SEATTLE — A Washington woman is warning others after her puppy nearly died after eating marijuana in a public park. KOMO-TV reports Hannah Puzas, of Seattle, on Monday took her French Bulldog, Jacques, to the Woodland off-leash area near Green Lake. Puzas says all of sudden the puppy became lethargic …

EVERETT, Wash. — The Snohomish County PUD has abandoned efforts to harness power from Sunset Falls on the South Fork of the Skykomish River. The Everett Daily Herald reports the three-member PUD commission made its decision this week. PUD spokesman Neil Neroutsos says the PUD wants to put an emphasis …

JUNCTION CITY — The tall trees at Washburne Wayside are long gone. Eugene-based Shiloh Forestry, the 38-acre property’s owner since last fall, harvested the trees earlier this year. Before the sale the land had been a state-owned rest stop with a thick stand of towering trees, mainly Douglas firs. The …

Things got a little wild at the Eugene City Council on Wednesday. City councilors gave sharper focus to a proposed ordinance that would prohibit residents from feeding such wildlife as deer, raccoons, wild turkeys and — for good measure — bears, coyotes and wolves. Violators could face daily fines. The …

SPRINGFIELD — An armed robber took the cash register at the Domino’s Pizza on Mohawk Boulevard early Wednesday, Springfield police said. Three store employees were preparing to close the shop at about 1 a.m. when a man walked in, pointed a gun at them and demanded cash, police said. He …

A 33-year-old man was arrested in the Park Blocks of downtown Eugene on Wednesday morning after allegedly firing several shots from what appeared to be a handgun. The gun was determined to be a “realistic-looking” pellet gun, according to Eugene police, and had been fired several times. Immanuel Menelik Williams …

SPRINGFIELD — A Springfield man says he was stabbed in the abdomen early Wednesday morning by a stranger who asked to pet the man’s dog. The victim, 28, told police he was in his front lawn on South 38th Street with his dog at 2 a.m., when the stranger wearing …

A transient with ties to the Eugene-Springfield area has been arrested in Northern California on a warrant charging him with making telephonic threats to FBI offices around the United States. California Highway Patrol officers on Tuesday took Shawn Frederick Weatherhead into custody after a traffic stop near the Mendocino County …

Eugene police are looking for the driver of a light-colored pickup truck after a hit-and-run crash early Wednesday morning sent a 20-year-old moped rider to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. The moped rider, a 20-year-old man, was taken to Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield around 3 a.m. …

CANNON BEACH — The Cannon Beach City Council has reversed its decision to block marijuana retailers from operating in mixed-use buildings. The Daily Astorian reports the council reconsidered out of fear that landlords with mixed-use properties would evict residential tenants to allow marijuana retailers to rent their commercial spaces for …

NORTH BEND — The North Bend School District in Coos County has closed all schools Wednesday after a threat was written on a bathroom wall at the middle school. According to North Bend Police Chief Robert Kappelman, the North Bend school resource officer was notified at 3:25 p.m. Tuesday afternoon …

WASHINGTON — Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan will not run for re-election, his office announced Wednesday, injecting another layer of uncertainty as Republicans face worries over losing their majority in the fall. Ryan’s plans have been the source of much speculation and will set off a scramble among his lieutenants …

SPRINGFIELD — “Every drop counts.” That’s the working motto for about 325 fourth-graders in the Springfield School District who have been slowly painting 44 rain barrels for the last several weeks in honor of Earth Day on April 22. More than 20 students in Kelsey Moore’s fourth-grade class at Maple …

NEW YORK — The Sinclair Broadcast Group attacked CNN on Tuesday for what it considers hypocrisy about the chain’s recent directive to local news anchors to read a message to viewers denouncing fake news. The unusual squabble is an outgrowth of the attention given to Sinclair, owner of 193 local …

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The city of Eugene’s year-old agreement to purchase the downtown riverfront property from the Eugene Water & Electric Board may be in trouble. EWEB commissioners voted Tuesday to extend the deadline to close its sale of the 16-acre property to the city by just one week, to no later than …

LOS ANGELES — Authorities say a family of four has been missing since last week while on a road trip from Portland, Oregon, to their home in Santa Clarita, California. San Jose police said Tuesday a relative called on April 8 to report the Thottapilly family missing. Police say the …

PORTLAND — Columbia Sportswear chief executive Tim Boyle is donating $1.5 million for the construction of a new homeless shelter in Portland. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the 100-bed shelter will be on city property under the Broadway Bridge. Boyle’s donation will go to Oregon Harbor of Hope, a nonprofit run by …

A man who worked as an educational assistant and a coach in the Bandon School District has pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography charge, prosecutors said. Sean Jeffrey Haga, 32, of Bandon, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Medford to one county of child sexual exploitation. Officials …

Joshua Powell, a Republican candidate for an open Eugene-area statehouse seat, frequently makes vitrolic and expletive-filled anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim posts on social media. “New York Times called the Bundy Ranch people trying to spin the narrative...[Expletive] Jews!!” Powell wrote on Facebook last October during the trial for the 2014 Bundy …