Aurora News

Here's your chance to "shop local" for your Thanksgiving dinner. In these tough economic times, "shop local" is the mantra of many who want to boost their local economies and help businesses in their communities.

21, the Assistance League is holding a fund-raising dance-off between local celebrities for its children's program.

Aurora garbage collection rates will increase 4 percent starting in February 2010.

The Aurora Unit 110 , American Legion Auxiliary Santa's Christmas Bazaar will feature homemade and commercial gift items such as quilts and candles.

AURORA a ' About 65 people attended the Nov. 3 kickoff of the Oregon Department of Aviation project to update the master plan for the Aurora State Airport and chart the airfielda TMs future growth.

Police are asking for the public's help in identifying thieves who stole a checkbook, a debit card and identification from a pickup, then passed a check at a casino and used the debit card to withdraw cash.

A Sam Barlow High School coach has been identified as the driver in a possible hit-and-run collision that seriously injured a pedestrian just north of Aurora early on Halloween.

Oregon State Police are asking for help finding a hit-and-run driver who struck and injured a 23-year-old man walking on Oregon 99E early this morning.

The state of Oregon stopped payment Friday on the $650,000 out-of-court settlement deal recently struck with a former state airports manager who claimed that he was wrongly fired by former aviation director Dan Clem.

You-pick pumpkins, hay rides, hay maze, corn maze, hay pyramids and farm animals, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays, 10720 Airlie Road, Monmouth.

Barb and Arnie Mitchell enjoy some quiet time in the dining room of their bed and breakfast home, the Feller House, in Aurora.

When kindergartner Bailey Brotherton sniffed two doses of the H1N1 FluMist, her eyes started to well up, but North Marion Primary School nurse Christine Imdieke quickly gave her a big hug.

After securing a $650,000 settlement from the state, William Robert Pruitt hopes to land a job, his attorney said Tuesday.

As the giant pumpkins slammed to the ground at Fir Point Farms, the crowd shrieked and clapped.

What weighs nearly 400 pounds and destroys cars from a helicopter? Hint: Halloween is coming.

A rollover crash in Marion County that hospitalized two passengers early Thursday was blamed on the driver's impairment, county sheriff deputies said Friday.

The 37th annual quilt show 'A Community of Quilts' will be at the Old Aurora Colony Museum Friday through Oct.

Silverton is among a handful of Marion County cities that have recently developed plans to address potential natural disasters in the area.

After leading police on a high-speed chase, aA man was arrested in Woodburn Tuesday morning when he ran out of gas.

Tom and Chris Maletis are negotiating with the Klamath Tribes to develop commercial ventures on and around their Langdon Farms Golf Club south of the Willamette River near Wilsonville.