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Oregon won’t comply with President Joe Biden’s directive to make all adults eligible for COVID-19 vaccines by May 1 unless the state receives enough vaccines to cover its most vulnerable residents first.

As cases continue to drop and the number of vaccinated residents grows, Lane County succeeded in slowing the spread of COVID-19 enough for the Oregon Health Authority to move the county from "high risk" to "moderate risk."

With a potential wave of evictions looming this summer, Lane County will soon distribute $4 million in state funding to help Covid-impacted renters.

5:09 A report on how internet has still not come back to areas burned in the Holiday Farm Fire in Sept. 2020.    Royal, John, and Katy Lewis do their online classes in their car because they can use the internet in the parking lot of the Christian Church in McKenzie Bridge. Credit Rachael McDonald    On a given day, you’ll see several cars in the parking lot outside the Christian Church along highway 126 in McKenzie Bridge. This is one of the few places you can get high speed internet. ...

Lane County’s official website is unavailable for the indeterminable future. It went down around 1:00pm Thursday.

If you have a spare bedroom, you could be part of the solution to Oregon’s housing crisis.  Home Share Oregon brings homeowners with empty rooms together with potential renters. The program uses an online matchmaking platform to let homeowners and renters vet each other to fill empty bedrooms.  The program and its supporters say it’s a way to chip away at the low supply of housing in the state.  Started in 2019 and associated with the Portland-based Oregon Harbor of Hope, Home Share has ...

New shelters for the unhoused popping up around Lane County Devon Ashbridge, Public Information Officer for Lane County, said these shelters are an important tool to keep the unhoused safe during the pandemic and the winter months. Posted: Dec 17, 2020 12:22 AM Updated: Dec 17, 2020 8:43 AM Posted By: Connor McCarthy EUGENE, Ore.-- Lane County is rolling out new emergency pallet shelters for the unhoused, with many delivered to locations in the Eugene-Springfield metro area on Wednesday, Dec. ...