Mapleton

Parts of Mapleton were placed under a boil water notice Friday.

Highway 126 re-opened to traffic Thursday evening.

The Trump administration’s on-again, off-again federal funding freeze sowed widespread anxiety and confusion across the country and around Oregon. In Mapleton, locals feared a delay in federal grant payments would jeopardize efforts to rebuild their failing water system.

In 2023, damage from a severe winter storm nearly took out the entire water supply system of Mapleton. Recently, the unincorporated community 15 miles east of Florence received a federal grant to make some permanent repairs.

Mapleton residents are still under a boil water order since a water main leak last week. The problem-plagued Mapleton Water District was dealing with faulty equipment and the leak caused a loss in pressure.

An "Ultimate" team from South Eugene is one of the first high school club teams in Oregon, if not the first, to welcome cis, nonbinary, and transgender athletes to play together.But that gender diversity has not always been welcome by the team's opponents.

People in the unincorporated Lane County community of Mapleton are once again without running water.

People in the western Lane County community of Mapleton will have to do without tap water for the next couple of days.

There are over a dozen wildfires burning around Oregon, many of them fairly contained.The largest one – the Indian Creek Fire – is in the eastern part of…

There are over a dozen wildfires burning around Oregon, many of them fairly contained.The largest one – the Indian Creek Fire – is in the eastern part of…

There are over a dozen wildfires burning around Oregon, many of them fairly contained.The largest one – the Indian Creek Fire – is in the eastern part of…

There are several wildfires burning around Oregon, many of them fairly contained.The largest one – the Indian Creek Fire – is in the eastern part of the…