Kristian Foden-Vencil
Oregon Public Broadcasting Reporter-
After getting lost on his way back from a baseball series in the Dominican Republic, the mascot for the Portland Pickles has been taken by porch pirates. -
Four years after an Amtrak train jumped the tracks along the Point Defiance Bypass in Washington state, service is resuming. -
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced on Friday that she would be sending up to 1,500 Oregon National Guard troops to help hospitals deal with the surge in delta variant COVID-19 cases. -
The Forest Service is also warning that air quality is likely to deteriorate as wildfires continue to burn. -
A bust of York that mysteriously appeared in Portland’s Mount Tabor Park this spring has been toppled. -
Anesthesia revolutionized surgery by vanquishing patients' pain. But many of the chemicals are greenhouse gases. One Oregon doctor who has done the math says some are much less damaging to the planet. -
Clinics in the Pacific Northwest are ordering 10 times the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella as they normally do because some who have avoided vaccines are changing their minds. -
Hundreds of people turned up at the Washington State Legislature Friday for a public hearing on measles. -
In a recent study of patients treated by emergency medical responders in Oregon, black patients were 40 percent less likely to get pain medicine than their white peers. Why? -
Two local health organizations — PeaceHealth and Zoom+Care — announced a merger Tuesday. Their customers likely won’t notice any difference.
