Two years ago, OPB & ProPublica investigated a logging project in coastal Southern Oregon that included large, ancient trees. A federal judge just ruled that the Bureau of Land Management's project broke environmental laws. www.opb.org/article/2026...

President Trump is allowing the military to flout water pollution laws so it can continue flying supersonic fighter jets in the Owyhee desert in Oregon, Idaho and Nevada. www.opb.org/article/2026...

The federal government accidentally killed two gray wolves during a coyote cull in Oregon, according to a state report. One was a collared wolf from California. More from my colleague Alejandro Figueroa: opb.org/article/2026...

A U.S. District Court judge found that President Trump's executive ordering the defunding of NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment. n.pr/3PUBm6t

Inbox: U.S. Forest Service moving its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City, Utah. Trump admin calls the move "common sense."

Don’t make fun of Portlanders for driving Subarus. They need them for the potholes and unimproved roads. 😔

This is heartbreaking. Rogue Rock Gym is a community space for so many people in the Medford-Ashland area. It’s the only rock gym here — the nearest other gym is 3 hours away. rv-times.com/2026/02/17/r...

Like 10yrs ago I was telling my husband how much food to feed our cat, Sam: "He gets two cans — Because he's Two Can Sam 😀😀😀" & he didn't laugh & I'm bitter about it to this day.

A small part of Oregon's recycling system is on hold after a judge issued a preliminary injunction. The new system charges corporations for their product packaging. Today, more businesses called on lawmakers for a broader halt. www.opb.org/article/2026...

The 17-acre Leach Botanical Garden in far southeast Portland says it will close if it doesn't get more funding soon. The public park is owned by the city, but managed by a nonprofit. The city hasn't provided funding since last year. www.opb.org/article/2026...

False spring or never winter?

Weekend protests in Portland against federal immigration actions were again met with thick clouds of tear gas outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. Here's what to know about how the city is reacting to tear gas, ICE’s use of force and other factors tied to the facility.

Officials in The Dalles issued a public statement criticizing an OPB investigation into data centers, Google and water. Here are the facts underpinning that story, and why OPB stands by this reporting.

The Dalles city officials issued a public statement criticizing my investigation into data centers, Google and water. My editors and I have poured over every sentence. Here are the facts underpinning that story, and why we stand by it. www.opb.org/article/2026...

DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO ANYTHING BUT A GROUNDED, WALL SOCKET

So the Trump Administration is refusing to promise not to look at materials seized from a WaPo reporter even though that seizure is being challenged in court and may have been illegal www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Can you imagine just waking up and looking like this? With no effort whatsoever? He doesn’t even shower.

“The company plans to build new data centers using a closed-loop water system that recycles the water… Microsoft also pledged not to accept tax incentives or subsidies from local communities, and made other commitments around workforce training.”

The Dalles wants to pull more water out of the Mt Hood forest. It says it’s for a growing population, but the city hasn’t grown much in recent years. What has: Google’s footprint. The tech giant uses a third of the city’s water. www.opb.org/article/2026...

Not something anyone I've talked to was expecting. Former state Sen. Tim Knopp, who led the longest legislative walkout in Oregon history, now works for Gov. Tina Kotek. #orleg #orpol www.opb.org/article/2026...

As the climate data for 2025 continues to be released, it's time to update various data visualisations. First - the global climate stripes for 1850-2025. A third darkest red stripe is added. The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record. A sequence that is unlikely to be broken soon.

@aprilehrlich.bsky.social shares for our “what our audience doesn’t know” series. "Many of these managers make 6 figures, a salary that many of us may never reach, and OPB is paying for a negotiator. The more they prolong this process, the more money it costs." -April Ehrlich, OPB Reporter/Producer

Oregon DEQ appears to have known that a cyber attack leaked Oregonians’ personal information since June. The agency didn’t notify most people affected by it until six months later. It also didn’t disclose the leak to the public, not until I started asking about it. www.opb.org/article/2026...

