one night at The Hybrid Gallery

Ex-UO student’s excessive force claims against police allowed to move forward

A judge denied a claim of qualified immunity, finding that a “reasonable officer” would know that using “substantial force for a nonviolent misdemeanor” is unlawful.