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SALEM, Ore. — A Woodburn police officer is under investigation after shooting and killing a 37-year-old resident in his driveway late on Saturday night. The Officer Use of Deadly Force incident involving Officer Jackson Ryan is under investigation by the Salem Police Department (SPD), a non-involved outside agency. According...

After a local sheriff's office presided over immigration agents' arrest of a man inside a Marion County courthouse without a judicial warrant, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and Oregon Attorney General

Newberg senior Sophia Castaneda spent her first two years in high school chasing Lake Oswego’s Josie Donelson as Donelson eventually broke Maria Mutola’s 33-year-old state record in the 400 meters and became the first Oregon girl to break 53 seconds in winning the 6A title in 2024. “I...

On a directionless summer night, two teenage boys crossed paths on the outskirts of Salem. One fatally shot the other. Two teenage girls saw it happen. Cellphones carried by all four had orbited the scene, tracing the teens’ movements and logging their messages and phone calls. And somewhere in that data may lie the shooter’s best hope to beat a life sentence.

Amazon has plenty of huge warehouses around Oregon to get goods to online shoppers quickly, including one that’s 3.8 million square feet in Woodburn, its biggest in the entire Northwest. But the giant retailer has started moving toward smaller facilities in more communities around the state, like Hood River, Eugene and Redmond. Amazon says this will provide better service for rural and smaller communities...

A weather alert was issued by the National Weather Service on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. for strong thunderstorms until 5 p.m. for Linn County Lowlands, Cascade Foothills of Marion and Linn counties and Cascades of Marion and Linn counties. The storms may bring marble-sized hail (0.5 inches). "At 4:30 p.m.,...

Traffic around Aurora State Airport came to an abrupt halt Saturday morning after deputies spotted a suspicious backpack and called in a bomb squad. Technicians later inspected the item and officials said it was ultimately declared not dangerous. According to KPTV, the Marion County Sheriff's Office shut down Arndt Road...

WOODBURN, Ore. (KATU) — Residents were urged to stay away from a stretch of Arney Road in Woodburn as investigators worked an officer-involved shooting that killed a 37-year-old man. The Woodburn Police Department asked the public to avoid the 16000 block of Arney Road Northeast in Woodburn due to...

Scouting will get a another life in Woodburn. That is if the Woodburn Kiwanis Club has anything to say about it. According to James Audritsh, the Woodburn Kiwanis Club has been asked to resurrect a Cub Scout pack for local youth that would encompass the North Marion, Woodburn, and Gervais communities.

Last July the Albany City Council rejected an offer of $125,o00 for three blighted lots at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Jackson Street. The properties seem to have been forgotten since. Neither the lots themselves nor the parking strip on the street, normally the responsibility of the property owner,...