A four-vehicle crash has closed Pringle Road and Madrona Avenue SE on the morning of Aug. 12. Salem Police said in a post on X one person was taken for medical care with non-life-threatening injuries.

The Oregon Water Resources Commission must reconsider its denial of a proposed dam in farmland south of Silverton, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled.

A search is underway for a 27-year-old Medford man who went missing after a rafting trip on Aug. 10 on the Rogue River in southern Oregon.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued three people and are searching for a fourth person after a fishing boat sank along the coast near Newport on Aug. 10.

The preliminary analysis looked at potential impacts on Oregon state agencies from the federal budget reconciliation bill.

The extreme heat warning for northwest Oregon has been extended into Aug. 12 due to temperatures that will continue to threaten 100 degrees.

A two-alarm fire in the 5000 block of Cumberland Court SE in south Salem has closed Liberty Road S between Kuebler Boulevard and Boone Road Southeast.

Two men were rescued from a drift boat that became pinned in the rocks of Mill City Falls on Aug. 8, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. Rescue officials said they got a call at 3 p.m.

Former state Rep. Tracy Cramer is making a new bid for the Oregon Legislature and announced her candidacy Aug. 11 for the Oregon State Senate. Cramer, a Republican who represented House District 22 ...

The 2025 Oregon high school football season is less than a month away. The Statesman Journal is taking a close look at the ...

Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent study has found.

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