Kristian Foden-Vencil
Oregon Public BroadcastingKristian Foden-Vencil is a reporter and producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting. He specializes in health care, business, politics, law and public safety. Kristian has won a Peabody Award along with awards from the Associated Press, Society of Professional Journalists and the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors. He graduated from the University of Westminster in London.
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This election more than two thirds of Oregon’s counties will vote on whether to opt out of the state’s new psilocybin therapy program. The debate is largely a rural discussion, and in some places, there’s not much discussion at all.
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Beach towns up and down the West Coast have feral cats living near the waterfront. But animal lovers increasingly say the colonies aren’t good for cats or cat lovers.
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Homelessness used to mainly be a problem for bigger cities. But nowadays, a mixture of high housing costs, the pandemic, and a lack of mental health services, means homeless camps are popping-up in smaller towns too.
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Authorities are warning people about chilly river temperatures as the heat begins to build this weekend.
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Indigenous medicine and drug policy groups are joining together to form a new nonprofit. They want to promote and preserve the use of traditional medicines like psychedelic mushrooms, peyote and iboga.
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The larger breeds don’t necessarily fight wolves, but they do help alert ranchers to predators lurking nearby
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After decades of traditional economic development efforts, authorities are now trying some unusual experiments to spur activity in rural Oregon.
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The seven-day moving average of COVID cases has risen from about 230 a few weeks ago, to 421 this week. On Wednesday alone, 605 cases were reported to the Oregon Health Authority.
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The United States House of Representatives will vote next week on whether to stop listing cannabis as a controlled substance.
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Oregonians who have expressed an interest in taking psilocybin are more interested in using the drug for general wellbeing than depression or anxiety, according to a new data from the Oregon Health Authority.
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Oregon releases draft rules for how to set up new psilocybin system, and there are some surprises.
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After erosion brought the ocean more than 100 feet closer to the Pine Beach neighborhood over the last 30 years, homeowners built barriers known as rip rap. Environmentalists say Tillamook County is tossing out years of land-use precedent by allowing the erosion controls. Residents say they followed all the rules.