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BROWNSVILLE, Ore. — Around 10:45 a.m. Thursday (April 10), firefighters from Brownsville Fire District were dispatched to a house fire at 33000 block of Sunset View Drive, a rural community 5 miles north of Brownsville. Firefighters arrived within two minutes of the alarm as they were on another incident...

Waldport's former mayor Heide Lambert had to be removed from a city council meeting Thursday after she took a seat at the city council meeting and refused to move, authorities said.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s DMV says it has found new cases of people being registered to vote despite not showing proof of U.S. citizenship, as it continues to review voter registration records following the disclosure of the errors last fall. A DMV report released Thursday revealed 118...

What are the odds Police would capture an armed felon with drugs during a traffic stop? That's exactly what happened on Thursday in Oregon. In this case, the convicted felon is from Washington. OR Traffic Stop Leads to Arrest of WA Armed Felon With Methamphetamine. Shortly after 9 pm, A...

SALEM Ore. (KPTV) - An Oregon inmate briefly escaped from a work crew in Salem on Friday, according to the Oregon Department of Corrections. Shortly before 12:30 p.m., ODOC said Steven Timothy Gant ran away from an off-site work crew on foot, before being caught nearby on Mission Street by Oregon State Police officers.

SALEM, OR — In a groundbreaking effort to reduce gun violence and increase reloading time to a full 90 seconds, Oregon lawmakers have passed a new bill that limits all private citizens to only single-shot muskets. Governor Tina Kotek signed the bill into law Tuesday while dramatically quoting Eminem: “You only get...

Oregon’s minimum wage will rise by 35 cents an hour on July 1, state labor officials announced Friday. The state raises its minimum wage every year to keep pace with inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index. High inflation rates since the pandemic have thereby pushed the minimum wage up sharply over the...

"It is unthinkable that this funding was pulled," said Bradley Richardson, the executive director at the Clark County Historical Museum.

The mobile crisis intervention service CAHOOTS is essential and needs to be continued. That was the message from those who attended Thursday night’s town hall meeting held at the University of Oregon, following the elimination of CAHOOTS services in Eugene earlier in the week. Presenters—including former and current...

PORTLAND, Ore — Vacancy rates in the Portland metro and suburban areas have decreased since spring of 2024 and industry experts expect rents will likely start to increase as a result. According to a spring housing report from Multifamily Northwest (MFNW), the vacancy rate in the Portland metro dropped...