Salem OR

A coyote bit a woman who was walking along Orchard Heights Road just outside West Salem on Feb. 11, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. The woman, who was unnamed, suffered minor injuries after being checked out by medical services and was released on site, officials said. The Polk County...

SALEM Ore. (KPTV) - A 29-year-old Salem man was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a drive-by shooting the evening before, according to police. Just before 7 p.m. on Tuesday, officers with the Salem Police Department were sent to the area of Skyline Road South and Liberty Road South after people reported...

Alex Crays wants it to be spring. The collision program he co-directs with Andrei Cojuhari bought a $45,000 John Bean ADAS calibration system last summer, and he’s ready to start teaching it. “We didn’t have time last year,” Crays said. After training in December, “we’re about to teach it...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The threat of low elevation snow remains for the next 24 hours, mainly above 500 feet. An area of low pressure will move south along the Oregon Coast, sending precipitation into the Coast Range and Willamette Valley. At the same time, temperatures will be falling to just above freezing for the...

Demolition is now about a week underway for the renovation of the grandstands at Lebanon High school’s Heath Stadium and will remain closed until March 1.

After a critical audit of the city's leadership team found a lack of communication and overworked, understaffed departments, Salem City Manager Krishna Namburi says she wants the city to stay accountable and work smarter to address key inefficiencies. A draft of the audit was released in December 2024, and the final...

With a vacancy rate of about 4.5 percent and businesses and tenants still adjusting to post-COVID workspace needs and uncertain economic conditions, Salem-area experts are cautiously optimistic about the city’s commercial office market. Curt Arthur, a Capacity Commercial Group principal, said at the company’s annual...

Kittyhawk, which provides hot isostatic pressing (HIP) services for aerospace and defense manufacturers, suffered an explosion earlier this month at its facility in Canby, Oregon, The Oregonian reported. The 27,000-square-foot site opened in 2019 and operates several high-capacity HIP vessels. Portland television...

NEWBERG Ore. (KPTV) - Crews were able to rescue a person who was trapped in their car following a crash on Tuesday night, according to Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue (TVF&R). At about 5:45 p.m., fire crews were called to the scene of a two-car crash in the area of Northeast North Valley Road and Ribbon Ridge Road,...

A weekend trip in the Siuslaw National Forest turned violent when a 47-year-old Dallas man allegedly held and assaulted a victim at a remote campsite, including strangulation, beatings with a tree limb, and having a firearm discharged at them. The victim managed a desperate escape and required a hospital visit for...