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In his new book, The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene, George Steinmetz offers a bird's eye view of the mark humans have made on the global landscape.

How many more might recover, if they had a loved one by their side while fighting for life? An only son aches for the healing power of human touch in his mother's last days, and at her funeral.

Access to testing is still uneven in the nation's largest state. Even as some urban counties offer tests to anyone who wants one, a rural county is testing raw sewage to track the virus.

Rural counties throughout Oregon and California are requesting that Governors Brown and Newsom allow them to reopen businesses, even as COVID-19 continues to spread. Without a vaccine, a crucial public health tool to manage the disease is contact tracing.

Cass Ingram is a believer in marijuana as a healing agent. But there's room in his heart and in his osteopathic practice for other herbs, as well. Dr.…

Sunshine Week leads us straight into spring, but it's really not about the sun shining in the sky. Sunshine Week celebrates openness in government--the…

Blast from the Past: enjoying the night sky is one of the features of living in the State of Jefferson. The lack of gigantic cities and the corresponding…

The 2020 Tiny Desk Contest closed for entries on April 27. As we comb through entries to find our winner, we're sharing songs that help us feel connected in this time of isolation and uncertainty.

Before the advent of “talkies” in 1927, silent films entertained audiences with dialogue created by gestures, mime or title cards. At the height of the…

Knight has written a series of books about "mental decluttering" — her latest is called F*ck No! "Most people will take no for an answer much more easily than you think they will," she says.