The co-chairs of the Joint Committee on Ways and Means released Senate Bill 5550 March 5. The cities of Dallas, Monmouth and ...

A massive search effort continues for a 2-year-old child in Siletz, Oregon. He was last seen near milepost 21 on Siletz River Highway on March 1.

a crucial part of a new water production facility in Southeast Polk County. The facility, expected to be operational by 2028, will initially produce 7.5 million gallons of water daily and includes ...

Samantha Fett, R-Carlisle, read aloud a statement submitted by Jenn Turner, Polk County chapter chair of Moms for Liberty, a conservative political organization that advocates against school ...

Knife River VP of its South Central Division Chris Doan and Technical Services Manager Matt Ropp tour the Woodward site in Crook County, Oregon on April 12, 2023. Emily Cureton Cook / OPB The ...

Polk County Commissioners will vote on adding 75 new Fire Rescue positions to address staffing shortages and mandatory overtime. The move comes after concerns that nearly half of newly hired first ...

For the second time in two years, Oregon lawmakers want to kill a map meant to identify areas at high risk of catastrophic wildfires but that has become a lightning rod for anger from rural ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek paused referrals for wildfire hazard map appeals on Monday, which come amid calls from state lawmakers to repeal the maps altogether. Kotek ...

The Polk County Sheriff's Office is investigating a hit-and-run that left a 63-year-old man dead. It happened early Monday along Spirit Lake Rd. near Winter Haven. Investigators say they don't have a ...

The local DNR fisheries team surveyed Big Butternut Lake to assess the fishery during 2022 with early spring fyke netting, early spring and late spring night electrofishing runs, and a fall night ...

SALEM, Ore.- Monday, Oregon Republican legislators are coming out against the state’s wildfire hazard map and seeking its repeal. The map designates wildfire risk statewide. Oregon’s Republican state ...