Kristian Foden-Vencil
Kristian Foden-Vencil is a veteran journalist/producer working for Oregon Public Broadcasting. He started as a cub reporter for newspapers in London, England in 1988. Then in 1991 he moved to Oregon and started freelancing. His work has appeared in publications as varied as The Oregonian, the BBC, the Salem Statesman Journal, Willamette Week, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, NPR and the Voice of America. Kristian has won awards from the Associated Press, Society of Professional Journalists and the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors. He was embedded with the Oregon National Guard in Iraq in 2004 and now specializes in business, law, health and politics.
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Staff at Tualatin Valley Water District thought they were taking a benign, if unusual, step on Monday, when they drained a massive 150,000 gallon water tank on Monday to prepare it for repainting.
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Oregon’s hot, dry conditions are hampering efforts to put out wildfires.
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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.
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The Forest Service is also warning that air quality is likely to deteriorate as wildfires continue to burn.
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Some towns are better prepared for triple digit heat than others.
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“It was just so hot and he was starting to get sick. So I said, ‘to heck with it. I’m going to take him where he can be well.’ He’s my best bud. He’s my service dog,” June Sanders, a visitor to a Portland cooling center, said Wednesday.
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Many cyclists think the newfound popularity of their sport will persist after the pandemic.
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A conversation in a Portland pub led to a search for the tree at the bottom of the world and a new baseline for climate change.
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A state advisory board has just issued a report saying the active ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms, psilocybin, shows promise in mental health therapy.
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A bust of York that mysteriously appeared in Portland’s Mount Tabor Park this spring has been toppled.