Highway 58

Crews are working to replace the Salt Creek Bridge on Highway 58, east of Oakridge, and the Oregon Department of Transportation is using something in the work zone that might not be familiar to drivers: automated flagger assistant devices.

An online news source in eastern Lane County is doing something many newspapers have stopped: The Highway 58 Herald is going to print.

Today the Lane County Sheriff’s office eased evacuation alerts in Westfir and western Oakridge to Level 1, Be Ready. Other eastern areas remain at Levels 2 and 3. The Cedar Creek fire has burned over 92,000 acres with no containment.

Evacuation levels have been eased once again in the Oakridge area.

A six-mile section of Oregon Highway 58 east of Oakridge will close for ten hours Wednesday, July 7, to allow crews to remove a semi-truck that crashed…

A landslide has closed Highway 58 between Lowell and Oakridge. A thousand yards of trees and debris are blocking the road. There is a detour on the west…

East of Eugene, Highway 58 from Lowell to Oakridge remains closed to regular traffic today (Wednesday). ODOT spokesman Lou Torres says it wasn’t until…

A utility company says a dead tree that fell on power lines appears to have caused a brush fire near Oakridge that destroyed a trailer and shut down lanes…

Updated Tuesday, May 19 at 3:45pmHighway 58 is open to traffic now that the overturned semi loaded with dairy products has been removed. The detour using…