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Salem-Keizer families will learn Friday which elementary schools could be recommended for closure when the district publicly releases a list of up to eight schools on the afternoon of Oct. 9. For families across Salem and Keizer, the announcement will answer one major question that has hung over the opening...

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...

Mild conditions and mixed skies are expected tonight in the Willamette Valley, with a breezy northerly wind. Warmer temperatures are forecast for Thursday before a cooling trend takes hold heading into the weekend.

It will be warm again this afternoon. Morning lows start cool in the upper 40s to low 50s, so you will want a light layer early. Highs will reach the mid-70s to around 80 inland under mostly sunny skies, perfect for walks, recess, and after-school practices. A few patches of fog or low clouds are possible along the coa

EVENTS Author Signing, Chat: Eileen Garvin, a best-selling author, will be at the Oregon Garden in Silverton on Friday, Oct. 9, from 6 to 8 p.m. for a talk and […]

Portland and Salem-Keizer are moving toward decisions that could reshape their public school systems in 2027, with proposed closures, attendance boundary changes and program relocations affecting families well beyond the campuses under consideration. Both districts are evaluating how to operate fewer schools as enrollm

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A Halloween-loving family in Marion County is inviting guests into their home, if you dare! Milburn’s Haunted Manor in Hubbard is a critically acclaimed haunted attraction, scaring up some national attention over the 20+ years they have been in operation. Kohr Harlan takes us into the spooky hal

EUGENE, Ore. (CN) — An Oregon city and county urged a federal judge Tuesday to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from carrying out its plan to lower water levels in Detroit Lake, arguing the action will both harm protected fish species and imperil drinking water. “The biggest...

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — A SWAT team is working with law enforcement in Salem to serve a search warrant on Wednesday morning. Salem Police said at about 5:20 a.m. that the SWAT incident had Fairhaven Avenue NE closed between Silverton Road and Carleton Way. Officials said they are serving...