Oregon Country Fair opens after nonconsensual recording arrest

Knights give UO $1 billion to create engineering college

The University of Oregon is getting a $1 billion donation from Phil and Penny Knight to create the Knight College of Engineering, according to an early-morning press release from the university. The donation is the largest “given to a comprehensive public university,” the release said. “To make an audacious dream a reality requires more than […]

Springfield officials make decisions about Glenwood property in redevelopment area

The city’s urban renewal agency board gave direction to staff to demolish a building in a riverfront area that is planned for a park.

Timber group, county association challenge lawsuit they say would disrupt ongoing BLM forest projects

The American Forest Resource Council and the Association of O&C Counties say rural communities depend on a decade-old resource management plan for 1.3 million acres in Oregon — that the lawsuit threatens to upend.

Flags fly at half-staff to honor fallen firefighter

Flags at state institutions are flying at half-staff Tuesday, Sept. 22, to honor firefighter Jesús Eduardo Olimpo Gutiérrez Toral, who died from injuries sustained while fighting the Austin Fire in the Mount Hood National Forest.

Heather Buch will keep corporate influence out of Lane County | Letter to the editor

Yes, dumping fees in Cottage Grove and other small towns in Lane County have risen. Why? Because Lane County does not use taxpayer money to operate Short Mountain landfill. To keep Lane County from making enough money in tipping fees — the amount garbage haulers pay to dump their trucks at a landfill, with the […]