Category Public Safety
Lawmakers propose pause on rate hikes from utilities embroiled in wildfire lawsuits
Oregon Republicans want to ban utilities from raising rates on customers if the companies have been involved in unresolved wildfire lawsuits for three or more years.
Salem firefighters headed to Los Angeles area to help fight wildfires
Marion County fire agencies are sending 44 firefighters and 10 engines to the Los Angeles area. They’re on the road and expected to arrive Thursday morning to help.
No arrest in New Year’s Day shooting that wounded teen in NE Salem
In the early hours of 2025, an 18-year-old woman arrived at Salem Hospital with a gunshot wound. Salem police say she’d come from a home on Northeast Aguilas Court, where police had just responded to a disturbance and found a crowd dispersing.
Police investigating “suspicious death” after body found on SE Lancaster Drive
Salem police have provided no details about the death of a person found around 10 a.m. Friday in a vacant lot in the 3000 block of Southeast Lancaster Drive, only describing it as suspicious.
“A tragic accident”: Judge dismisses charge against DEA agent in fatal cyclist collision
A U.S. DEA agent acted legally in causing a collision that killed a Salem cyclist, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The judge found the agent is immune from a pending criminal charge because he reasonably believed he needed to run a stop sign to pursue a suspected drug trafficker.
Salem man charged with sexual abuse, accused of posing as a teen online
Salem Police are seeking additional victims or people who have information about Jeramey Lee Braman, 24, who was arrested for several charges of sexual abuse on Dec. 31.
2024 TOP STORIES: Youth gun violence, jail overdoses, a concerned judge speaks
Reporter Ardeshir Tabrizian shares his top Salem stories from 2024.
Police seek “vehicle of interest” seen near fatal hit-and-run in West Salem
Surveillance video shows a white SUV near the scene of a fatal hit-and-run collision in West Salem minutes before police responded to the intersection of Northwest Edgewater Street and Northwest Mulark Avenue on Dec. 23.
2024 was the deadliest year in at least a decade on Salem’s roads, with 25 fatal crashes
Twenty-seven people died in car and motorcycle crashes in 2024, a Salem Reporter analysis of data from local law enforcement agencies found.