Salem OR

SALEM, Ore. — As we look back on September 11, 2001, 25 years later, Oregon officials are inviting the public to visit the 9/11 Memorial in Salem. The memorial consists of steel beams recovered from the wreckage of the World Trade Center and a piece of the Pentagon after it was struck by Flight 77 that same day.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Oregon’s public schools are getting smaller. Statewide enrollment fell by more than 9,000 students in the 2025-26 school year — the largest one-year decline since the initial shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. And some of Oregon’s largest school districts are shrinking even faster.

SALEM, Ore. — Salem Police arrested three people early Friday morning after a DUII traffic stop in northeast Salem led to the recovery of two loaded handguns, including one that had been reported stolen. On September 11, 2026, just after1 a.m., officers stopped a car near Silverton Road and...

The Oregon Hop Festival returns to Woodburn for its third year this weekend. Topwire Hop Project hosts the two-day celebration Sept. 12-13, right on a working fifth-generation hop farm. Guests can take tractor tours through the fields, sample fresh hop beers from more than 20 breweries, and enjoy live music...

Scouting Get-Together: The new Cub Scout Pack forming in the area will have a “get acquainted” night on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 6 p.m. at the new Gervais Fire Station. This is for boys and girls in grades K-5th who are interested in joining the Cub Scouts. The newly reforming group has a Pack leader, but is in need of

TWISTED SISTER played its third concert with ex-SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach Sunday night (September 6) at the L.B. Day Amphitheater at the Oregon State Fair in Salem, Oregon. The show featured TWISTED SISTER‘s new touring lineup, consisting of Bach on lead vocals, Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda on guitar, Russell Pz

Thousands of Vaux’s Swift birds swarmed a church in Salem, Oregon, then vanished down the building’s chimney in a wild scene captured on video this week. At dusk one recent night, about 4,000 Vaux’s Swifts were seen in the video creating a huge, dark cloud over a church steeple before abruptly diving into its chimney [

Did you just purchase a state-of-the-art, orthopedically-designed mattress that makes you feel like you are sleeping on a cloud? And do you now have to figure out how to get rid of the ratty old mattress responsible for reforming your spine into the shape of a question mark?. Then you...

Once a year, Oregon State University’s Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts hosts an event best described as a concert meets science experiment. It’s called Big Fish Fest, and organizers say it’s the world’s only live-music accompanied shark dissection. This is the third year...

September 15 marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month and a first-of-its-kind celebration is shining a light on Latino culture in Oregon's wine country.