Introducing our three-part series examining food insecurity in Lane County

The Sunday Duck Report: The cost of doing business

The Ducks took heat for running up the score. Why do the Vikings keep signing up to play them?

Park(ing) Day turns public car spaces into community parks in downtown Eugene

Community members celebrated the 20th anniversary of Park(ing) Day by gathering in parking spaces for a craft circle and paint-by-numbers project. 

In the fall comes restorative fire: a photo essay 

The grass curled when a torch set it alight. Ash fell, fire freeing nutrients to the ground: a fertilizing gift to the next generation, as the last one gave to it.  Smoke rose under the September sun, turkey vultures circling.  The thatch crackled in the slow burn of 25 acres in a former hay field, […]

It’s a long road to understand someone, especially when they road-trip differently

My husband and I have learned to see life from each other’s inner perspective. His suggestion of taking a new route home on this trip felt like he understood and honored how I saw the world.

WinCo on Barger closed briefly Friday night due to ‘suspicious device’

Eugene police responded to WinCo Foods on Barger Drive the evening of Friday, Sept. 18, for what was determined to be a firework wrapped in duct tape.