Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for May 28-29, 2026
This is KEPW-LP 97.3 FM, broadcasting locally here in Eugene, Oregon, and simulcast online at kepw.org. And now: the news. (Newsday theme)
This is KEPW Newsday End-Of-Week Edition for Thursday the 28th and Friday the 29th of May, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:
- Corrosive chemicals hamper recovery efforts at a Longview industrial site and nine are still unaccounted for after a tank rupture.
- Investigators seek assistance in identifying a vehicle and a subject in the sexual assault.
- Six are charged with drug trafficking following a HSTF investigation.
- Salem police investigate a shooting incident downtown in Salem and a juvenile is in custody.
- Free household hazardous waste roundup is happening in Florence on June 5 and 6.
In national news:
- All evacuation orders are lifted for residents near the chemical tank in Garden Grove.
- A mother kills her two children after shooting at her husband and another woman at a bar in a murder-suicide.
- Evacuations are ordered in South Los Angeles after a large cache of illegal fireworks are found inside a home.
- An East North Carolina state representative introduced a controversial new bill igniting a fierce debate over reproductive rights.
- Burrito Brothers, a group of Franciscan Friars ministry, opens a new Oakland food truck to feed the homeless.
We’ll have all of that plus our national roundup. Bringing you the news locally and around the globe, KEPW Newsday starts….right now!
