Willamette River

The Benton County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) has identified the man found deceased in the Willamette River last month, as 34-year-old Jonathan Avery Smith of Albany.

The Benton County Sheriff’s Office is asking for public help in identifying a man found dead in the Willamette River last month.

The city of Eugene has acquired an 8-acre piece of property as part of a land exchange with the University of Oregon. It’s along the Willamette River near the city’s new Riverfront Park.

The park is among several new construction projects coming to the 20-acre former EWEB headquarters site.

Search and rescue crews saved several people from Lane County area waterways over the weekend.

With the recent hot weather, Oregon’s cool lakes and rivers are a great way to cool off. But they are also dangerous.

According to the Register Guard, Amy Hastie died after being taken to the hospital on the evening of July 3.

Officials said callers reported that a vehicle was floating away and that a woman was trapped inside.

A 21-acre swath of property along the Willamette River in Glenwood is one step closer to being an official part of the City of Springfield.

The Tuesday episode of the long-running game show had a category filled with clues about places and names familiar to Oregonians.

It’s a great time to go fishing in Western Oregon. But recent runs of coho salmon have set a record … and … spawned a mystery.

A conservation group in Springfield has won $8.5 million in federal funding, which will pay for floodplain restorations along the Willamette River and its tributaries.