The COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely hard on health care workers. They’re struggling with mental health issues, stress and the complex emotions that go along with treating people who chose not to get vaccinated. We hear from two people who provide support to doctors, nurses and hospital staff.

A once rare strain of salmonella found in poultry has spread largely unchecked, according to reporting by ProPublica.

In some rural parts of the state, Oregon residents have formed Rangeland Fire Protection Associations.

The COVID-19 pandemic is having dramatic impacts on the well-being of our youth in many ways. School districts are struggling to maintain safe learning environments for their students, staff and teachers. For many young people, the most significant impacts are on their mental health. And even if we’ve turned some corners in the pandemic, the emotional effects linger. We held a live Zoom conversation recently, where we heard directly from students, from mental health professionals, and from participants in a youth support circle.

We listen back to two conversations about short story collections today.

We listen back to a conversation with the author of “Let the Great World Spin” and “Transatlantic.” We spoke to Colum McCann in 2017 about his book “Thirteen Ways of Looking.”

Author and illustrator Kristin Radtke started working on a book about loneliness in 2016, four years before a global pandemic made the topic even more pressing and personal for all of us.

Reynolds Middle School is not alone in facing challenges related to student behavior and delays in social-emotional learning after more than a year of online school.

Grants Pass High School students walked out in protest of their school board's recent decision to reinstate two educators who were fired after promoting transphobic policies.

Invasive green crab populations have been growing steadily on the Oregon coast. Green crabs are threatening Dungeness crabs, other sea life and impacting coastal habitats all along the west coast. Scientists say is people want to help, they should eat the invasive crabs!

Learning a new language can already be difficult, but how did going online affect students in English as a second language programs?

Last week, environmental organizers said they defied a U.S. Forest Service closure in order to block potential logging in the Willamette National Forest. Daniel Johnson is an organizer with the Cascadia Forest Defenders and joins us with details.

Researchers have been trying to determine what the extreme heat events of this summer did to trees in the short term, and what it might mean for the long term health of forests.

COVID-19 continues to impact the mental health of children and youth. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has declared a “national emergency” on children’s mental health, with the pandemic exacerbating many pre-existing challenges.

For people with healthy, low-risk pregnancies, water births are associated with better outcomes overall than non-water births. That’s according to Oregon State University researchers who have conducted the largest study of water births to date.

We hear one mother's story about dealing with mental illness, civil commitment and the criminal justice system.

As educators struggle to maintain safe learning environments, many of the emotional effects of the pandemic are still ongoing. For some, the stress of uncertainty is compounded by the return to in-person learning and the weight of academic expectations. Add in the larger concerns about climate change and the politically divisive atmosphere, and you get what could be called an anxious generation.

The state of Oregon is halting its rental assistance program, despite receiving thousands of applications weekly from people seeking the state’s help to stay in their homes as winter approaches.

Across Southern Oregon, illegal marijuana farms have caused environmental issues in areas already facing drought. Now they’ve raised humanitarian concerns as immigrant agricultural workers deal with working conditions.

Aceia “Ace” Spade began pageantry at the age of 3. While she is originally from Alabama, she moved to Eugene and at 15 was crowned Oregon’s Miss Juneteenth.