NPR Staff
Stories
-
Oregon Transportation Officials Seek Federal Approval For Tolling Plan
The Oregon Transportation Commission on Friday unanimously agreed to ask the federal government for permission to impose tolls on sections of interstates 5 and 205 in the Portland area.
-
What You Need To Know About Flash Bangs
Here’s what you need to know about flash bangs, how they are used and how they are regulated.
-
Behind The Politics: Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
"Think Out Loud" sat down with Oregon. Gov. Kate Brown in the living room at Mahonia Hall, the official governor's residence in Salem, for a conversation about her life, her family and her motivations.
-
You 2.0: Originals
What does it mean to be an original? As part of our summer series, You 2.0, we talk with psychology professor Adam Grant about innovators and the challenges they face. Adam gives his take on what makes an original, how parents can nurture originality in their children, and the potential downsides of non-conformity.
-
Study Sheds Light On Rural-Urban Cancer Divide
A new study finds the difference between rural and urban cancer survival rates disappears when patients are enrolled in clinical trials.
-
'The Four Top': Dana Frank | Jordan Michelman | Andrea Slonecker
So-called "natural wine bars" are all the rage right now. Why? And what are the new, surprising wine-food pairing rules? Finally, who knew that eggs are sometime used to make wine?
-
Friendship Line | Firearm Suicides | Reuniting Families In Texas | Anti-Trump Sign
We hear about a friendship line helping local seniors and a Bend Bulletin report on firearm suicides. An Oregon charity helps to reunite immigrant families. And the impacts of a political sign.
-
Watch This Native Pollinator Build Her Bee-Jeweled Nest
While honeybees and their buzzing hives and hyper-fertile queens get all the press for pollinating our food supply, the hard-working blue orchard bee is one of 4,000 bee species native to North America that does its solitary work in relative obscurity. That is, until now.
-
This Little Piggy Went To Market: Louie's Clackamas County Fair Journey
The North Clackamas Land Lab, a center for agriculture science, offers invaluable experiential learning opportunities for area students like Erika Bergstrom.
-
Bureau Of Land Management Considers Move West
Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke wants to move the Bureau of Land Management out of Washington, D.C., to the West. Now cities in Western states full of public lands are jockeying to be the new BLM hub.