Highway 99 closed after collision with pedestrian

UO coach, others honor Sweet Home teen who died after football injury

After Sweet Home High School student-athlete Mason Flores died Monday, Oct. 5, following a brain injury suffered in a junior-varsity football game against Marist Catholic High School, Oregon football head coach Dan Lanning and others memorialized the student.

PeaceHealth taps Heather Wall to be new chief executive for Oregon region

Heather Wall, named PeaceHealth’s interim chief executive for Oregon in April, assumes the job on a permanent basis. She succeeds Jim McGovern, who left the job after a tenure marked with controversy.

Eugene City Council candidate faces housing instability amid campaign

Athena Aguiar, who is running to represent north Eugene’s Ward 5, is currently campaigning from an Airbnb. She said she is living through the very housing affordability pressures she wants to address if elected.

Woman killed in collision with log truck northeast of Elmira

A 54-year-old Eugene woman died Monday, Oct. 5, when the pickup truck she was driving collided with a log truck on Territorial Highway about 4 miles northeast of Elmira.

Pedestrians and e-bikes on the same path. What could go wrong? | Letter to the editor

QuickTake: The 11 people now gardening at the River House Community Garden will be offered plots at the city's other community gardens, officials said. Rodents have also been a problem at the garden. As a regular cyclist using joint-use paths to get around town, I write this with great trepidation. There is a reason we […]