Mayor Julie Hoy joined a statewide business advocacy group and a Portland lawyer in an effort to repeat a 2021 Oregon law on ...

A new ballot initiative could give Oregon cities, including Portland, the power to more strictly enforce their own camping ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Salem’s homeless camping ban may have backfired. Enacted in mid-December, it first pushed people out of downtown and away from The ARCHES Project, to a brief stay at the Oregon ...

SALEM, Ore. (KPTV) - Salem is rolling back restrictions on camping due to two bills that passed two years ago and will go into effect this summer. Those bills limit the power cities and counties have ...

This story has been corrected to identify Nicole Utz as the housing administrator of the Salem Housing Authority. Salem's homeless camping ban may have backfired. Enacted in mid-December, it first ...

Homeless campers have long sought shelter at the Interstate 5 overpass on Market Street in Salem. New fencing installed by the Oregon Department of Transportation aims to end that. "It is permanent ...

SALEM, Ore. — Faced with growing homeless camps and complaints, the city of Salem is considering restrictions that would control homeless camps along public sidewalks. The city is considering banning ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Salem city councilors voted Monday night to change the city’s homeless camping rules to comply with state laws that were passed in 2021. In early 2020, the Salem City Council ...

The Salem City Council Monday voted unanimously to draft an emergency declaration to legally allow car camping in some areas of the city. "Currently, there are few legal options for vehicle-camping ...

This style of camping — straight-up camping — is what most of us remember from our childhoods. You drive to campground that’s little more than a patch of dirt in the forest, with a picnic table and ...

SALEM — Salem's homeless camping ban may have backfired. Enacted in mid-December, it first pushed people out of downtown and away from a homeless encampment outside The ARCHES Project, to a brief stay ...