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L’eaux Stewart/All throughout California, communities have weathered the impacts of a changing climate from rising ocean waters to intense wildfire seasons. But studies don’t often account for tribes’ experiences with climate change because of the “academic-based” approach of Western science. -
Rob Manning/OPBDoes a standardized test really prove Oregon students can read, write, and do math?
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YIMBYs and NIMBYs are battling over legislation to allow more duplexes, but some experts downplay its impact on California housing. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill as part of an affordable housing package. -
Following hours of testimony and accusations of gerrymandering, the state's majority party unveiled maps it says meet "the highest legal standards." An analysis tool suggests the plan biased.
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It’s a bad time to get sick in Oregon. That’s the message from some doctors, as hospitals full of COVID-19 patients mean other medical conditions are going untreated.
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The ongoing pandemic interrupted the biggest commemoration event planned for the first anniversary of the Almeda and South Obenchain Fires. So, people are remembering the fires in their own ways.
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This week marks a year since wildfires destroyed thousands of homes in Jackson County over the Labor Day weekend.
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The once-a-decade redistricting process will begin in earnest Friday, when lawmakers give their first pitch for how to reshape the state's political landscape.
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The increasing size and severity of wildfires is producing anxiety on the Warm Springs reservation about the next big fire.
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Proponents of a heftier, coordinated grid assess its importance – — and barriers to their visions.
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COVID-19 burnout is driving many nurses to quit, and hospital administrators say the state’s new vaccine mandate is compounding the shortage, too.
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YIMBYs and NIMBYs are battling over legislation to allow more duplexes, but some experts downplay its impact on California housing.
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A cemetery often evokes images of mahogany coffins, ornate headstones and embalmed bodies. That’s not the case for The Forest Conservation Burial Ground, the first burial ground in Oregon that is completely dedicated to green burials. JPR's Sophia Prince recently took a tour ...
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Homes in rural areas of the Klamath Basin have lost running water as their wells fail. Part of the reason: more farmers and ranchers are pumping water from underground than any other year, because they didn’t get any irrigation water from a nearby lake.
