April Ehrlich
April Ehrlich joined OPB as the Weekend News Editor in November 2021. She spent the previous three years working at Jefferson Public Radio in Southern Oregon, where she was a reporter, show producer, and radio host. While there, she focused much of her reporting on wildfire coverage, including an investigation with NPR into federal disaster assistance programs and how they routinely fail people in marginalized groups.
April’s reporting has won numerous Public Media Journalists Association awards and regional Edward R. Murrow awards, as well as a national Murrow.
April grew up in the suburbs near Los Angeles. She found her passion for journalism as a teenager at her high school paper, and went on to work for campus papers at Golden West College and Cal-State University, Fullerton. Shortly after graduating, she became a full-time volunteer with AmeriCorps in St. Helens, Oregon, and Portland. She then worked as a reporter in Ontario in Eastern Oregon, as well as Roseburg and Ashland in Southern Oregon.
Latest Stories
Oregon mental health services to get over $500M spending boost this year
Oregon health officials announced Friday how they will spend more than half-a-billion dollars set aside for behavioral health services in the state.
Clackamas County ballot blunder reinvigorates false conspiracy theories against voting machines
Some voters say they want hand-count only elections, an idea pushed by former President Donald Trump and his allies.
Clackamas County clerk doesn’t know how Schrader campaign accessed elections office before opening
Election results from Oregon’s third-largest county continue to roll in slowly, as Clackamas County elections officials scramble with a ballot blunder that’s left a major race up in the air.
Amid major delays, Clackamas County leaders slam county clerk for not accepting help with blurred ballots sooner
Oregon's secretary of state has decried a lack of urgency as unopened Clackamas County ballots pile up.
Hundreds rally in support of abortion rights in downtown Portland
More than a thousand Portlanders rallied in downtown on Saturday as part of the national Bans Off Our Bodies movement supporting abortion access.
Judge ends Oregon ban on real estate ‘love letters’
A federal judge on Wednesday concluded that Oregon’s law banning real estate “love letters” is unconstitutional.
Oregon wildfires are worsening. But fire prevention doesn’t look like a top priority for governor candidates
Oregon wildfires have become increasingly catastrophic every year, and scientists say they’re only going to get worse. But you wouldn’t know it by following the state’s gubernatorial primary.
Keizer Pride Fair canceled due to safety concerns
The town recently hosted a right-wing extremist rally that drew thousands of people.
How the fate of Roe v. Wade could impact Oregonians
If early reports suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade bear out, people living near the Oregon-Idaho border could find it much harder to access surgical abortion care.
String of shootings, crashes lead Portland police to limit responses
A string of car crashes and shootings strained call volumes in Portland Friday night, to the extent that Portland police had to limit their responses to only life-threatening calls.