Rebecca Hansen-White
ReporterRebecca Hansen-White joined the KLCC News Department in November 2023. She started her journalism career in print, first as an editorial assistant at her hometown paper, The Dayton Chronicle in Southeast Washington. She spent the 2017 legislative session at the Washington Statehouse as a correspondent for The Columbia Basin Herald newspaper. She moved to The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane in 2018, covering local government and criminal justice issues. She started her public radio career in 2021 as a reporter, and fill-in host for Spokane Public Radio where she covered healthcare, rural communities and environmental issues.
Rebecca studied journalism and political science at Washington State University and enjoys collecting vintage records, and spending time with her husband and cat Iris.
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The race to represent East Lane County on the board of commissioners was still too close to call Tuesday. Two-term incumbent Heather Buch faces conservative challenger Jake Pelroy. -
4th Congressional Democratic incumbent Val Hoyle was leading on election night against Republican challenger Monique DeSpain. -
Lane County’s top elected officials will soon get a raise. The Board of County Commissioners voted to increase their own pay Tuesday, as well as the salaries of the sheriff, assessor, district attorney and justice of the peace. -
According to the Lane County Clerk’s Office, roughly 80.3% of the ballots that have been returned so far had been returned at a drop box, as of Monday. -
Lane County families will soon have access to an online guide to help them find preschools, parenting classes, diapers and other services. The resource will launch on Nov. 4. -
As of Friday, close to 37% of Lane County voters have returned their ballots, according to the Lane County Clerk’s Office. -
The Springfield School District has hired a search firm to find its next superintendent. The school board unanimously voted to sign a contract Monday. -
The Lane Community College Board is again in conflict, now over a disagreement about whether a meeting months ago violated open meeting law. The complaint was heard before the Oregon Government Ethics Commission last week. -
Democratic incumbent Val Hoyle is in a rematch against critics on both the left and right in the race to represent Oregon’s 4th Congressional District. Hoyle again faces Republican Monique DeSpain, a retired Air Force Colonel, and Pacific Green Party candidate Justin Filip. -
Just one contested county commissioner race will be on the Lane County ballot this fall: East Lane County incumbent Heather Buch is facing challenger Jake Pelroy.
