Salem OR

SALEM, Ore. — A man was arrested after a nearly seven-hour search that sent nearby schools into lockdown in Northeast Salem. On Friday, just before 4 a.m., deputies responded to a shooting call at the 3600 block of Rockwood Park Court Northeast, finding a 44-year-old woman, who was not identified, with a gunshot...

The School Board recently faced pressure to reconsider a previously failed motion to close both Cheldelin and Letitia Carson schools. The request, deemed out of order, was made while the motion for the original proposal, which involved closing only Cheldelin, was being debated. The decision has sparked a wave of...

Marion County deputies arrested Darren Lake after a hours-long standoff in Scotts Mills, where he refused to surrender until SWAT and a K-9 team entered. Scotts Mills, OR. — A late-night standoff ended in an arrest Thursday after Marion County deputies and a SWAT team took a wanted fugitive into custody following...

The Corvallis School Board voted 6-1 to close Letitia Carson Elementary and Cheldelin Middle Schools, effective next school year. The decision also includes moving sixth grade to elementary schools, changing Mountain View Elementary to a K-8 school and redrawing boundaries for schools near Letitia Carson. "It does...

MOUNT HOOD FOREST, Ore. (KATU) — The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue team has transitioned to a recovery mission in the area where Devon Dobek, 51, of Hubbard, is believed to have been hunting. Dobek was reported missing on Oct. 31 after failing to return from a...

Rogue Ales & Spirits closed its operations in Newport and all its restaurants — including the recently opened Rogue Salem Public House — suddenly on Nov. 14. The Lincoln Chronicle reported that the 37-year-old business owed $545,000 in back rent to the Port of Newport and up to $30,000 in taxes to Lincoln County. The...

The Woodburn City Council has temporarily halted the use of the Flock Safety camera system following resident concerns raised during a recent council meeting. According to KPTV, the city will suspend the license plate–reading cameras for at least 60 days while a full review is conducted. At the meeting,...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Portland, OR – Western Oregon may enter a cool, wet, and potentially wintry pattern during the Thanksgiving travel window, as long-range federal outlooks point to a near-normal precipitation signal, leaving...

Traffic cameras at four Albany intersections yielded 747 tickets last month, the vast majority of them for speed violations. The average speed on all those tickets was 35.1 miles an hour. The camera flashes actually went off far more often. They recorded 2,789 “events,” but most of those resulted in...

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — A judge blocked the state from enforcing new caseload requirements for public defenders on Friday. Public defenders in Marion County argued in court that new contracts with the state would require public defenders to take on hundreds of cases to the point where it would make it impossible to...