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The Dungeness crab fishery generates about $170 million a year in revenue for the West Coast commercial fishing fleet.

Oregon's long-delayed commercial Dunegness crabbing season to open next week

Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab season opens Jan. 15 for much of the coast after a weekslong delay.

Britt Festival Plans Orchestra, Other Concerts

Curious: Social And Mainstream Media And The Upsizing Of Anti-Masking

The Absolute Ubiquity Of Plastic In Our Lives

Katelyn McClure, who pleaded guilty to helping her boyfriend spread a feel-good story about a homeless veteran that garnered more than $400,000 in online donations, has been sentenced to three years in prison on state theft charges.

N.J. woman gets 3 years in bogus good Samaritan online fundraiser

Katelyn McClure helped her boyfriend spread a feel-good story about a homeless veteran, garnering more than $400,000 in GoFundMe donations. She is also serving a one-year federal term.

A row of small duplex shelters in a gravel plot

Rogue Retreat interim director says nonprofit ‘grew too big’, promises reform

JPR’s Roman Battaglia sat down with Interim Executive Director Bill Ihle to find out what’s changed at the region’s largest homeless services provider since he took over in September.

State, federal and private forests in Oregon are managed for both timber and for conservation.

Oregonians express mixed feelings about benefits of logging, survey says

More than 40% of Oregon adults say the state’s forests are overlogged, but most also believe that harvesting timber is part of maintaining healthy forests, according to a recent survey.

Army vet Mike Biggs, who has worked ten years for U.S.Vets in Phoenix, on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022.

VA says it's on track to end veterans' homelessness

ENTER TEASER

U.S. infectious disease experts fear a winter surge of respiratory illness, like the one that overloaded E.R.s with COVID patients in January 2021, could yet materialize this winter, with several circulating viruses wreaking havoc. So far, though, it looks like early peaks of RSV and flu are receding.

RSV recedes and flu peaks as a new COVID variant shoots 'up like a rocket'

RSV and the flu appear to be receding in the U.S., but COVID is on the rise, new data suggests, driven by holiday gatherings and an even more transmissible omicron subvariant that has become dominant.

A bee feeds on honey from a honeycomb at a beekeeper's farm in Colina, on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, Monday, Jan. 17, 2021.

A biotech firm says the U.S. has approved its vaccine for honeybees

Global honeybee populations have been declining for many years, due to disease, loss of habitat and poor beekeeping practices. A newly approved vaccine helps fight American Foulbrood disease.

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