April Ehrlich
Oregon Public BroadcastingApril Ehrlich is JPR content partner at Oregon Public Broadcasting. Prior to joining OPB, she was a regional reporter at Jefferson Public Radio where she won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for her reporting on the impacts of wildfires on marginalized groups. Her reporting comes to JPR through the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.
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A new wildfire hazard tool developed by a national lab could be integrated into the state of California’s fire codes. -
The Grants Pass-based coffee chain Dutch Bros has had a wildly successful first couple of days on Wall Street. -
The Grants Pass-based coffee chain Dutch Bros plans to go public, which could turn one of its founders into a billionaire. -
A major health clinic in Douglas County is promoting misinformation about the coronavirus just as the region is experiencing a massive surge of patients that have filled intensive care units beyond capacity. -
The ongoing pandemic interrupted the biggest commemoration event planned for the first anniversary of the Almeda and South Obenchain Fires. So, people are remembering the fires in their own ways. -
A group of Oregon physicians is calling on Oregonians to take safety precautions if they’re planning events this Labor Day weekend. -
Southern Oregon University announced it’s moving back to remote learning for the first few weeks of the Fall term because hospitals in the region are overwhelmed with coronavirus patients. -
Homes in rural areas of the Klamath Basin have lost running water as their wells fail. Part of the reason: more farmers and ranchers are pumping water from underground than any other year, because they didn’t get any irrigation water from a nearby lake. -
About 150 National Guard soldiers arrived in Medford Friday morning to help local hospitals that are overwhelmed with coronavirus patients. -
Hospital workers in Grants Pass say their morgue is full as a result of a surge in coronavirus cases. Even so, county leaders remain reluctant to promote potentially life-saving health measures. -
Asante and Providence Hospitals in Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass say they’re beyond capacity in the face of a flood of new cases of the Delta variant. -
Jackson County has asked the state to help with a surge of coronavirus cases that’s overwhelming hospitals in Jackson and Josephine counties.
