Alex Baumhardt
Oregon Capital ChronicleAlex Baumhardt is a JPR content partner from the Oregon Capital Chronicle. Before that Alex was a national radio producer focusing on education for American Public Media. She has reported from the Arctic to the Antarctic for national and international media, and from Minnesota and Oregon for The Washington Post.
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Oregon would join 15 other states that have proposed data center pauses in the last year. -
‘Oregon asks for the Utah clock,’ Gov. Tina Kotek wrote in a letter for immediate and robust aid to Oregon farmers and ranchers hit by wildfires. -
A new management plan for Oregon’s western state-owned forests is one of two recent plans the Board of Forestry approved to boost conservation and reduce logging. -
The State Lands Department is updating rules for companies that run cables through Oregon’s territorial sea and proposing higher fees to go to the Common School Fund. -
On the fifth and final day of a weeklong trial between the wholesale distribution industry and the state, recycling experts poked holes in one another’s research. -
Wholesalers sued the state last year, effectively halting the rollout of Oregon’s new package disposal and recycling charges for companies. -
The potential super El Niño event this fall and winter could bring much needed rains to the region, experts said. -
The proposal from the Oregon Department of Education would ‘shift from enforcing attendance through prescribed sanctions,’ officials explained. -
Oregon lawmakers approve millions in emergency spending on public safety, wells, university solvencyLegislative leaders said their focus was to spending on public safety, including drought and wildfire preparedness and response. -
While Oregon’s first 2026 heatwave is winding down Tuesday, heat and drought are expected to worsen through the summer and will heighten wildfire risks across Oregon. -
About one in five Chinook juveniles tested in the Upper Klamath River near the Oregon-California border were infected with lethal levels of the parasite. -
When the Oregon Legislature in 2025 passed new road user fees for electric vehicle owners, it left out commercial and medium-duty EVs.
