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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More than 24,000 Oregonians applied for federal disaster assistance after the catastrophic 2020 wildfires. About 57% of them were denied. -
Shasta County supervisors are in a tug-of-war over whether to adhere to state COVID rules. -
School officials in Jackson County are considering leasing a vacant field for developing the area’s largest temporary housing site after last year’s wildfires. -
UPDATE 4:00 p.m.: I-5 southbound is reopening with metering, according to a Caltrans spokesperson. The freeway northbound remains closed in California as road crews remove snow. -
It usually goes against social norms to pick fruit from someone’s yard without asking permission. But a nonprofit in Humboldt County wants to change that. -
The small Southern Oregon town of Phoenix is taking the lead in dismissing old traffic court debt, which can often haunt low-income people for years. -
Many victims of the Almeda Fire are now looking for housing in Medford. But the city was struggling with affordable housing even before the fire. -
In November a Black teenager in Ashland was reportedly shot and killed by a white man during an argument about loud music. Now, Aidan Ellison’s family is suing. -
Southern Oregon started out the year with new geographic names for mountains and waterways that were once offensive. -
Pro-Trump extremists mobbed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday as Congress was tabulating electoral college votes to formalize the presidential election results. -
A violent mob supporting President Donald Trump broke windows and overwhelmed police in Washington D.C. Wednesday, forcing their way into the Capitol building. Their actions drew rebukes from members of Oregon and California’s Congressional delegations, though some officials responded more forcefully than others. -
An invasive species of crab is threatening native habitat along the coastal Pacific Northwest, from Southern Oregon to British Columbia.
