Author: Blair Best (KGW) SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — New micro-shelters are coming to Salem as part of a citywide effort to get people off the streets and into stable housing. The shelters are on city-owned property and give people a ...
EUGENE, Ore. – An Oregon State Hospital psychiatric patient who escaped during an approved outing is back in custody. Court records show that in 2004, Thaddeus Ziemlak was found guilty of murder except for insanity, so he was put into ...
Author: KGW Staff SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — A man was shot and killed by a Salem police officer on Monday night, the Salem Police Department (SPD) reported. According to police, two SPD officers were processing a stolen vehicle in a ...
SOUTHERN OREGON, —NBC5 News first told you last week, that Governor Brown signed a bill into law that aims to prevent police from pulling over drivers, for minor traffic violations. Law enforcement is weighing on what this will look like, ...
Author: KGW Staff SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — A driver crashed into a homeless camp in Salem and hit six people, four of whom died, Salem Police said. The crash happened around 2 a.m. Sunday in the area of Front Street ...
Author: Anthony Macuk (KGW), KGW Staff SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — Federal agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized more than 65 guns during raids on two houses in Salem in the past month, all connected to ...
Author: Katherine Cook (KGW) SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — For Olena Sheremetyeva, last summer feels like a world away. Photos from her family vacation in Kyiv, Ukraine, show loved ones smiling without any worries. Today, Sheremetyeva’s mother and father are still ...
SALEM, Ore. —Oregon’s 2022 legislative session has officially wrapped up, and a heap of bills are now on Governor Brown’s desk. One includes a bill that would add regulations to kratom production and prohibits its sale to anyone under 21. ...
SALEM, Ore. – Oregon House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday night, that would provide a one-time payment of six-hundred dollars to low income households across the state. H.B. 4157A passed 42-16 with bipartisan support. Representatives say it will help ...
SALEM, Ore — Amid the denial of the Flying Lark’s pending Historic Horse Racing Machine application on Thursday, new documents emerged from Governor Kate Brown’s office to ensure the meeting followed state legal advice. Governor Brown sent a letter ...