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Philomath High’s girls soccer team scored early in each half and kept Stayton off the scoreboard Thursday in a 2-0 victory over the Eagles to move alone into first place in the league standings. Warriors freshman Lilly Ellis scored in the sixth minute and senior Angelica Morales-Marquez added a...

Philomath volleyball coach Whitney Thomas has seen a lot of matches, but nothing like Thursday’s first two sets against Stayton. The Warriors lost the opening set 25-3 to the conference leaders, then came back and won the second set 25-16. Stayton recovered to win the last two sets and the match 3-1 at Philomath High School, but the turnaround left an impression.

AMITY, Ore. (KPTV) - The Vander Meide family is working to rebuild after a fire destroyed their barn and killed several farm animals. Christian Vander Meide and his family were woken up around 1 a.m. on Tuesday to a nightmare: Their shop, pole barn and long barn were all on fire.

WinCo Foods has acquired 27.66 acres along Stacey Allison Way in Woodburn, Oregon, paying $13.61 million for the land as it moves ahead with plans for an 84,000-square-foot grocery store. The purchase, made from seller Capital Development, works out to roughly $491,990 per acre and marks a major step toward adding a grocery store in a city with limited grocery choices.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Fall is full swing across the Pacific Northwest, and our local farms are stocked with pumpkins, seasonal treats and festive activities for the entire family. In Marion County, French Prairie Gardens have kicked off their autumn event, including a pumpkin patch, big races, a corn cannon and so much more. Kohr […]

A man was sentenced on Thursday after a DUII crash last year killed a bicyclist in Marion County, authorities announced.

Gilgamesh Brewing Founder Michael Radtke died Sept. 24 from a pulmonary embolism. He was 49. Radtke grew up in Salem and graduated from Sprague High School in 1996 . He attended the University of Idaho before returning to Salem , according to his obituary . Radtke and his brothers, Matt and Nick, built Gilgamesh into a sprawling series of breweries and taphouses throughout the Mid-Valley and even had an outpost on the Oregon Coast. They hosted Salem Storytellers Project events at their location

The state's psychiatric hospital is understaffed, has unstable leadership and lacks capacity, training and safety measures, according to a Marion County Grand Jury report . Marion County District Attorney Paige Clarkson convened the grand jury in March . Oregon law requires a grand jury to review correctional facilities each year. The grand jury's principal finding in its report released Sept. 30 is that Oregon State Hospital capacity can't meet current treatment needs. The capacity issue affect

The 17th annual Olio Nuovo Festival, a monthlong Italian-inspired celebration of the season’s olive harvest, is quickly approaching at Durant Vineyards, near Dundee. During the entire month of November, visitors […]

Until a 2020 wildfire burned most of the trees and closed trails, 50,000 people a year hiked to see the Opal Creek Wilderness, once ranked by Audubon magazine with the Grand Canyon as one of the nation’s top 10 “paradises preserved” in the 20th century. The fabled...