Our View: Reasons to test Alton Baker Park soil are growing

Oregon’s Medicaid program erroneously paid out as much as $4 million, audit says

The overpayments are a small fraction of what the state spends on its Medicaid program, but they could put federal funding at risk, state auditors warned.

Workers at public Oregon universities vote to strike

Members want higher cost of living raises and to preserve parts of their contract that universities have proposed removing or pausing.

Some Eugene residents do everything they can to fight progress | Letter to the editor

Chris Wig’s letter to the editor in Lookout got it right. Oregon’s new housing reforms exist for a reason, and the Laurel Hill Valley neighborhood’s opposition to the Floral Hill Terrace project shows exactly why they matter. DevNW proposed 40 affordable homes on land a Laurel Hill homeowner chose to sell for housing. The neighborhood […]

City Club of Eugene meeting to feature Ward 5 council candidates Clark and Aguiar

Friday’s meeting of the City Club of Eugene features the two contenders in the Nov. 3 election for the Ward 5 seat on the Eugene City Council: Athena Aguiar and Mike Clark.

EPA launches another multimillion-dollar cleanup at west Eugene's J.H. Baxter site

Cleanup crews are back at the polluted site on a fast-track to remove contaminated soil in the coming months. The expedited cleanup effort is happening in parallel with the site's long-term Superfund process, with more sampling planned this fall.