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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced she is ordering all public schools in the state to offer in-person classes in the coming weeks.

For the second year in a row, there will likely not be enough water in the Klamath basin to sustain fish, farmers and birds. Klamath County commissioners recently declared a drought in the basin and asked the state to do the same. Mark Johnson, deputy director of the Klamath Water Users Association, tells us about the impact of water conditions on farmers in the region.

Najiah Knight aims to be the number one bull rider in the world. The 14 year old from Arlington, Oregon is already a record setter. She was the first girl in the Mini Bull Riders circuit and the first girl to ride a bull in Madison Square Garden. Knight is featured in a new special on OPB’s Oregon Field Guide

Many Oregonians are in dire need following the Almeda Fire, the catastrophic blaze that burned down much of Phoenix and Talent in Southern Oregon. Community members throughout the state have formed a network of volunteers to meet the need. We talk with organizer Jesse Azzopardi of the Southern Oregon Relief Team about delivering supplies amid devastating wildfires.

One of the biggest and most well known crusades to preserve old growth forests in Oregon was the battle to preserve Opal Creek Wilderness. One of the people who wanted to preserve that wilderness was George Atiyeh. Atiyeh died three weeks ago in the Beachie Creek fire. We’ll listen back to a conversation that we recorded in 2016 with George Atiyeh in the home he shared with his wife Hillary outside of Opal Creek Wilderness.

For people with disabilities, wildfire evacuations required additional time and notice that wasn’t always possible with the rapidly spreading fires.

Researchers around the world are busy trying to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. How safe is the vaccine research? How many vaccines will we eventually get, and how effective will they be? How will the vaccines be distributed? Three leading scientists from the Pacific Northwest will help us understand the vaccine research and development process.

Last week, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation distributed nearly a thousand vaccine does to reservation residents and tribal employees. The tribe has already vaccinated tribal members over age 55, healthcare workers and first responders.

The Portland Jazz Festival has long been a mainstay in the city’s jazz scene and this year it’s more accessible than ever before. All of the acts are live streamed, and you can still catch many of the acts before the festival wraps up on Saturday, Feb. 27.

Scientists with Oregon State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have sequenced the genome for one of the most popular hop varieties in the United States.