Liam Moriarty
Digital News EditorLiam Moriarty has been covering news in the Pacific Northwest for three decades. He's reported on a wide range of topics – including politics, the environment, business, social issues and more.
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 and was promoted to News Director in 2019 to oversee JPR's expanded newsroom.
Liam retired as News Director at the end of 2021. He now edits and curates the news on JPR's website and digital platforms.
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After several years of increasingly brutal fire seasons, California’s wildland firefighters are stressed and exhausted. A bipartisan group of state legislators wants to fund a major expansion of their ranks. -
It won’t surprise you to hear that getting a prescription filled in Oregon is getting more expensive each year. But according to a soon-to-be-released state report, drug price increases overall are getting fewer, and smaller. -
The price of many prescription drugs has been rising dramatically in recent years. This week, Oregonians will have a chance to give testimony about how those prices are affecting their ability to afford their medication. -
The inability to obtain key permissions from Oregon regulators was the fatal blow to the proposed 229-mile-log pipeline and LNG port. -
An Oregon-born gray wolf, which made headlines for traveling farther south in California than any known wolf in nearly a century, has died, apparently hit by a vehicle. -
As I write this column in Ashland in mid-August, I’m surrounded by fire. Just as the 413,000-acre Bootleg Fire is winding down in Klamath and Lake Counties, the even-more massive Dixie Fire in the northern Sierras has crossed half a million acres and is still going strong. -
Federal energy regulators want to take another look at the authorization they issued for the Jordan Cove Energy Project in southwest Oregon. It could be a pivotal moment for the controversial project. -
The newly-hired president of Southern Oregon University says collaboration and innovation are key to his approach to leading SOU into the future. -
Airports in Medford, Eugene and Klamath Falls are among those getting federal funds to help cover costs associated with the pandemic. -
There were no statewide races or measures on Oregon’s Election Day ballot Tuesday, but here's a round-up of results from some local measures in southwest Oregon. -
County officials say illegal cannabis operations are sprouting up all over Jackson County, outpacing local code and law enforcement efforts. -
Since California legalized cannabis in 2016, many growers in Humboldt County have struggled with the transition to the legal market. The costs of production have gone up and the price they’re paid for their harvests has plummeted. Now, the county has approved the equivalent of disaster relief. JPR’s Humboldt correspondent Daniel Mintz recently spoke with JPR’s Liam Moriarty about the cannabis crisis.
