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Andrew Nixon/CapRadioState Fire Marshal Daniel Berlant outlines how Cal Fire is preparing for the peak of California’s increasingly long and unpredictable wildfire season, as millions of residents find themselves living in higher-hazard areas. -
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)President Donald Trump urged Congress to eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting during his first term, but was largely unsuccessful. Now, he's trying again, on several fronts. But the effort faces headwinds and its success is far from certain.
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Eighty-eight years after its creation by an act of Congress, Bonneville Power is widely viewed as both an engine of prosperity in the Northwest, and — at times — an obstacle to environmental goals and economic growth. -
A youth climate advocacy group in Ashland is celebrating their victory in pushing the city to enact a fee to discourage the installation of natural gas appliances in new homes. -
Restoration projects on farms and federal lands support wocus plants, which produce a prized first food. -
Teenagers in trouble will soon be offered an off-ramp to a better life, courtesy of other teens in their community. -
The unique legal status of Native American tribes creates an opportunity that some use to host high-interest, online lending companies. -
Every January, across the country, local social service groups set out to count the number of homeless people in their communities. Data from what’s called the Point in Time Count is sent to the federal government and used to decide how funding is distributed. JPR reporter Jane Vaughan recently followed one team in Grants Pass. -
Non-logging forestry work, like planting trees or fuels reduction, is big business in Oregon. But if you’re picturing those doing this work as classic lumberjacks — plaid shirts, big beards, white guys — think again. Foreign guest workers make up much of this labor. And Jackson County is a national center for the industry. -
Some students work multiple jobs and give up extracurricular activities to supplement their financial aid. Many say it’s worth it. -
The documentary "Outliers and Outlaws" is one piece of the University of Oregon's Eugene Lesbian History Project. -
The federal Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the monument, finalized a new resource management plan in early January that outlines how the government will take care of the over 100,000 acres of breathtaking landscape. -
Since the 1970s, billions of dollars in federal contracts have gone to forestry work like replanting trees or fuels reduction. Oregon has long been a center for businesses getting those contracts. But that industry looked a lot different 50 years ago. -
Holocaust survivor, Felicia Lubliner felt driven to remind us that the millions who perished were not defined by their deaths but by their lives-their joys, dreams, loves.
