14+ hour, 42+ min ago   (237+ words) The Corvallis School Board has voted to send a local option levy renewal to the November ballot. In 2006, voters first approved the current local option levy, at a rate of $1.50 per $1,000 of assessed property value. Local option levies can only…...

10+ hour, 33+ min ago   (319+ words) The Texas company that bought Arcimoto’s assets last month says it’s almost ready to open a service center for the electric vehicle brand in Eugene. Eugene-based company Arcimoto stopped making its quirky, three-wheeled vehicles more than three years ago. But…...

14+ hour, 59+ min ago   (177+ words) On Friday, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission revised rules to strengthen the department’s efforts to reducing whale entanglements in Oregon’s Dungeness crab fishery. The revised rules include electronic vessel monitoring, including the installation of devices that provide…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1343+ words) Rumors that crews have been clearing land alongside U.S. Highway 101 just south of Lincoln City to build a Costco are greatly exaggerated. The project is spearheaded by the MidCoast Watersheds Council and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which say that beyond…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (98+ words) NPR for Oregonians Mugzy Slugzy crowned Eugene's 44th S.L.U.G. Queen The Society for the Legitimization of the Ubiquitous Gastropod crowned Mugzy Slugzy as Eugene's 44th S.L.U.G. Queen on Friday. For her competition act, Slugzy played the ukulele and sang a song about loving yourself,…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (883+ words) Hundreds of Afghans who fought alongside U.S. troops and supported the U.S. government in Afghanistan are now worried their green cards could be revoked. In Afghanistan, their efforts ranged from custodial jobs at the U.S. embassy, to technology and engineering roles with U.S. contractors…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (104+ words) The Eugene Family YMCA will re-open Saturday after a day-long closure Friday due to safety concerns. YMCA executive staff told KLCC that it is evaluating additional safety protocols for the re-opening “out of an abundance of caution.” A news release…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (139+ words) NPR for Oregonians Firefighters urge caution after compost catches fire near Hendricks Park Eugene Springfield Firefighters say they put out a small fire that spread from a compost pile Friday near Hendricks Park in Eugene. Firefighters received multiple calls around…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (168+ words) Oregon transportation officials are urging drivers to pay attention, slow down, and give space in work zones on state freeways and highways. That's after a tragic crash earlier this week. A stranded driver was killed and an Oregon Department of…...

3+ day, 52+ min ago   (461+ words) As Oregon’s ambitious gun restrictions were stuck in legal limbo, gun sales surged across the state, according to new research published this week. Measure 114 would ban high-capacity gun magazines and require more training and backgrounding of prospective gun owners, but…...