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Jes Burns/OPBDetecting hearing loss in babies is kind of a Catch-22. It’s important to uncover hearing issues early to start therapies to help them develop language. But because babies don’t have language to tell you what they hear, it’s difficult to diagnose the severity of their hearing loss. -
Russell Tate of United Nations Global Call Out To Creatives via UnsplashSome Oregonians say they’re waiting days, sometimes weeks to get coronavirus test results, while others are waiting just a few minutes. So if you go get tested today, how long will you have to wait?
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The coronavirus pandemic has served to remind many of us how much we count on strangers staying healthy so we can restock our cupboards and go about daily life.
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Anna King is based in south central Washington. You may have heard her reports on JPR, covering Northwest agricultural issues. In early June, she suddenly felt ill and went to the emergency room. Here’s part of Anna’s seven-week diary of her experience with COVID-19.
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Several so-called “pumped hydro” projects are in the works, including the Swan Lake Energy Project in Klamath County. Now, there's another proposed project in south-central Washington that, if built, would be the largest such facility in the region
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This year, experts are forecasting a potentially severe wildfire season. That could mean a lot of smoke in the air at a time when we’re already trying to protect ourselves from a pandemic respiratory disease.
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COVID is spreading in Oregon, and supply issues and testing delays mean containment is a distant dream.
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Fifty years ago Oregon officials decided to blow up a dead whale. What happened next is the stuff of legend.
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New tactics to quell ongoing protests in downtown Portland appeared over the past week: federal law enforcement officers reportedly picked people up in unmarked vehicles and detained them without telling them what crime they were accused of committing
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The carefully followed death toll from COVID-19 may not fully capture the loss of life in the Pacific Northwest during the pandemic.
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As President Trump and some of his supporters continue to rail against the decades-old practice, more claims are popping up on social media either questioning vote-by-mail’s legitimacy or cheering on restrictions to it.
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If California is the nation’s laboratory for progressive laws, why has it been unable to keep the police from policing themselves?
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Forest Service Bioregional Assessment Lacks Critical Direction, Says Northwest Forest Plan Co-AuthorUniversity of Washington forest ecology professor Jerry Franklin was one of the original authors of the Northwest Forest Plan. JPR’s Erik Neumann spoke with Franklin about how the new forest service guidance marks a shift in management of 24 million acres of public forests.
