Salem News

Rita Hinchcliff, just days after losing her beloved canine companion Zipper, decided to volunteer to foster dogs in her home for Hope's Haven, a local animal rescue shelter.

At the Southeast Neighborhood Community Center on May 23, members invited the community to a dessert social to highlight the neighborhood's best and support its future.

A recent graduate of Cascade High School who was critically injured in a car crash two weeks ago has died.

Kelly Rhodes bowed her head as she was charged with open murder in connection to the death of her 89-year-old mother.

Melinda Arnold has been assisting with Relay for Life for four years, but her passion for her pets pushed her to do more.

The scent of fresh paint and sawdust was in the air at an apartment property in northeast Salem on Tuesday, marking a new beginning after a painful past.

Salem Police have not yet identified a decomposed body they found around 11 a.m. Monday in Shelton Ditch behind Salem Hospital.

Some people go on a cruise. Others move to Palm Springs. Seventy-year-old Ted Gross ran a marathon.

Sarah Matheny grew up cooking with her mom in South Salem. The memories made during cooking family dinners and desserts in a Betty-Crocker, scratch-cooking style was fun but not necessarily her passion, and she certainly didn't envision herself writing a bestselling vegetarian cookbook because she didn't contemplate food choices; she was too busy ... (more)

The suspect in this investigation, John Lee Wyngarden, was arrested Saturday evening, June 15 after Salem Police received a call reporting he was at a residence on Skyline Road South in Salem.

Oregon State Police said Jon E. Nelson, 56, of Salem failed to stop at a stop sign on Lake Creek.

Salem-Keizer School District might redraw the West Salem school boundaries three years after it put them in place.

A Marion County Deputy was cleared of wronging this afternoon in the shooting of a man in South Salem after a traffic stop.

Forty-two-year-old Richard Swanson was hit and killed May 14, 2013 while walking south along U.S. Highway 101 in Oregon.

Generally, blue flowering plants are less common when looking for garden plants.

That's why the wineries that open with a splash are so often the second acts of the semi-retired and obscenely successful -- the folks who can afford to lose a million before seeing any returns.

Wayne Herendeen was not the king of the high school dance. In fact, he didn't really start shuffling his feet until he was 24. 'Shyness,' he says.

A proposed ballot initiative to overturn Oregon's 2004 ban on marriage by same-sex couples will be the topic of the next Marion DemoForum.

The doors to the newly-renovated Meridian Apartments opened to great fanfare Wednesday, with catered food from Wild Pear, violin music and wine tasting.

For six years, Salem has waited. The vacant Boise Cascade property, once the industrial heart of the city, has looked like 13 acres of missed opportunity to residents driving by on Commercial Street SE.