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Summer camping at Silver Falls State Park is back.

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After a renovation, Oregon State Parks reopened reservations today for the campground. Sites can be booked for June 18 through Sept. 30, though they’re filling up quickly, especially for holiday weekends.

The improvements include a new accessible bathroom in the park’s B loop and new pavement in the A loop.

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Early Monday morning, many commuters saw a dark plume of smoke coming from downtown Salem. A small crowd took pictures and watched as firefighters put out a railroad fire near…

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An open house on Friday, June 13, at Willamette University shared the latest leads in an excavation looking for the foundation of a historic building once used by Methodist missionaries…

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Gov. Tina Kotek has signaled her support for potentially using some of the kicker or other one-time funding to invest in wildfire work across the state.

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A long-awaited proposal to fund state roads, bridges and other transit projects met with concern that costs would hit low-income Oregonians.

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