FIVE RIVERS, Ore. (AP) – To help restore coho salmon in Benton County, fish biologists are turning to the fish’s bushy-tailed ally: beavers. The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports beavers are critical to coho habitat by giving young salmon cover while they bulk up before setting out to sea for a year […]

AP-OR–3rd NewsMinute,275 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Five people have been sent to a hospital in critical condition from a three-alarm apartment fire in Salem. KGW reports two adults and two children were rescued from one unit and one adult from […]

AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute,279 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland’s gang enforcement team and detectives with Vancouver’s safe streets task force have arrested a man in Vancouver who is suspected of a shooting in Portland. The Columbian reports the 36-year-old was arrested on […]

AP-OR–1st NewsMinute,288 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) – When Colton Harris-Moore broke into Kyle Ater’s grocery store in Washington’s San Juan Islands, he wrote a message in chalk on the floor: “C-Ya!” Turns out the Barefoot Bandit was right. Harris-Moore will see Ater […]

AP-OR–3rd NewsMinute,308 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A Portland teen admits he was wrong to steal a shirt, but he’s fighting the consequences – deportation to Mexico. Gustavo Romero-Alvarez tells KATU he has no memory of Mexico. He was brought to […]