A hot-air balloon made an unexpected landing in a Keizer neighborhood Friday morning. The balloon, passengers in tow, landed in the 500 block of Menlo Drive just about 8 a.m. Friday, Sept. 3. No one appeared to be injured. “We just ran out of wind and it was time to put it down,” said Jim [...]

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A man was arrested just east of Keizer after police said they found 136 marijuana plants in his Hazelgreen Road NE home. Detectives from the Keizer Police’s Community Response Unit along with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit served a search warrant at a home in the 5500 block of Hazelgreen Road NE [...]

By JASON COX Of the Keizertimes A program to help homeowners pay for sidewalk repair and installation is in the works. There’s been no official decision to create it, but Keizer city councilors asked staff at a work session earlier this month to create a framework for either a city-wide or smaller local improvement districts [...]

A farm hand discovered a marijuana grow on a farm just northwest of Keizer. The grow was discovered Friday, Aug. 27, in a field on Windsor Island Road near Simon Street. A field manager there with Chapin Farms showed Marion County Sheriff’s deputies a field where they found 42 marijuana plants growing. The plants ranged [...]

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Three people were arrested Thursday morning on drug-related charges after authorities searched a southeast Keizer apartment. Keizer Police along with Salem Police SWAT officers executed a search warrant at about 6 a.m. at an apartment in the Partridge Lane apartment complex. Officers were investigating crimes like burglary, theft and drug offenses. The three arrested were [...]

Unemployment in the Salem area was up in July. The seasonally-adjusted jobless rate was up to 10.7 percent in July, up from June’s revised rate of 10.2 percent. The number is just a bit higher than the state seasonally-adjusted jobless rate of 10.6 percent for the month, and is 0.2 percentage points lower than the [...]

Three men are in police custody following an overnight burglary in Keizer Tuesday morning. Keizer Police were called to a home in the 6400 block of 14th Avenue NE at about 3:23 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 24, “at what appeared to be a burglary in progress at a private residence there,” according to Keizer Police Capt. [...]