The heavily-used Harrisburg bridge that crosses the Willamette River is built the same way as the bridge that collapsed Thursday in Washington state. ODOT said a collapse is a possibility, as Harrisburg is one of more than 300 bridges in Oregon that are "fracture critical."
Business members and the Springfield Citizen's Advisory Committee spent Thursday night walking along Main St. charting the darkest sections of sidewalk and speculating on the best places for lights for a demonstration streetlight project they are working toward.
Heightened environmental standards of inbound waste shipments to China known as "Operation Green Fence" are hurting dedicated recyclers in Lane County.
A 17-year-old West Albany High School student was arrested late Thursday night after police say he constructed an explosive device with plans to detonate it at his school.
The University of Oregon is developing MOOCs, or massive open online courses, with the capacity to teach thousands of students from the comfort of their own home.
An illegal birthday surprise was foiled by the Oregon State Police on Monday, after troopers say they found 8 pounds of pot wrapped up as birthday gifts.
When Dan Sligh and his wife got into their truck to begin a camping trip Thursday evening, they never could have imagined they would end up in the frigid Skagit River tangled in the wreckage of a collapsed bridge.
The Whiteside Theatre's marquee has been around since the 1920s in downtown Corvallis. As part of a big renovation that started last fall, the giant marquee will be lit up in neon.
The Washington Transportation Department says traffic on Interstate 5 in Skagit County backed up Friday afternoon about a mile northbound and two miles southbound as cars crawled through detours around the collapsed Skagit River bridge in Mount Vernon.
A truck hauling an oversized load of drilling equipment hit an overhead bridge girder on the major interstate between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span into a river below as the driver watched the structure collapse in his rearview mirror.
(New) 'If certain elements of that bridge are cut, the entire structure collapses' (Video)
