Corvallis News

Michael Buyes kneels at the gravesite of his son, Marine Cpl. Adam Buyes, during a Memorial Day ceremony at Restlawn Memory Gardens in West Salem, on Monday, May 28, 2012.

With Memorial Day just a couple days away, many Oregonians are using their extra day off of work or school to travel, visit with family or just enjoy some time outside.

In this May 23, 2012, photo, models Danielle White of Albany, Ore., left, and Tiffany Schmidt, of Corvallis, Ore., walk through Central Park in Corvallis.

Michelle Obama is speaking at this year's commencment. Both the university and the city of Corvallis are excited about receiving the special visitor.

The Willamette Valley Symphony will perform works by Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Schumann in Salem and Corvallis the weekend of June 2-3. The orchestra will play at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 2, at Chemeketa Community College's Building 6 Auditorium, 4000 Lancaster Drive NE.

State Police officers said that two DUII crashes near Corvallis and Albany are reminders for drivers to drive sober and buckle up.

Oregon State Police explosive technicians have recovered a $75,000 ocean research device stolen over the weekend after responding to report of a suspicious object left on the OSU campus Wednesday morning.

The bent and tangled quince trees at the Cloisters Museum in New York could be a metaphor for the fruit's long-lost charms, reports Michael Tortorello in the New York Time s . U.P. Hedrick, a pomologist, once wrote that "the quince, the 'golden apple' of the ancients, once dedicated to deities, and looked upon as the emblem of love and happiness, ... (more)

The thief may have a tough time fencing what was stolen from an Oregon State University van Saturday night.

Despite being the home of the state Capitol, a warren of agency offices, four prisons and the state hospital, Salem is not the Oregon metro area with the highest percentage of state jobs.

Churchill High School Athletic Director Kelly Bokn comforts Caroline Inglis after Inglis' disqualification at the Class 5A state golf championship in Corvallis, Ore., last week.

A small group of anti-war demonstrators staged a peaceful "die in" on Thursday at President Barack Obama's election campaign headquarters to demand an end to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and unmanned drone aircraft attacks overseas.

Those kittens KEZI 9 News told you about on Tuesday are now safe and looking for a home after Corvallis city workers saved them from a hole.

The March flooding almost seems to be a distant memory, but the damage it and all the storms left behind is still affecting one popular play area in Corvallis.

The world is facing an "unprecedented crisis of resource depletion" - a crisis that could mean more war, states a world security expert who's pushing for more green technologies to aid mankind.

CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Two Corvallis police officers rescued nine ducklings from a storm drain and reunited them with their mother and siblings Saturday.

A suspicious device found outside a gas station early Saturday morning proved to be a hoax.

After a long, gray and wet winter, sun breaks are a welcome sign of spring in Oregon, and we make... These are the winners in Friday's Oregon School Activities Association Orchestra State Championships at Oregon State University: String Orchestra: 1. Crescent Valley Camerata of Corvallis, directed by George Thomson 2. West Salem High School Chamber ... (more)

Learn about the laws of unintended consequences when it comes to battling non-native species on May 17 in Corvallis.

A 19-year-old McMinnville man was arrested on multiple charges in connection with a stabbing that grew out of an altercation in Corvallis, the Corvallis Police Department reported.