Liam Moriarty
News DirectorLiam Moriarty has been covering news in the Pacific Northwest for more than 25 years. He's reported on a wide range of topics – including politics, the environment, business, social issues and more – for newspapers, magazines, public radio and digital platforms.
Liam was JPR News Director from 2002 to 2005, reporting and producing the Jefferson Daily regional news magazine. After covering the environment in Seattle, then reporting on European issues from France, he returned to JPR in 2013 to cover the stories and issues that are important to the people of Southern Oregon and Northern California.
Liam was promoted to JPR News Director on May 1, 2019.
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A decade-old plan to remove four dams on the Klamath River just hit a major road bump. -
A group of landowners who may be forced to sell their land to the proposed Jordan Cove natural gas pipeline is asking a federal court to shut the project down.
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We live in interesting times … pandemic, economic disaster, civil unrest, extreme partisanship.
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The US Supreme Court has declined to take up a Klamath Basin water dispute that goes back nearly two decades.
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Several hundred people rallied and marched through downtown Medford Saturday afternoon. They came to express their anger at the deaths of black people at the hands of police, and to support justice for people of color.
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In 2013, Oregon's Coquille Indian tribe asked the federal government to take action that would allow the tribe to open a casino in Medford. After years of silence, the answer finally came last week … “No.”
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The recent death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer prompted hundreds to turn out for a pair of rallies in downtown Ashland on Sunday.
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The next phase of the controversial Jordan Cove Energy Project is now moving to the federal courts. Opponents say the proposal doesn’t meet state and federal environmental laws.
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From restaurants to retail shops, businesses have begun to reopen two months after Governor Kate Brown ordered them shuttered to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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Federal energy officials say they won’t reconsider their conditional approval of a liquified natural gas pipeline and coastal export terminal in Southern Oregon.
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Skarlatos will face DeFazio, Spenser will take on Bentz to fill Greg Walden's shoes, no new jail for Jackson County and more.
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More businesses are beginning to re-open their doors, after the state began easing restrictions last Friday after two months of pandemic-related shutdowns. For many, it’s a bumpy road.
