Oregon City police arrested a local man Thursday on suspicion of intentionally setting fire to the shuttered Blue Heron paper ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Bias and hate crime reporting remain on the rise in Oregon, with reports soaring over 200% from 2020 to 2023, according to an annual report released by the Oregon ...

With the rising numbers of hate crime reports in Oregon, it’s crucial Lincoln County and the state send “a clear response,” he said. “We can do better.” -- Aimee Green; agreen@oregonian ...

In this file photo from 2010, Oregon small business ... as well as the state Department of Education. It also recommends creating a treatment program for bias crime perpetrators.

At the state level, incidents reported to the Oregon Department of Justice ranged from ... but they probably couldn’t be proved as a crime, primarily because of the First Amendment or because ...

A report from the Oregon Attorney General ... Continued efforts to educate the community about Oregon’s bias crime laws, the Hotline and the resources available to victims and survivors.

As a state, Oregon ranks 35th in the country in violent crime and 18th in property crime. Oregon reports 2.5 violent crimes per 1,000 people and 31.41 property crimes per 1,000, which are both ...

The incident occurred in downtown Salem on the evening of Sunday, June 1 Eleven people have been injured after a mass ...

Anyone with information about a hate crime can call the Oregon Department of Justice’s non-emergency Bias Response Hotline at 1-844-924-BIAS (1-844-924-2427), the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI ...

The economic impact of crime in Oregon was an estimated $14.9 billion in 2023, according to a report released by the Common Sense Institute this week. That is a cost of $3,509 per Oregon resident.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon and Washington saw some of the highest rates of motor vehicle theft in the U.S. in 2022, crime statistics released by the FBI on Oct. 16 show. The state with the ...

From shootings to sexual assault, Black people are greatly overrepresented as victims of violent crime—and that’s ... and found 75% of them did not report the incident because they feared ...