Eugene Budget Committee grapples with $11.5 million shortfall 

Do the math: An electric motorcycle won’t hit you like a truck | Letter to the editor

A heated debate has erupted over the safety of Oregon’s public ways — highways, streets, paths and trails. Boilerplate media coverage may leave the impression that electric-motorcycle riders, particularly young people, are the primary lethal threat to public safety. But is that where our attention should be focused? Oregon’s highly publicized youth fatalities have fueled […]

Virginia Morris

Virginia Morris, 75, died Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026. Andreason's Cremation & Burial Service is handling the arrangements.

Douglas McArthur Bilheimer

Douglas McArthur Bilheimer, 84, of Springfield, Oregon, died Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, at his home. Services will be held at 10 a.m., Nov. 20, 2026, at Sell Chapel in the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. Major Family Funeral Home of Springfield is handling the arrangements.

Joeann Revis Murphy

Joeann Revis Murphy, 93, of Eugene, died Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. She taught elementary school in Eugene for 30 years and moved back to the city after 2019. Musgrove Family Mortuary is handling the arrangements.

After his own diagnosis, fire chief to climb skyscraper for blood cancer research

Mike Caven, who is receiving treatment for blood cancer, will climb 69 flights of stairs in full gear for a fundraiser in March in Seattle.