By Alex Jensen, KGW PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — A woman drowned amid heavy rain and flooding in southern Oregon. The 44-year-old was attempting to clear branches from a culvert under her driveway in Central Point, when the waterproof overalls she was wearing filled with water and flood waters pulled her through the culvert into a nearby creek,
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – For the 12th year, the world can watch chickens hatch via the Oregon State University Extension Service live stream. The livestream started Sunday and will document the chicks as they hatch. The expected hatch date is March 19, and the cameras will remain on until Friday. Faculty and staff at the OSU Extension
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon State University Board of Trustees on Friday approved increases in tuition rates and student fees for the 2025-26 school year. The average undergraduate tuition and fee increase will be 4.9% for students at Oregon State’s Corvallis campus and OSU-Cascades in Bend. Continuing students will see a 4.8% increase, and
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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (KTVZ) — A Klamath Falls e-bike rider entered an intersection against a red light and was struck and killed by an SUV, Oregon State Police said Friday. At 9:42 a.m. on Wednesday, OSP responded to a vehicle vs. bicycle crash on Crater Lake Parkway (Highway 97 Business), at the intersection with Shasta
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Ten men formerly incarcerated at Oregon’s MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn have filed a $51 million lawsuit against the state’s juvenile justice agency, the Oregon Health Authority, alleging that they were all sexually abused by a single OYA doctor, and that several of them were also sexually abused by various other OYA staff.
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NEWPORT, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon State Parks will host Spring Whale Watch Week along the Oregon Coast from Saturday, March 22 through Sunday, March 30. Trained Oregon State Park volunteers and rangers will be stationed at 14 sites along the Oregon Coast to help visitors spot whales and their calves and answer questions from 10
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The Oregon National Guard’s 1249th Engineer Battalion is preparing for a year-long mobilization to support security operations along the United States’ southern border.
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For the second time in the past week, shots were fired at a Tesla dealership in Tigard, police reported Thursday morning.
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The state’s 2024-2025 influenza season is the worst since Oregon Health Authority began tracking the virus 15 years ago, with people continuing to be hospitalized at a time of the year when statewide influenza activity traditionally begins winding down, state health officials said Thursday. Â
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No decision has been made regarding their future JOHN DAY, Ore. (KTVZ) — The USDA Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management said Wednesday they completed an emergency wild horse gather at the Murderers Creek Joint Management Area last month but have yet to decide on the future of the 410 horses involved. Here’s the agencies’ full
Continue ReadingBy Devyn Byers (CNN) — After a massive search, missing 2-year-old Dane Paulsen was found dead by a volunteer diver Tuesday in the Siletz River in Oregon, 10 days after the toddler disappeared from his family’s yard. Dane was found nearly three miles downstream from the Paulsen family’s property, north of Siletz, Oregon, the Lincoln
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UPDATE: Adding video SILETZ, Ore. (KTVZ) — An extensive, over week-long search for a missing Oregon Coast toddler ended sadly Tuesday with a diver’s discovery of the 2-year-old’s body in the Siletz River. Here’s the full announcement from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, posted to Facebook on Tuesday afternoon: It is with heavy hearts that
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger plan to argue at trial that the knife sheath recovered from the crime scene could have been planted by the real killer of four University of Idaho students, according to prosecutors in a new court filing. Kohberger is accused of fatally
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Rep. Janelle Bynum (OR-05)Â voted against H.R. 1968, the partisan Continuing Resolution on Tuesday as the House voted 217-213 to pass President Donald Trump’s plan to fund the government into the fall.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Pump prices continue to tick down, thanks in part to lower crude oil prices which have posted seven consecutive weeks of losses, AAA Oregon/Idaho reported Tuesday. Still, drivers can expect some volatility in gas prices due to the switch to summer-blend fuel and markets reacting to the on-again, off-again news on
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The Oregon Department of Education would have historic power to intervene in struggling schools and districts across the state under two new bills backed by Gov. Tina Kotek.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon’s unemployment rate was 4.4% in January and 4.3%, as revised, in December, after rising gradually over the past year from 4.1% in January of 2024, the state Employment Department reported Monday. Oregon’s 4.4% unemployment rate was the highest since September 2021, when the rate was also 4.4%. The U.S. unemployment
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, Jean Casarez and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Panicked conversations between two surviving roommates in the off-campus home where four University of Idaho students were murdered in 2022 were revealed in newly released text messages Thursday, shedding more light on the timeline that prosecutors aim to lean on in their case
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Jian Zhao and Li Tian, active-duty U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, along with Ruoyu Duan, a former U.S. Army soldier, were arrested Thursday following indictments by federal grand juries in the District of Oregon and the Western District of Washington. Tian and Duan were charged in the District
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WASHINGTON (NBC) — The Senate voted 66-30 Thursday to advance former Oregon congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination to be labor secretary in President Trump’s administration. Fifteen Senate Democrats voted in favor of ending debate and advancing Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination, and one GOP senator, Rand Paul of Kentucky, voted against her. Chavez-DeRemer, who lost her re-election bid to
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