Jenn Chávez is the host of OPB's weekly podcast, The Evergreen. Jenn has been making audio stories in Portland for 15 years as a public media and community media journalist. For six years, she ...

Earlier this summer, the federal government took back over a billion dollars that was already promised to conservation groups, farmers and ranchers. In Oregon, some of those grants would have gone to ...

Paul Marshall is a radio host and producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting. A lifelong resident of Portland, Paul was first introduced to OPB by watching PBS Kids and "PBS Newshour" as a youth ...

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The National Weather Service recently announced a La Niña watch. It's an early prediction, but if true, it could bring more rain and cooler weather to the Pacific Northwest.

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield is asking state lawmakers to find millions of dollars to help keep funding alive for programs that benefit victims of sexual assault, child abuse and domestic ...

Firefighters from the Coos Forest Protective Association are trying to save one of the world’s tallest Douglas fir, a 325-foot behemoth on the Oregon Coast known as the Doerner Fir.

One of Oregon’s largest theater companies has exceeded its immediate fundraising goal of $2.5 million - but PCS still has millions more it needs to raise in the coming months.

In this one-hour special, Rick travels back a century to learn how fascism rose and then fell in Europe — taking millions of people with it. Our goal: to learn from the hard lessons of 20th ...

Ian McCluskey is a seventh-generation Oregonian and avid outdoor enthusiast (despite once having been hit by lightning). He is passionate about telling stories from the wild and remote corners of ...

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Washington officials are responding to a letter from the federal government last week demanding they end so-called “sanctuary jurisdiction” policies — local laws stopping police from working ...