Here's how many calls for assistance Marion and Polk county sheriffs' have received from federal agencies related to ...

Oregon Constitution says county must elect treasurer, not decide what it does. The Oregon Constitution says that the county treasurer, clerk and sheriff must be elected by voters in general ...

A Salem man has been sentenced to prison after a deadly ambush involving a Polk County Deputy, authorities announced Thursday.

Marion County was originally named the Champooick District, after the Champoeg, a Willamette River meeting place. Its county seat is Salem, Oregon's state capital. The county was created in 1843 and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Salem man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, then crashing a car with her body inside, appeared in court Friday. Polk County deputies found the body of 35 year-old ...

Polk County will hold a public hearing Feb. 10 for a franchise for the proposed regional solid waste transfer facility in Rickreall. The public can testify in person at the hearing scheduled to ...

Function now meets beauty at the restored Historic Polk County Courthouse in Des Moines. Nearly a decade — and $40 million — in the making, county officials unveiled the renovated 116-year-old ...

A Salem man was sentenced June 26 stemming from a 2023 incident that began with a traffic stop and ended in a shootout with ...

It really has," said Angela Connolly, Polk County Supervisor.In 2013, county residents voted to approve a bond to pay for the restoration of the historic courthouse and two other court buildings ...

Weekly county case data prior to Jan. 2021 was not reported by the C.D.C. and is sourced from reporting by The New York Times. The C.D.C. stopped reporting data on cases in May 2023.

According to estimates in a Polk County staff report, increases on residential garbage rates would be between $4.91 and $3.67 ...

KOIN Portland. Ex-boyfriend of slain woman found in trunk after crash appears in Polk County court. Posted: February 1, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 ...