The Keizer Police Department’s Traffic Safety Unit will have extra patrols in the month of April as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has declared April National Distracted Driving Awareness month.
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City Council Meeting Agenda
Keizer City Council meets on Monday, Jan. 3rd at 7 p.m. in regular session.
Help sought in arson case
An arson fire caught on a security camera damaged the West Salem offices of Lighthouse Financial Enterprises, Inc., owned by Keizer resident Phillip Gerstner.
Here’s why field burning is allowed in the Willamette Valley heat
With temperatures nearing or surpassing record levels and air quality warnings in effect, burn bans are commonplace. But there are still sometimes long plumes of smoke headed into the skies over Salem begging the question: Why? “It’s a very visible activity, you can actively see it,” said farmer Kathy Hadley[Read More…]
Keizer neighborhoods observe National Night Out
Since 1984, people in neighborhoods all over the country have left their houses, locked up behind them, and spent the first Tuesday evening in August outside with their friends, neighbors and local police officers as part of National Night Out. Keizer is known as a “city of neighborhoods,” which means[Read More…]
Federal authorities move to seize Silverton, Independence homes to break up sprawling illegal marijuana operation
Federal authorities say they found this large indoor marijuana operation in September 2021 in a home outside of Independence on Rickreall Road. (U.S. Attorney’s Office Portland) Federal authorities say a Texas man organized a sophisticated illegal trafficking operation that turned homes in Oregon into indoor marijuana plantations in places from[Read More…]
Police find multimillion-dollar marijuana operation tucked into Keizer, Salem neighborhoods
Police display some of the more than $280,000 in cash connected to a large-scale marijuana grow operation. A team led by the Keizer Police Department executed search warrants on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at homes in Salem and Keizer. (Keizer Police Department photo) Police found indoor marijuana grow operations in six[Read More…]
Salem Health CEO delivers ‘dire and grim’ update
A nurse cares for a COVID patient in the intensive care unit at Salem Hospital on Friday, Aug. 20. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Cheryl Nester Wolfe, Salem Health CEO, presented a stark view inside Salem Hospital as the COVID surge continues to swamp the state’s hospitals. “You see a young mother[Read More…]
Driving in icy conditions
With freezing weather expected to bring snow and possible ice rain to the Keizer area Thursday evening into Friday, it is good to remember tips about driving in those conditions: • Position your hands on the steering wheel at 9 o’clock and 3 o’clock or lower; • Go slow; •[Read More…]
With program under scrutiny, school resource officer explains role in Salem-Keizer school system
School resource officers have become a focus point in Salem as hundreds of community leaders, teachers and citizens have called for the Salem-Keizer School District to end its contracts with local law enforcement agencies for police in schools. The push, led by Salem youth organization Latinos Unidos Siempre, follows similar[Read More…]