"During the evening, as some children ran down 146th Ave playing with sticks, a woman stepped out of her apartment and told them not to speak to each other in Spanish, and not to open the door if anyone came to their apartment."

An Oregon lawmaker is warning of ICE agents posing as utility workers. NW Natural and Portland General Electric have published guidance in several languages on how to tell if a person is actually one of their employees.

BREAKING NEWS: We are opening a formal investigation into the shooting involving federal agents in Portland today. Our office will take every step necessary to ensure the rights and security of Oregonians are protected. #orpol #breakingnews

Federal agents have shot two people in Portland, just a day after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minnesota. Follow @alexzee.bsky.social for updates. www.opb.org/article/2026...

The plan: Spam journalists' inboxes

@rcfp.org is supporting journalist @aprilehrlich.bsky.social’s 1A lawsuit against the city of Medford, Oregon, which stems from her unlawful arrest while reporting on police activity at a public park.

Capitol Chronicle is a great resource that helps supplement politics coverage for many newsrooms across our region. It's worth supporting!

Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...

NEW: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.

Hear me out: Pez dispenser for tums.

A real rollercoaster of a story here:

Crosscut is dead. Long live Crosscut. Today’s the official last day for me and my Cascade PBS newsroom colleagues. We did good work over the decades and it is supremely sad to see it shut down.

The Forest Service has spent years on amending the Northwest Forest Plan, logging policies that came out of the timber wars. The agency under the Trump admin wants to restart that work and draft a new proposal. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Immigration officers have hit the city of Hillsboro hard in the past two weeks. To help students and parents feel safer, staff at an elementary school and nearby middle school, along with representatives from the local teachers’ union, have responded by standing watch in the neighborhood.

This week, union workers at Bend’s newspaper, The Bulletin, spoke out against its owners, Carpenter Media Group. Carpenter became the largest media owner in Oregon and the 4th largest in the nation when it purchased a raft of newspapers in the Northwest in 2024.

If you’re needing some not sad content, here are the varied reactions of all my children to “skelly pets.” Starting with loyal, trusting Huckleberry.

A federal bill intended to prevent major wildfires could effectively increase logging and cattle grazing in national forests and other federal lands in the name of wildfire prevention. The Fix Our Forests Act now heads to the Senate floor for a final vote. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Excellent reporting from @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social on post-disaster contractor scams grist.org/extreme-weat... "More than a third of people impacted by a disaster report experiencing fraud...contractor fraud has become a lucrative business."

The Forest Service says staff that organize timber sales are essential, so logging national forests continues through the shutdown, even as hundreds of thousands of other workers are furloughed. www.opb.org/article/2025...

This week on @opb.org's The Evergreen: The 2020 Labor Day Fires burned 4,000+ homes & a million+ acres in Oregon. What happened next? What do you... do? How do you recover from a catastrophe like a wildfire, in a home changed forever? We explore, w @aprilehrlich.bsky.social & Cassandra Profita:

As is, the "big beautiful bill" would increase logging on federal lands. But timber counties that have historically received a chunk of timber sales won't see any of that new money. www.opb.org/article/2025...

FEMA did not answer ProPublica’s questions about its missed application deadline or the impact of funding cuts and delays, instead responding with a statement that Secretary Noem is focused on bringing accountability to FEMA’s spending

Oregon lawmakers will not advance a bill that would have required Facebook’s parent company and Google to pay money to local newsrooms for profiting off news content on their platforms.

The small community of Rowena outside The Dalles is in the early stages of recovery after a wildfire destroyed 56 homes last week. Half the residents are over 60, and more than half are below the poverty level. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Admittedly, I know very little about sports, but could we not come up with something better than Portland Fire? It's a bit too on the nose, considering, you know, the fires all over the state. portlandtribune.com/2025/06/19/w...

"Trump signed an executive order in April to 'restore American seafood competitiveness' but in revoking the Columbia River agreement has canceled millions of dollars to support the programs that seed the ocean with fish to catch." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This is extraordinary. We must defend #publicradio. Long live KEXP. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...