The Evergreen podcast

On today’s episode, OPB’s Crystal Ligori and Sukhjot Sal warm our hearts by sharing how the romance genre became so popular and why they love it so much.

For our “At Work With” series, we talk to Pacific Northwesterners from different professions and ask them your questions about what it’s like to do what they do.

OPB reporter Alex Zielinski recently teamed up with Nika Bartoo-Smith, a reporter for Underscore Native News and ICT, to dig into the city of Portland’s relationship with tribal governments and Native communities. They join us to talk about what they’ve found.

In the 1930s, aviation was taking off in the Northwest, and more and more women were learning how to fly. On this week’s show, we learn about two of these pilots: Hazel Ying Lee and Leah Hing.

In this week's episode of The Evergreen, we hear the stories of the Yat Sing Music Club and Ikoi no Kai: two groups that provide community for seniors.

Portland-based freelance writer Jeff Alworth brings us the story of how Oregon hops changed IPAs, almost by accident.

Former students at St. Helens High School say that in the 1980s, a teacher there groomed and sexually assaulted them.

In this week’s episode, we talk about the Oregon Country Fair and how grew out of a 1960s vision of a better world: a paradise for hippies. But the history of the fair is complex. It takes place on a native ancestral gathering site.

A few years ago, prosecutors in Washington County announced they'd finally solved the murder of Deborah Atrops, more than three decades after the case went cold — thanks, in part, to DNA. But DNA evidence, long considered the “gold standard” of evidence, isn't always as simple as it seems on television.

In today's "The Evergreen" episode, we introduce you to the unsung heroes we've met along the way: the parents and guardians of OPB's Class of 2025 project.