Lane County

The Lane Regional Air Protection Agency wants to turn fines into initiatives that benefit the environment.

Lane County’s jail deflection program celebrated its four newest graduates at a ceremony in Eugene Friday.

Howard Buford Recreation Area hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new trail near the east entrance of the park Friday.

Lane County is looking to open a new clinic in Florence to help treat opioid addiction.

Lane County’s deflection program has deflected more than 170 people away from the courts so far. But many of its clients could still end up facing criminal charges.

Lane County has a new sheriff. Carl Wilkerson, a thirty-year veteran with the Lane County Sheriff’s Department, was sworn in Wednesday.

A low-income veterinary clinic in Pleasant Hill plans to shut down at the end of this month unless it can locate more funding.

How important are travel and tourism to Lane County’s economy in general? What might the future hold? In this program, two professionals who pay close attention to economic development will describe how tourism contributes to the local community now and hear their predictions about the effects of tourism from the coast to the Cascades in the next 10 years.

Middle schoolers from across Lane County gathered in Eugene Thursday to show off and race battery-powered cars.

In the ‘80s and ‘90s, LGBTQ periodicals and magazines often did the important legwork for their community.

Carl Wilkerson, the current acting sheriff, is the only qualified person who applied.

The Eugene 4J School District has found a potential buyer for a vacant bank it purchased last year that it had hoped to turn into its new headquarters.