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A program in Southern Oregon gives high school students hands-on experience in ecological restoration. Despite federal funding challenges, the program has thrived this year.

Clean-energy projects have new deadlines for federal tax credits and limits on foreign parts, taking aim at California’s climate agenda. Eleven major solar projects and one onshore wind project now face potential delays or cancellation.

Lower-income people will be the hardest hit. Over the next 10 years, 3.4 million Californians could lose coverage.

If you go to prison in Oregon as a juvenile, your record is typically wiped clean when you leave. But if you have tattoos like gang symbols — or something else inappropriate — that record could still follow you. One program is trying to give kids a clean slate.

With 7 of its most ambitious rules for cars, trucks and trains repealed, California officials now must find new ways to clean up the nation’s worst air pollution. But officials face growing pushback about affordability and costs.

Martin Majkut has conducted and studied music around the world, but in Oregon, he’s been known since 2010 as the adventurous, growth-oriented music director of the Rogue Valley Symphony. He also has a long-standing collaboration with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Now, he's adding another title -- music director of the Oregon Coast Music Festival. He recently shared his packed performance calendar with JPR’s Vanessa Finney.

Layoffs appear certain. But a lot more could happen, too.

Congressional Republicans have passed their sweeping domestic policy bill. In Oregon, the impacts of the legislation will be significant.

In Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego, homeless Californians describe their experiences over the past year as camping ban enforcement has increased.

Four dams fell. Now, Indigenous youth are paddling the Klamath from source to sea, reclaiming a river — and a part of themselves.

For decades, the West Coast Game Park Safari in Bandon attracted visitors traveling along the Oregon coast. That was until local, state and federal agencies raided the business this spring. Court documents and interviews with former employees reveal some of what is alleged to have been going on at this roadside zoo.

A CalMatters investigation found that courts didn’t report hundreds of vehicular manslaughter convictions to the DMV, prompting officials to belatedly take many drivers’ licenses.