We hear more from a community organizer based in Portland.

What started out as one diver collecting “river treasures” of forgotten phones and iPads has turned into a YouTube channel dedicated to finding missing people. The group, Adventures with Purpose, is a four-man team starring two Oregonians, Jared Leisek and Doug Bishop.

OPB's K-12 education reporter, Elizabeth Miller, joins us to talk about her recent reporting that shows teachers and students are struggling in Portland middle schools after returning to in-person instruction in the fall.

Wild Woman is an art collaboration that highlights women’s empowerment.

This year’s competition featured more than 10,000 entries from breweries across the globe. Oregon’s breweries took home multiple prizes.

We hear from winner's in Tuesday's primary contests and get an update on the Idaho annexation proposal that was voted on yesterday by three Oregon counties.

NW Natural provides methane gas to about 2.5 million people in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Regulators approved a 13% rate increase last year, and now the company is asking for a similar hike. If approved, that would mean customers would see their bills rise by about 25% over a one-year period.

Like everything else, honors classes in the Salem-Keizer school district were upended during the pandemic. But when students came back into the building, the district took advantage of the opportunity to re-work the way it offers honors classes. Now, instead of separate classes, honors students sit alongside their peers doing “embedded honors.”

A University of Washington astronomer shares why exponentially increasing satellite launches threaten observations of the night sky for astronomers and amateur sky gazers.

An Oregon pediatrician says he’s been talking to his patients about practical solutions and counseling them on ignoring judgmental comments on social media about feeding babies with formula. And the Northwest Mothers Milk Bank has been fielding more calls from people interested in donating breast milk due to the nationwide shortage of infant formula, according to its executive director.

A series of surveys conducted by the Oregon Values and Beliefs Center found a rise in hate crime and harassment incidents against Asian Americans in Oregon. Nearly half of all the Asian Americans surveyed said they heard someone use a racial slur, epithet or degrading language against them or a family member or both. A third of those surveyed reported reducing the amount of time they spend in the community because of a race-based bias incident or hate crime.

Portlander Bill Oakley may be most famous for the joke he wrote about hamburgers in his time writing for the Simpsons. So perhaps it makes sense that he has spent the last year focusing on hamburgers in a different way. He’s been reviewing fast food on Instagram. We listen back to a conversation with Oakley from 2019.

To increase the number of available shelter beds for people experiencing homelessness, the City of Bends is considering amendments to its development laws. These changes would help define three different types of shelters that can be built in the city and make it easier to operate a shelter.

A group of activists known as Redwood Forest Defense has been occupying treetops in northern California as a form of non-violent protest to block the logging of redwood forests.

Freelance journalist Erika Bolstad shares her recent reporting about the harmful effects wildfires and climate change can have on wells that some residents rely on for drinking water.

Edwidge Danticat is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories, essays, and memoirs, with a focus on the rich experiences of the Haitian diaspora. Her latest book is the collection of short stories “Everything Inside.”

Researchers from Oregon universities collaborated with advocacy organizations and farmworkers themselves to understand the challenges these essential workers have faced and what policies they want to see changed to improve conditions in the future.

Some are concerned about a labor impasse that could create further issues.

The Elgin High School band is competing for the first time ever in the state band and orchestra championships.

Government officials from Oregon and Washington recently met to discuss replacing the Interstate 5 Bridge across the Columbia River.