State orders Springfield schools to allow union access to teachers during prep time

‘We won’: UO workers celebrate last-minute deal that averted planned strike

Instead of spending Monday on the picket line, members of the union representing classified staff at the University of Oregon gathered outside Johnson Hall to celebrate a tentative contract agreement reached hours earlier.

Fire damages three homes in Oakridge

Firefighters from nine agencies responded early Sunday, Sept. 27, to blazes at three homes near one another in Oakridge.

$10 million mystery check from California union hangs over governor’s race

Locked in a dead heat, Kotek and Drazan will debate for the first time this election this coming Thursday, Oct. 1.

Emerald Broadband community spotlights: Eugene businesses thrive with local fiber

At Emerald Broadband, we love celebrating the local businesses and organizations that make Eugene such an awesome place to live and work. As a locally owned fiber internet company, we believe every local decision matters. When businesses, nonprofits, schools, and community organizations choose Emerald Broadband, they’re getting the best internet available while also helping to […]

The bitter irony in the push to open more forestland to logging

The more logging and roadbuilding upstream, the less good water in the creeks and the more water treatment downstream. Worse, new water purification plants are costly enough to strain small-town budgets, compromise the quality of life there, and even threaten their very existence.