By Salem Reporter
Here’s what Salem area lawmakers say they accomplished during the 2021 legislative session
Oregon Capitol (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem’s YMCA will see $4 million for early learning and childcare spaces in its new building. Cold medicine will be a little easier to get in Oregon. It’s easier to hire a physician’s assistant. Property…
SALEM HISTORY: A firebombing brings a neighborhood together to restore historic home
The Bucher House boarded up following the 1992 firebombing (Courtesy/Hazel Patton) Neighbors in the Court/Chemeketa Residential Historic District called the classic bungalow located at the corner of 14th and Court the “House from Hell.” Built in 1914 by Walter and…
Fire officials investigating suspicious fire northeast of Salem
Marion County Fire District No. 1 spent nearly two hours putting out a house fire around Northeast 66th Avenue on July 1, 2021. (Courtesy/ Marion County Fire District No. 1) Fire officials are investigating a fire as “suspicious in nature”…
One person shot in northeast Salem
Salem police closed 17th St Northeast between Kay and Kansas streets to investigate a shooting on July 1, 2021 (Courtesy/Marion Polk Crime Traffic and Severe Weather Alerts) Salem police are investigating a Thursday evening shooting near Englewood Park that left…
At least a dozen people believed to have died from heat wave in Marion and Polk counties
People stand in the shade of the Marion Street Bridge in Wallace Marine Park while others cool off in the Willamette River on Saturday, June 26, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) At least a dozen people in Marion and Polk counties…
With the help of a federal grant, Salem’s Cherriots will add 10 electric buses to its fleet
Recently sanitized and reconfigured Cherriots buses are seen at the Del Webb Operations Facility. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem’s longest bus route will be served by electric buses a year from now, thanks to a federal grant. Cherriots, Salem’s mass transit…
Evictions could cost Oregon billions, report says
Oregon could be forced to spend billions on social services to care for tens of thousands of people predicted to be left without a home as the state’s pandemic eviction moratorium has ended, according to a report published this week…
Mask rules remain in place for Salem-Keizer summer programs
Fourth grade student Apollo Lorenzoni works at his desk on the first day back to in-person school for fourth and fifth grade students at Myers Elementary School on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Oregon Gov. Kate Brown lifted…
Early reports show 9 Marion County residents died in heat wave, state medical examiner says
People cool off in the Willamette River at Wallace Marine Park on Saturday, June 26, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Nine Marion County residents likely died from causes associated with the recent heat wave, the Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office said…
Minimum wage workers in Salem and across Oregon to see pay raise
Oregon’s minimum wage will increase on July 1, 2021. How much varies by three different regions of the state. (Courtesy/Oregon Employment Department) The minimum wage in Salem will increase to $12.75 an hour starting July 1, up from the…