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A weather alert was issued by the National Weather Service on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. for strong thunderstorms until 5 p.m. for Linn County Lowlands, Cascade Foothills of Marion and Linn counties and Cascades of Marion and Linn counties. The storms may bring marble-sized hail (0.5 inches). "At 4:30 p.m.,...

Traffic around Aurora State Airport came to an abrupt halt Saturday morning after deputies spotted a suspicious backpack and called in a bomb squad. Technicians later inspected the item and officials said it was ultimately declared not dangerous. According to KPTV, the Marion County Sheriff's Office shut down Arndt Road...

WOODBURN, Ore. (KATU) — Residents were urged to stay away from a stretch of Arney Road in Woodburn as investigators worked an officer-involved shooting that killed a 37-year-old man. The Woodburn Police Department asked the public to avoid the 16000 block of Arney Road Northeast in Woodburn due to...

Scouting will get a another life in Woodburn. That is if the Woodburn Kiwanis Club has anything to say about it. According to James Audritsh, the Woodburn Kiwanis Club has been asked to resurrect a Cub Scout pack for local youth that would encompass the North Marion, Woodburn, and Gervais communities.

Last July the Albany City Council rejected an offer of $125,o00 for three blighted lots at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Jackson Street. The properties seem to have been forgotten since. Neither the lots themselves nor the parking strip on the street, normally the responsibility of the property owner,...

Oregon’s law enforcement community will gather Tuesday afternoon in Salem for an annual ceremony that reflects both the weight of past loss and the absence of new tragedy in the year behind it. The 2026 Oregon Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony is scheduled for 1 p.m. on May 5 at...

We’ve arrived at what will be our warmest day of the year and a hot afternoon. The abnormally hot afternoon has led us to declare today a First Alert Weather Day. We still expect temperatures to touch right around 90°, which would be a new daily high temperature for the day. The current record is 89°, so if we don’t quite make it to...

Record heat likely Sunday = First Alert Weather Day. We got plenty of warm sunshine Saturday afternoon in the Portland area, with highs climbing into the mid 70s. Kelso got to 80 degrees! A bit more cloud cover to our south kept Salem and Eugene in the 60s. There was...

The Philomath Museum’s Moreland Gallery will open a new exhibit on Saturday featuring works from the Corvallis Art Guild that explore themes of shelter, safety and survival. “Refuge: Where Life Endures” runs May 2 through July 25 and marks the latest community showing from a guild that traces its roots back 80 years when local artists came together to make art in the aftermath...

Spring Art Show: Woodburn High School’s Spring Art Show & Sale will be Thursday, May 14, from 3:30 to 6;30 p.m. at the Woodburn Art Center, 2551 N. Boones Ferry Rd. The event offers free admission and refreshments. Brewfest Is Back: Brewfest returns to the Clackamas County Event Center...