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1 month ago | opb.org | Zac Ziegler

City of Eugene stormwater infrastructure in recently constructed in downtown Eugene in fall, 2024. An increase in the city's stormwater fee will help Eugene close about half of its budget shortfall.

1 month ago | opb.org | Rachael McDonald

A view of Quartz Creek, where work is underway to clear the banks so that the water can spread out and meander. A major earth-moving project is underway along the McKenzie Highway east of Eugene-Springfield. The work is meant to restore the McKenzie River to its more meandering character to improve wildlife habitat and water quality. Like many rivers, the McKenzie and its tributaries have been engineered by humans to follow a desired path.

1 month ago | opb.org | Kyra Buckley

FILE - Portland, Ore., as seen from Pittock Mansion on June 8, 2021. Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPBPortland’s population decline appears to be reversing. Estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau and Portland State University show the city’s population increased last year. It comes after shedding more than 10,000 people in the years immediately following the COVID-19 pandemic.

1 month ago | opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Jule Gilfillan |Brooke Herbert

Red-legged frogs cross a busy Portland highway with help from the “Frog Taxi.”There’s a population of Northern red-legged frogs that make their home in Portland’s Forest Park. In late winter and early spring, they come down to the nearby Harborton wetland to breed. There’s only one problem: the frogs have to cross Highway 30 to get from Forest Park to the wetland and back.

1 month ago | opb.org | Michel Martin |Destinee Adams

A woman looks at a mural on the wall of Cup Foods during a vigil for George Floyd on May 25, 2022 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Stephen Maturen/Getty ImagesThe death of George Floyd lit a fire in the U.S. in the summer of 2020 — and the years that followed. Floyd died after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for more than 9 minutes. Images caught on cellphone video circulated around the world — moving millions to protest, demonstrate and march in the months following Floyd’s death.