Oregon DEQ under resourced to face enormity of climate change challenges, audit finds
Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality is significantly understaffed and underfunded, state auditors find.
Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality is significantly understaffed and underfunded, state auditors find.
Salem barber Eron Griffin has been indicted on new felony charges alleging he sexually abused underage victims. He was charged in a separate case in November with molesting teenagers during haircuts at his home barbershop.
The Salem-Keizer School District will begin a “painful” process laying off about 300 employees and cut 100 other vacant jobs, including classroom teachers, graduation coaches and mentors for teachers.
Oregon Health Plan coverage expanded during the pandemic, but thousands of Oregonians lost that coverage last spring after federal rules changed.
From the Make Music Day to the World Beat Festival and Hoopla, here are the major events coming to Salem through September.
Mayor Chris Hoy will present a motion Wednesday to use money from hotel taxes to stave off library budget cuts for the next fiscal year. He called the measure a temporary solution.
Police on Monday searched a west Salem home and arrested a second suspect as part of a nearly two-year investigation into mail theft in the Salem area.
Samuel Grill is accused of trafficking fentanyl in the Marion County Jail in November 2022. Another inmate at the time, Will Schultz, died of a fentanyl overdose while in jail.
An annual report from Oregon Fish & Wildlife found the state’s wolf population did not grow in 2023, when several wolves were poisoned or shot.
Courtney Place opened its doors to its first tenants in early April. The 34-unit affordable veteran housing project across from the YMCA has been years in the making.