If you're a fan of towering graffiti art, low-riders, good music or breakdancing, you won't want to miss this weekend's Urban Art Fest in Salem.

Need to finish a bachelor's degree or get a master's to move ahead at work? Western Oregon University is opening a campus in Salem tailored to working adults, soon to be located in the Vick building downtown.

The sudden death of her husband Jason Cook put an inordinate burden on the first-term councilor, she said.

Robert Dailey has pending criminal charges in Marion County and is under post-prison supervision after a 2017 conviction for unlawful firearm possession and possession of methamphetamine.

In early August, eight McKay High School students showed up in the school library to finish the last few credits toward their diplomas. All eight were successful.

Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is urging the court to rule split decisions are constitutional, saying overturning existing laws would throw the state’s court system into chaos.

Strut your mutt or get on your bikes and ride this weekend.

Salem officials are already discussing offering the incentive to the Oregon State Hospital North Campus, where Mountain West Investment Corp. hopes to build a 246-unit apartment.

The head of Oregon's Highway Division replaces Matt Garrett, who stepped down in June as director of the Oregon Department of Transportation. The agency is one of the state's largest.

The worst of the rain seems to be over, but poor drainage may lead to some scattered flooding in low-lying areas.

Salem-Keizer schools sometimes hold meetings in buildings owned by Salem Alliance Church. An employee complained because of church doctrine against LGBTQ relationships, but a state ruling this week said the church's beliefs aren't the district's responsibility.

A stripper, a dancing pole and a park also have a place in The Pentacle Theatre's latest live production.

School board members will consider several proclamations, and an agreement allowing Superintendent Christy Perry to be part of an effort to create a regional continuum of care for homeless services.

After more than a year of work from local advocates, Salem’s Peace Mosaic mural will be removed and preserved during demolition of the YMCA this fall. If all goes according to plan, it will eventually have a new home in Riverfront Park.

Ginger McCall, hired a year ago to improve transparency, claims pressure from governor’s office led to her resignation.

The payments are part of $160 million in dividends across the state.

From manufacturing to farming, area companies on Friday took home awards from SEDCOR.

The building will plop 148 apartments in at the corner of State and Commercial streets, most of which will be 270 square feet at $850 per month. It will add 14 parking spaces for vehicles, and many spaces for bicycle parking.

Salem-Keizer's new program has aeroponic towers and a tissue culture lab. Now, they're looking for a few more students.

Two months after city staff proposed a divisive ordinance, which many feel will target homeless people, a public forum offered about half an hour for people to discuss their thoughts or ask questions.

We went to Judson Middle School and Sprague High School to document the start of a new school year.

As Salem citizens debate a "sit-lie" ordinance to ban daytime sleeping on public sidewalks, some volunteers and outreach workers have taken a different approach to downtown homelessness, serving coffee in an effort to get people up and moving before businesses open.

Shelter Storytime aims to give kids aged 5 to 11 nonjudgmental listeners as they practice reading while also reducing stress and anxiety in the shelter's residents.

The move is part of an effort to end the practice of sending foster kids out of state, but is just one step.

Salem City Council will wait a few months longer for the Oregon Court of Appeals to rule before making its own decision, city officials said.

Look out for yellow buses on the roads and kids with backpacks in crosswalks - local students are back in school.

Most Salem-Keizer schools saw improved student attendance last year after a districtwide effort to reach out directly to families struggling to get kids to school. District leaders want that number to keep going up.

Shake off the three-day vacation fog with these Salem offerings.

Businesses and proponents of the proposal embrace it as protection. Homeless service providers and advocates worry it would inflict harm on the homeless and sweep them away from services, possibly into more dangerous situations.

The workers contend that universities have prioritized spending on presidents, administrators and sports programs at the expense of classified workers.