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Members of the Louisiana Philharmonic recently gathered in Nashville for their first post-Katrina performance. The concert was a fundraiser organized by the Nashville Symphony.

Up until recently, the likely composers of the great American symphony looked remarkably similar: all white, overwhelmingly male. But recent developments have opened up the doors to composers who were once lost to history.

The sounds of spring have changed, and not because they need to. The mechanization of landscaping has removed the rake, broom, and hand lawnmower from our vocabulary, and replaced them with blowers, power mowers, and string trimmers.

The 57th annual Oregon Country Fair kicks off this Friday along the Long Tom River in Veneta.

Vinyl record, CD and cassette sales are growing. What does a resurgence in buying music mean for the shops that carry them?

Cottage Grove's Community Sharing Program grew from a food pantry into a full service center. Director Mike Fleck on food, housing, energy and water aid in South Lane County.

A locally based group of doctors who staff PeaceHealth’s emergency departments has issued an open letter to the community.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting grants don't just go to NPR or PBS affiliates. They can be a key budget piece for smaller, community stations, including two in Eugene.

In 1924, a 17-year-old girl was admitted to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. The superintendent of the colony classified her as "feeble-minded of the lowest grade, moron class." With that designation, this girl, Carrie Buck, was set on a path she didn't choose. What happened next laid the foundation for the forced sterilization of tens of thousands of people. This week, we revisit a 2018 episode about the eugenics movement and one of the most tragic social experiments in American history.

Students, staff and faculty at Lane Community College in Eugene are participating in the Common Read—a project that aims to connect people on campus through reading one book together.