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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Many local workers and entrepreneurs are struggling to deal with an overburdened unemployment bureaucracy that's hard to navigate, and that sometimes completely fails to deliver badly needed help. -
Conservationists say the U.S. Forest Service isn’t properly managing grazing in the Klamath Mountains, resulting in damage to critical habitat for Coho salmon. -
Some Oregonians say they’re waiting days, sometimes weeks to get coronavirus test results, while others are waiting just a few minutes. So if you go get tested today, how long will you have to wait? -
About nine positive cases have stemmed from two separate clusters at the Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford. -
Layoffs and furloughs have caused many people to seek help from Oregon’s food pantries amid the coronavirus pandemic. With federal unemployment benefits ending this Saturday, Oregon Food Bank leaders say demand for food assistance will likely increase. -
The federal Paycheck Protection Program is supposed to do just that: protect employee’s paychecks from the economic impact of the coronavirus. But some businesses like the Oregon Shakespeare Festival can’t rehire workers if there’s no work to be done. -
Police officers often deal with cases involving drug addiction, mental illness, and homelessness. These often require skills that are more like social work than law enforcement. But is using police the best way to deal with social issues such as homelessness in Jackson County? -
Jackson and Josephine counties have seen a spike of more than two-dozen confirmed coronavirus cases in a single week that health officials are tracing to two small, private parties. -
Three geographic features in Southern Oregon all have the words “dead indian” in their names, but that could change. -
Contact tracing is a crucial part of getting a handle on the coronavirus. But Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is warning people to watch out for scammers who are posing as contact tracers. -
Some Shasta County residents are bringing attention to a case in which a black man died suspiciously in the late 1990s. This is following several recent deaths in which black men died by hanging. -
When a natural disaster like a wildfire hits, the Red Cross usually sets up an emergency shelter at a school gym or church. But the coronavirus pandemic will change that.
