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Marlena Williams writes on the heart of ‘The Exorcist’ being about motherhood and loss

As climate change makes weather patterns more erratic and access to water becomes more politicized, some Oregon farmers are pivoting to a centuries old practice of growing crops without irrigation.

Oregon water managers met in Burns to discuss reforming state groundwater policy.

NPR's former sports correspondent Tom Goldman reflects on Damian Lillard's legacy

Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer discusses government shutdown

The city of John Day is the largest in Grant County. But it has fewer than 10 employees serving more than 16-hundred people who live there.

Oregon farmers are big on beans

Christopher Knipe agreed to plead guilty for the 2019 killing of Sean Kealiher.

Audio for HAA Oregon Beans online article

Democratic representative Paul Holvey fights recall

Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell is resigning from his post as the city’s top law enforcement officer, but he plans to continue working for the police bureau.

Pacific County sheriff pushes limits of official powers while in training

More than a decade ago, Oregon leaders established a goal that starting with the Class of 2025, 100% of students would complete high school successfully. Students in that class just started 11th grade.

The court will have to balance the legal protections of a person charged with a crime against the ethical obligations of a public defender.

Voters approved tighter gun restrictions in 2022, but multiple court fights have delayed implementation

The state library’s Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse tracks challenges to books and other materials and services in libraries and schools across the state. Its new annual report found that, from 2022 to 2023, more individual book and material titles were challenged in Oregon than at any point since the state library began tracking this data in the ‘80s.

Electronic devices are being developed to restore vision.

As the Class of 2025 students start their junior year of high school, a look back on the ambitious long-term project.

A naturally occurring toxin could be the blame.

We wrap up the week's Northwest news with OPB's Emily Cureton Cook. We also hear from Oregon Capital Chronicle reporter Ben Botkin about his reporting on new scrutiny of Oregon’s system for getting mental health services to people on Medicaid, following a whistleblower complaint.

Oregon’s largest homeless shelter has won a reprieve and will remain open — at least until the end of the year. The Bybee Lakes Hope Center, which is housed at the old Wapato Jail site in North Portland, received $1.5 million from Multnomah County on Thursday. The money comes with one condition: that Bybee Lakes open its books for a third-party financial review.

Three years after the 2020 fires devastated communities in Southern Oregon, survivors are still recovering from the fires’ impact on their homes, their stability and their mental health. A local long-term recovery group is helping support residents who’ve experienced trauma.

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Organ donation in the US is broken - but there's a possibility that breaking the monopoly that runs it might change things.

What happened to Bend's famous osprey nest