Living Here

In these days of murderous rampages in Roseburg and Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., and elsewhere, it’s worth noting that mass murder — and terrorism — are not new. Steven…

SPRINGFIELD — The gray T-shirt with the green lettering gives him away. “World’s Best Kidney Donor (and brother),” it says across Derek Hadley’s chest. If not a fact, if not…

In a world that sometimes seems to have gone mad, Mary Ellen Yost is a throwback to a simpler time. She is a piano teacher. For almost a half century,…

In her 1993 book, “Stubborn Twig,” University of Oregon journalism professor Lauren Kessler describes what life was like for Minoru Yasui after he was taken to the Multnomah County Jail…

The beginning of what could have been the end came in the dead of a typically cold January night in the northeast corner of the state. “She was laying on…

Joanne Reyeg guides a supine Crystal Lee through the 92-degree, solar-heated saltwater pool at the Tamarack Wellness Center in south Eugene. “It helps her relax,” Reyeg says of Lee, 29,…

Think you have a cool Halloween costume? Here’s guessing it doesn’t blow smoke. Not literally, anyway. As “awesome” as Hunter Powers feels about his custom-made costume, though, most kids don’t…

Whether you are mad or glad that the “flying people” are gone from the Eugene Airport, you can see them now simply by visiting Lane Community College between 8 a.m….

JASPER — “There is honor in meeting and overcoming life’s challenges.” This is what Greg Ahlijian has the children say, every Thursday, after he says good morning to them in…