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A 26-year-old Independence man will spend just over three years in prison for raping a girl in 2021, according to the Polk County District Attorney’s Office.

As many drivers on SW Pacific Boulevard in Albany have noticed, the prominent spray foam figures of a prospector and his mule have moved. For a long time, they stood on a pedestal at the former South Pacific Auto Sales car lot on Pacific near 49th Avenue. Now they stand...

The votes are in, many of the ballots are counted and the timbre of the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners is all but set for the next four years. The battle for Position 1 on the commission proved little more than a skirmish as incumbent Kit Johnston outdistanced challenger John Linder by nearly 13% of the 33,663 v

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - Oregon Humane is offering a special adoption promotion for veterans and active duty service members this Memorial Day weekend. From Friday through Sunday, military members will receive up to $75 off adoption fees for any animal at the Portland and Salem shelters. The promotion is funded...

KEIZER, Ore. — Law enforcement agencies across Oregon partnered last week in a coordinated effort aimed at ensuring compliance among registered sex offenders living in Keizer. Operation Dove Watch, conducted Thursday, May 14, brought together the Keizer Police Department, the United States Marshals Service, and the Ore

Well, what do you know! The bike trap at the Queen Avenue railroad crossing has been eliminated. It’s smooth sailing now, or rather riding. For a year I had been harping on this problem. The repaving of Queen Avenue in 2024 left an abrupt end to the westbound bike lane at the rail crossing. It was a hazard to bike ride

BENTON COUNTY, Ore. (KPTV) - A body pulled from the Willamette River near Harrisburg has been identified as a missing man, according to the Benton County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said the body was found along the west bank of the Willamette River by a kayaker on May 19, just after 2 p.m., near river mile

Oregon State Hospital faces a $2.5 million wrongful death lawsuit after a patient died at the hospital in 2024 of a fentanyl overdose, allegedly after a visitor slipped it to him and staffers failed to stop the exchange. Diane Jennison, the mother and estate representative of Roy Bennett Jr., filed...

SALEM — Salem officials are taking another look at how the city could use urban renewal money to shape future development north of downtown, a stretch of the city that could become more important as Salem looks for new housing, business activity and better public access near the Willamette River.

The mini-roundabout on Salem Avenue at Waverly Drive was opened over Labor Day weekend last year. Eight months later, it is still giving some people fits, or so it seems. On May 16, someone went on Facebook and wrote: “Well, I like roundabouts but this one here is crazy dangerous. Has no purpose at all. There needs to