We hear from two participants involved in a prescribed fire training program taking place in the Deschutes National Forest in Central Oregon.

Tax burdens are piling up for small business owners in Portland as they face fees from the city, county and state.

Workforce development opportunities can be expensive and difficult to arrange for communities in rural Oregon. We’ll hear how officials in different parts of the state are using virtual reality headsets to bring those opportunities to more people.

The house that served as the focal point of the 1985 movie “The Goonies” is perhaps Astoria’s best known landmark. It’s certainly been a draw for fans and tourists who come to pay homage. Since the house was sold in January, conflict about the increased traffic in the neighborhood has been renewed.

Karen Gibson, an emeritus professor at Portland State University, joins us with a history of the Albina neighborhood.

Pacific Northwest timber giant Weyerhaeuser says its trees remove about 14 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year.

Last month, the Clark County public health department issued a warning about a cluster of suspected opioid overdoses which were treated in emergency room departments in Vancouver.

A new audit from the Oregon secretary of state’s office found that overly strict regulations are making it expensive for people to run cannabis businesses and preventing others from joining the industry. The audit comes at an awkward time for Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, the Democrat whose office carried out the study, because the same day the audit was released, Willamette Week reported that Fagan has been working as a private consultant for an Oregon-based affiliate of a cannabis chain.

Until this year, a wolverine hadn't been spotted outside of the Wallowa Mountains in more than three decades.

The county is experiencing a shortage of public defenders.

The Gem Theatre in Athena, Oregon, stood empty for 55 years. For the past two decades, a group of residents have raised nearly $2 million and volunteered a countless number of hours to bring the theater back to its former glory.

We hear from Peter Graven, the lead data scientist at Oregon Health & Science University, about a new COVID variant and its impact on state hospitalizations in the coming months.

The practice uses refrigeration to store excess queen bees indoors. The bees can be used later to supplement hives.

Portland singer-songwriter Shireen Amini is one of 16 musicians around the country featured on a new collaborative album called "Hope Rises II." She also runs community song circles as part of what she calls "music medicine." She joins us in studio to tell us more and play some of her songs.

Researchers at the University of Washington say the liquid acts as a kind of lubricant between tectonic plates. While it doesn’t mean that an earthquake is imminent, the seep could give researchers more insight into how the Cascadia Subduction Zone functions.

The Good Food Awards, which celebrate products that are "tasty, authentic and responsible," recently moved to Portland after more than a decade in San Francisco.

We hear from the editor of the Source Weekly, an independent newspaper based in Bend, on why it chose to make, for the first time in its history, endorsements in an upcoming library board election.

The number of vehicles impounded in the city of Eugene tripled from 2020 to 2022. Advocates for people experiencing homelessness say that cars, recreational vehicles, campers and other vehicles serving as makeshift homes make up a significant portion of what’s impounded.

In Eugene, homeless campers in city parks are being given just two hours notice to move. Now Eugene’s Human Rights Commission is questioning why the city council and mayor were not informed of this change and plans to hold public listening sessions on the matter.

Three candidates are on the ballot this spring to fill the open seat on the Multnomah County Commission. The seat, which represents Southeast Portland, was vacated when Jessica Vega Peterson won the election to Multnomah County Chair last fall.