The Evergreen podcast

Teams of dedicated volunteers are on-call from late winter to early spring to help Northern red-legged frogs safely cross Highway 30 to get from Forest Park to the Harborton wetland, where they breed.

From custom-made guitars to individually soldered effects pedals, Portland has a vibrant boutique audio-manufacturing industry closely intertwined with the local music scene.

We tagged along with OPB capitol reporter Dirk VanderHart for a day to see what’s going on behind the scenes of our state government.

Katy Osuna from the Copper & Heat podcast joins us to share the history of cheese in the region and how it became so special.

For our latest “At Work With” episode, we bring you along as we visit a queseria where Mexican cheese is made, hit the streets at dawn with a garbage collector and meet a biologist whose job it is to protect birds at the airport.

This month marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. It’s also the anniversary of many Vietnamese families arriving to start a new life in the Pacific Northwest.

Facing a dire agricultural labor shortage during World War II, the United States made an agreement with Mexico: a government-sponsored program to bring Mexican workers to the U.S. on temporary labor contracts to help farms, as well as railroad companies, across the country. Over 15,000 of these workers came to Oregon, under what became known as the Bracero Program.

Today, we’re bringing you up to date on the Klamath River. What’s on folks’ minds now that all the dams are out a year later — and what still needs to be done to piece this basin together again?

Meet three Pacific Northwest artists whose creativity is inseparable from food.

We take a tour of OPB’s newsroom and hear from reporters covering politics, climate, health, business and more about what federal policy changes mean for people in the Northwest.