In the span of several days during March 2023, Josh Loew and his wife experienced a whirlwind of life-changing events: The New Jersey couple got engaged, got married, and organized a baby shower an…
It’s 6:30 am. The smell of home-cooked bacon, eggs and hashbrowns forms in the kitchen, eventually wafting around the corner and into the two floors of dorm rooms. There, 50 groggy high schoolers s…
A four-strand barbed-wire fence runs north to south down the middle of the desert flat in the empty Catlow Valley, splitting the town of Blitzen in two. Or at least what used to be Blitzen, before …
In August, Eugene School District 4J’s board of directors was accused of
violating public meetings law by holding meetings via text and other messages —
aka discussing school business without other…
After a year and a half of remote learning, students across Lane County are back
in school full time, masked up and socially distanced. But while trying to
mitigate COVID-19 cases, school district…
Helen Being — aka Queen Galaxia Cosmos — dreamed of being crowned the Eugene
SLUG queen ever since they were eight years old. Being first saw a SLUG queen
(Society of the Legitimization of the Ubi…
As the COVID-19 Delta variant continues to spread, one Roseburg doctor is turning to the medication ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug, to help patients recover, despite it not being approved by th…
Agustin Cisneros was nine years old the first time he rode a horse and rounded up cattle. He was in Mexico, on his grandfather’s ranch near Guadalajara when his father placed him on a horse and tol…
After COVID-19 restrictions were lifted in June, experts warned that illnesses
such as the common cold would begin spreading again. So when I came down with
what I figured was a cold, I still wante…
There are two things in life that Oregonians undeniably love: the great outdoors
and great local beer. The best part is that there is no shortage of those things
in Oregon, especially in Lane Count…
By Henry Houston and Taylor Perse The May 18 special election didn’t have the national or state policy stakes of the two 2020 elections, but the results did bring some diversity to local education…