Latest reporting from the Business desk.
Latest reporting from the Business desk.
Latest reporting from the Business desk.
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Salem's Slayden Constructors, a 182-employee heavy construction firm, was the only Salem-headquartered company named among 44 midsize employers on the 2026 Oregon and Southwest Washington Top Workplaces list.
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Salem's Slayden Constructors, a 182-employee heavy construction firm, was the only Salem-headquartered company named among 44 midsize employers on the 2026 Oregon and Southwest Washington Top Workplaces list.
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Salem's Slayden Constructors, a 182-employee heavy construction firm, was the only Salem-headquartered company named among 44 midsize employers on the 2026 Oregon and Southwest Washington Top Workplaces list.
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Oregon sweet cherry growers face a second straight difficult season, with 2026 prices barely above production costs and debt from 2025 still unpaid, according to OPB reporting.
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Multiple performers say To The Ceiling Entertainment left them unpaid after shows at Salem's Grand Theatre, with claims totaling thousands of dollars. Building owner Meduri Farms confirmed it removed the company over more than $100,000 in back rent and is now seeking a new tenant.
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Four Salem high school students completed Center 50+'s Teen Summer Internship by designing and hosting neighborhood events that connected teens with older adults, the city announced Monday, Aug. 31.
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The Grand Theatre in downtown Salem has shuttered after managers Andrew and Alex Hussey of To The Ceiling Entertainment exited the venue and began pursuing bankruptcy, with performers and organizations alleging more than $110,000 in unpaid bills.
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The Keizertimes published its final print edition Aug. 28 after 47 years, merging with Salem Reporter effective Sept. 1 and moving operations from Keizer to downtown Salem.
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Salem's former Rite Aid at 681 Lancaster Drive NE remains vacant more than a year after closing, one of 19 empty Oregon Rite Aid sites statewide, while the nearby Roth's Fresh Markets prepares to close around Sept. 15, leaving two major vacancies on the same north Salem retail corridor.
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Salem Health has privately settled its $6.4 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against California cancer tech company RefleXion over a radiation machine the health system alleged underperformed older equipment; settlement terms were not disclosed.
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A Salem Reporter investigation finds that Verrus, the company proposing a $5 billion data center in Salem, has never completed a data center of its own, and its only other project in Michigan faces legal threats and delays.
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The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted Aug. 14 at ODFW headquarters in Salem to require electronic vessel monitoring on all commercial Dungeness crab boats by Feb. 1, 2027, and approved experimental gear permits to reduce whale entanglements.
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Fitzpatrick Painting & Construction, a 32-year-old Willamette Valley contractor with more than 80 full-time painters, earned the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce's Aug. 12 business spotlight for its employee-first staffing model and lifetime warranty on exterior residential work.
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Victory Round, a new kickboxing and training studio at 4175 Silverton Rd NE co-owned by Deanna Tapia and Noe Ramirez, opened July 31 and offers free Monday evening kickboxing classes and affordable one-on-one personal training.
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Oregon's 16 Medicaid insurers earned $67 million collectively in 2025 after nearly breaking even the year before, buoyed by $149 million in emergency state and federal funding. The recovery stabilizes PacificSource Community Solutions, the CCO managing care for about 168,000 Medicaid enrollees in Marion and Polk counties who depend on Salem Health.
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