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The Dayton-area company earns ninth place in recent international contest. The Newberg area has become well known for a plethora of world-class wineries, but who knew the region’s prowess at creating fine olive oil would soon begin stealing some of the limelight?. For example: The Durant Olive Mill, located...

A California woman was sentenced May 15 to 37 months in federal prison for stealing $1.3 million in COVID-19 relief funds and failing to pay the Internal Revenue Service more than $700,000 in payroll taxes for a Salem business. Jamie McGowen, 43, was also sentenced to five years of supervised release and ordered to...

PORTLAND, Ore.—A California woman was sentenced to federal prison today for stealing nearly $1.3 million in Covid-relief program funds and failing to pay the IRS more than $700,000 in payroll taxes she collected from the employees of a small business in Salem, Oregon. Jamie McGowen, 43, was sentenced to...

It has had different names and changed shape over the years, but the original Leslie Junior High School building has been in constant service to students in Salem since it first opened in 1927. Leslie’s brick and wood-paneled walls have witnessed decades of learning, fun and memories created by the...

ALBANY, Ore. – Albany fire officials awarded a teenager the Civilian Bravery Award for acting quickly to help save a trapped child from a house fire in March, according to the Albany Fire Department. AFD officials said that 11-year-old Rachael Vollard was outside of her Airport Road home on...

MENDOCINO CO., 5/15/25 — The California Highway Patrol has issued a Feather Alert for a missing Mendocino County woman. Sarah Brandal, 32, was last seen around noon on Dec. 25, 2024, by Stanfield and Rainer roads in Woodburn, Oregon. On Thursday, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office contacted the CHP...

MARION COUNTY Ore. (KPTV) - A 27-year-old woman was arrested Thursday after she shot and critically injured a 48-year-old man in Northeast Salem, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO). On Thursday at about 10 a.m., officers arrived at Tierra Drive in Northeast Salem after someone called saying...

The co-owner of a local real estate investment company pleaded guilty on Thursday for his role in an $18 million fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon announced.

SUTHERLIN, Ore. — In the evening hours of Wednesday, May 14, detectives with the Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team (DINT) arrested a Salem man in connection to a methamphetamine investigation - and later discovered his true identity. "Detectives have been investigating a man they know as Enrique Gonzalez-Hernandez...

Samaritan Health Services’ maternity care services at its Lincoln City and Lebanon hospitals are on the chopping block. The Corvallis-based nonprofit health network is evaluating whether to close the Girod Birth Center at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital and the maternity ward at Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital....