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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An invasive species of crab is threatening native habitat along the coastal Pacific Northwest, from Southern Oregon to British Columbia. -
A mink caught outside a farm in Oregon in mid-December has tested positive for low-levels of the coronavirus. -
This is usually the time of year when families come together to decorate their homes or share a meal. The pandemic has interrupted many of those holiday traditions — and so has this year’s wildfires. -
While some Oregon school districts are asking the state to let them start face-to-face classes, some schools in Northern California are doing just the opposite: they’re having to transition to distance learning because of staff shortages. -
The Yurok Tribe has closed its reservation in Northern California to all non-essential visitors for the next three weeks. -
The Medford school board is urging Governor Kate Brown to loosen regulations on in-person learning, despite the high number of coronavirus cases in Jackson County. -
The Black teenager was killed Nov. 23 by a white middle-aged man who confronted him for playing loud music. Ellison's death is causing soul searching in the mostly white community where he lived. -
A couple of hundred people gathered Wednesday night to remember Aidan Ellison, a Black teenager who was recently killed by a white man in Ashland during an argument over loud music. -
A 47-year-old white man pleaded not guilty on Friday to murder, manslaughter and two other charges in the death of a Black teenager outside a hotel in Ashland. -
Coronavirus cases are surging in senior care facilities across Oregon. An outbreak at one facility in Medford is topping the charts. -
Oregon state officials have announced that homes and businesses in eight counties will qualify for no-cost wildfire debris cleanup, including mobile home parks. -
Hundreds of students in Talent and Phoenix lost their homes to the Almeda Fire this September, just a week before school was supposed to start. Now some of them are showing signs of extreme stress and anxiety, causing school leaders and parents to consider resuming in-person classes again.
