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Here’s some of today’s news. Find all our coverage anytime on our website.

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After around six months at its new location, Salem’s Recovery Outreach Community Center has more than doubled the number of people walking through its doors. ROCC mixes fun and community…

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Athletes and spectators filled Salem for the 25th year of Hoopla.

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Nathan Soltz will be a delegate to the Democratic National Convention for the third time and said the party’s been reinvigorated following President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of…

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Gov. Tina Kotek’s office declined to answer multiple questions about the group she created to improve poor conditions at the state’s only women’s prison.

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