Sweet Home News

Firefighters from the Oregon Department of Forestry and Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District douse flames in a pickup truck in a mown hayfield at 40270 Crawfordsville Drive, behind Holley School early ...

A 77-year-old Sweet Home man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly tried to suffocate a 99-year-old female acquaintance.

A 77-year-old Sweet Home man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly tried to suffocate a 99-year-old female acquaintance.

A 77-year-old Sweet Home man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly tried to suffocate a 99-year-old woman.

The nonprofit envisions it as a new site for Sweet Home Charter School SWEET HOME - People Involved in Education is purchasing the Sweet Home Elks Lodge at 440 Osage St.

How many people can honestly say they've never yearned to find buried treasure? Most of us get a kick out of seeing a quarter on the sidewalk, but secretly, we hope to someday come across some real loot: A ...

This is helicopter logging of a different sort. Forest Service Road 2025, about a three-mile stretch of road along Moose Creek off Highway 20 just over two miles east of Cascadia State Park, will be closed next ...

Nintendo's latest video game system, the Wii, is proving to be popular among adults as well as kids.

Members of the 2008 Sportsman's Holiday Court, right, enjoy the Grand Parade aboard their float Saturday.

Alyssa Logan was named queen of the Sportsman's Holiday Court Thursday night. "I feel very excited and very proud because I worked hard for it, and I feel honored to be queen," Logan said.

Representatives of the Sweet Home Singing Christmas Tree received a check for $292 from proceeds of the Honoring the American Man Dinner and Awards at the Sweet Home Elks on June 14.

Like many fair organizers, the Linn County Fair Board faces a challenge in figuring out how to offer entertainment that appeals to local folks while maintaining the agricultural emphasis that is what fairs are ...

Tristan Varner gets a ride in a Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District engine last week from Fire Chief Mike Beaver , part of an effort to make what probably will be Tristan's final days as enjoyable as ...

When you call Bob Hanus an old-school evangelist, it really means old school, like the New Testament apostles or Jesus Christ themselves.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began lowering water in the Foster Reservoir near Sweet Home Wednesday to repair the dam's spillway gates, officials said.

The Richard Bryan Smith who moved to Sweet Home in 2006 is 5-foot-7 and weighs about 125 pounds.

Sweet Home voters generally matched up to Linn County voters in the May 20 primary election, according to recently completed summaries of local precinct voting released by the County Elections Office.

The 2008 Sportsman's Holiday queen will be crowned in the annual coronation ceremony to be held Thursday, July 10, at the Sweet Home Elks Lodge.

The swirling vortex of honeybees was a curiosity for most folks walking through the Sweet Home Post Office parking lot, but for local beekeepers it was an opportunity.

Tracy Colleen Smith says she joined the Sportsman's Holiday Court to allow herself to learn more about her community.