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In August 2025, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office Deputies conducting ongoing online child luring investigations posing as underage children on various social media platforms were contacted by 48-year-old Eric White of Corvallis, OR. On 08/04/2025, Mr. White contacted an LCSO decoy account and engaged in sexually...

You haven’t been to Woodburn Premium Outlets if you haven’t been lately. The outlet mall 30 miles south of Portland is expanding its shopping options. Woodburn Premium Outlets — located at 1001 Arney Road N.E., just off Interstate 5 — recently welcomed six new retailers to its lineup.

My daughter got her braces off. Soji is 9 and burst into the room as I was finishing the Monday Mailbag, grinning like she’d won the Powerball. “They gave me a pack of gum,” she announced.

Two painters and a ceramicist featured through Oct. 18 at Newberg gallery. Art Elements Gallery has gathered together a trio of local artists for an exhibit it calls “Oregon in Summer Reverie,” billed as the Newberg gallery’s end of summer show. The exhibit features Don Sprague, Molly...

For decades, the restaurants and bars of Willamette Valley wine country told a specific story about what local food looked like here. An amorphous descriptor, “local” to the Willamette Valley mainly referred to Oregon-grown ingredients brought to the state by American settlers of European descent, things like...

Traffic safety remains a priority for Woodburn, but city leaders say solutions will require time, money and careful planning. At the Aug. 11 city council meeting, Woodburn Public Works Director Curtis Stultz and Woodburn Police Chief Jason Millican outlined the city’s current efforts to address speeding, red-light...

LEBANON, Ore. — Firefighters with the Lebanon Fire District (LFD) responded to a pickup truck fire on Sunday around 1 p.m. on the 32000 block of Berlin Road, where flames threatened a nearby travel trailer and ignited a grass fire. LFD says fire crews quickly deployed hose lines down...

SALEM, Ore. — New charges have been filed against a man accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl in Salem earlier this month. Elijah Galaviz Arce, 48, now faces one count of first-degree kidnapping and two counts of attempt to commit a Class A felony, in addition to prior charges of second-degree kidnapping and...

The Beavers wrestling team now boasts a world champion. On Monday morning, Oregon State incoming redshirt sophomore Justin Rademacher bested Magomedgadzhi Magomedov 4-1 for the 97 kilogram title at the U20 United World Wrestling Championship in Samokov, Bulgaria. Rademacher is now a two-time medalist at the U20 world...

Three 18-year-olds from Portland were arrested in Corvallis Friday night, accused of robbing a man at gunpoint in a parking lot along the historic Newport bayfront earlier that evening. Newport Police officers were first called out just after 6 p.m. to Southwest Bay Boulevard on reports of an armed robbery.