The two-day, 197-mile running relay from Mount Hood to Seaside known as Hood to Coast has concluded for another year.

Frances Benthin of Scio has lost count of the many times she's won the Best Donut Contest at the Oregon State Fair. "I enter just to see if I can do it."

Two teens were charged with felony murder Sunday for allegedly stabbing a man to death in a parking lot at Lancaster Mall.

There are changes afoot in conferences that contain area small colleges.

Members of the Salem Kiwanis Club will hear several committee reports at the group's next meeting Tuesday.

Three local students have been selected to serve on the State Schools Superintendent's Youth Advisory Team this school year.

There are hard-core competitors, both men and women, at the Stihl Timbersports Championship events at the Oregon State Fair this weekend. Then there's world-title holder boom-runner Jenny Atkinson.

As state agencies and workers gird themselves for across-the-board spending cuts — the second round in just three months — some things are certain and some are not.

It's last-call time for the Rodgers brothers at Oregon State. One more season for Beavers fans to appreciate the big-play capabilities of James and Jacquizz Rodgers in tandem.

Randy Dibble's voice invokes followers. When he holds the microphone, 32 heads turn toward him, waiting.

CHALMETTE, La. — Hundreds of mourners dropped notes, cards and letters — many of them stained with tears — into a steel-gray casket on Saturday in a symbolic burial of Hurricane Katrina.

There are an estimated 3,335 people in Aumsville, and midday Saturday it seemed like half of them were at the city park waiting in line for corn.

Salem residents will get to weigh in on more than a dozen annexations during the Nov. 2 election.

Most of us, thankfully, will never have to seek emergency shelter from domestic violence or sexual abuse.

The scent of flowers mixed with the aroma of exotic sauces and barbecued chicken Saturday in the Floral Garden at the Oregon State Fair.

The groundwork has begun for a new reservoir for Monmouth to be in place by next spring.

It was just one victory, but it could prove to be a whole lot bigger than that.

Despite the dust, moving vans and construction materials outside some local schools, the buildings will be ready for students after a summer blitz of remodeling.

The suspense is over. Darron Thomas was named the starting quarterback Friday for Oregon's season opener against New Mexico.

Evidence allegedly identifying Joshua Turnidge as the man who made a threatening call to a Woodburn bank the day of a fatal bombing in 2008 will not be used in trial, a judge ruled Friday.