Emily Cureton
Central Oregon Bureau Chief | OPBEmily Cureton is OPB’s Central Oregon Bureau Chief. She's the former producer of the Jefferson Exchange on JPR and has contributed award-winning programming to Georgia Public Broadcasting. She began her career as a journalist reporting for community newspapers like the Del Norte Triplicate in Crescent City, California, and the Big Bend Sentinel in Marfa, Texas. Emily graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with degrees in history, studio art and Russian. Among other adventures, she’s driven a van from Oregon to Costa Rica and hiked from the California coast to the Pacific Crest in Ashland. Send her feedback and story ideas at ecureton@opb.org.
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An attempt by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to detain two men in Bend did not go as planned Wednesday afternoon, after hundreds of protesters stalled the action for more than 10 hours, leading to a standoff with Border Patrol agents later that night. -
Frustration over 'unattainable' metrics leads to negotiations between state officials and rural leaders.
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Resentments over restrictions boiled over in rural communities with few COVID-19 cases, as local leaders watch large crowds demonstrate for racial equality while church and other gatherings remain prohibited.
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In Central Oregon, an all-Republican county commission is challenging Democratic Gov. Kate Brown’s authority to limit the size of faith gatherings during the pandemic.
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Republican Cliff Bentz won his party’s nomination Tuesday in Oregon’s 2nd Congressional District, a GOP stronghold unlikely to flip for the Democrats in November.
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Traditional politics are out. And no one is certain what the winning strategy will be in Oregon's only GOP stronghold.
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Some Oregonians are using social media to organize care for neighbors during the coronavirus outbreak. A Facebook group in Bend is teeming with requests and offers to help with childcare and errands.
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The director of clinical services for Harney District Hospital in Burns, Oregon, has a side hustle that cashes in on medical conspiracy theories.
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Some residents are so frustrated with Democratic politics that they are trying to change the map so that most of Oregon and a chunk of Northern California would break off and join red-state Idaho.
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American's coffee obsession relies on just one part of the coffee plant: the seed. More often than not, the edible fruit surrounding the pit is thrown away. A Bend cafe has found new uses for all that food waste.
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City of Bend utility customers were notified Tuesday of a data breach that may have compromised credit card information last fall.
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Groundwater in southeastern Oregon is drying up. Farming, which uses a lot of that water, could decimate the region unless communities make drastic changes soon.
