Salem OR

CORVALLIS — Freshly planted and carefully tended, vegetable gardens can quickly become a magnet for trouble. Problems seem to spring up overnight. Weeds, for instance, can overtake a garden in days. Slugs munch on seedlings. Aphids suck the juices from any number of plants. And that white butterfly you see fluttering...

Salem, Ore. – On May 28, 2025, the City of Salem Budget Committee will reconvene to consider changes to the Fiscal Year 2026 Proposed Budget following voter approval of the five-year local option levy on Tuesday. “I am so grateful for the trust and confidence of our community,” said...

BENTON COUNTY, Ore. — Two Salem women, Julia Dell Yepez and Alexa Montano Corral, both 20, were arrested earlier this week after a man was shot inside his car near Greenberry on Saturday. Benton County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) officials indicated that the victim was lured through the Chispa dating app.

A coalition of schools and community groups in Linn and Benton counties has launched a three-year program designed to boost academic achievement and cultural connection among Black middle and high school students. The Black Excellence Initiative, funded through the Oregon Department of Education’s Student Success...

The Vietnam War ended in 1975 — 50 years ago. United States involvement in Vietnam stretched for 20 years between 1955 and 1975. During that period, three graduates from Philomath High School were killed in action fighting in South Vietnam in three successive years — Paul J. Cochran in 1968, David “Doc” Styles in...

St. Joseph Catholic Church in Salem still has no pews, no altar and no artwork. Yet, parishioners lined up to get a look inside the historic building, some for the first time in two years. The church held an open house for members of the community on May 18 to...

The Oregon State rowing teams were getting ready for practice at their facility on the west bank of the Willamette River near downtown Corvallis last month, but the day ended up being hardly routine. Assistant coaches Shelby Larkin and Torree Hawken were preparing one of the boats the coaches use,...

The 2020 coaching carousel got off to a quick start as Oregon State announced that Jim Zalesky would not be retained as the Beavers head coach on March 9th. Less than a month later, the school announced that they had hired Chris Pendleton as the program’s next head coach.

The suspects allegedly used an app to target the victim in the robbery.

There’s a lot of talk about the Oregon Department of Transportation’s budget in Salem and the fact that a transportation package is still in the air made me realize that a lot of Oregonians don’t know all that ODOT workers do. My name is Kyle Martin. I’m a transportation maintenance specialist 2 with ODOT in...