Salem OR

Move necessary to make way for development of Butler Property on First Street. A beloved public art installation in Newberg will soon be moved to a new home. City of Newberg officials announced this week that “Boys Night Out,” a bronze sculpture installed in a vacant lot across from city hall by the Newberg Public...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The man who was stabbed outside a closed-down drug store in Salem on Wednesday is in stable condition, police say. The suspect was also identified as 58-year-old Salem resident Jonathan Loren Jones, who is accused of stabbing a 48-year-old Salem man twice on Wednesday afternoon. The Salem...

Gov. Tina Kotek has extended her executive order declaring a state of emergency on homelessness for the third time since 2023, this time with a focus on behavioral health. Kotek has made housing and homelessness a focus, beginning with three executive orders signed on her first day in office, including the initial...

While many Oregon farmers pull back amid tariff worries, low crop prices and a difficult labor market, Jeff Newton plans to invest in new hazelnut trees at Christensen Farms near Amity in Yamhill County. Newton, along with other Oregon hazelnut growers, is waiting for a final tally of the volume of nuts they sold in...

Salem, OR— For taxpayers wanting to claim their share of Oregon’s $1.41 billion kicker as soon as possible, filing electronically has never been more important. On average, taxpayers who e-file their returns and request their refund via direct deposit receive their refund within two weeks. Those who file paper...

SALEM Ore. (KPTV) - A 48-year-old Salem man was stabbed and a 58-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Salem Police Department. Just after 3 p.m., officers were sent to the parking lot of a former Rite Aid on Commercial Street Southeast after reports of a stabbing.

Days after officers shot a domestic violence suspect in Albany, officials are saying they shot the wrong person.

A 75-year-old man has been arrested in Oregon and charged in the 1997 killing of San Jose resident Alice Sharitz, after investigators say DNA from a glob of phlegm preserved in her apartment's toilet bowl tied him to the scene. The arrest, announced this week, pulls a nearly three-decade-old cold case back into the...

SALEM, Ore. – On January 8, 2026, the Salem Police Special Investigations Unit arrested a man related to a menacing incident that occurred on December 29, 2025, on Knox Avenue near Edina Lane NE in the North East Salem Community Association neighborhood. The victim, a 48-year-old man of Salem,...

LANE COUNTY, Ore. - The Lane Regional Air Protection Agency has issued a yellow wood stove advisory for Eugene and Springfield, effective through Sunday. The advisory comes as a strong winter air stagnation event develops over the Willamette Valley. According to LRAPA, residents are encouraged to avoid using wood...