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 and started covered local government and criminal justice issues for The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane in 2018. 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 database will allow the public to see how the state manages nearly $100 billion of public employee retirement funds. The public will be able to see if Oregon voted to raise CEO compensation, or in favor of efforts to de-carbonize. -
Researchers hope to train students to research wildfires, and help communities plan to be more resilient.
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The new facility will transform food, and other organic waste into natural gas and divert more recyclables from the landfill.
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Graduate student workers say low pay is making University of Oregon research less competitive and its programs less diverse. The warning comes as the campus prepares for a potential grad workers strike.
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Roseburg leaders are preparing to overhaul parking in the city’s downtown core.
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Officials say the facility would transform food waste and other organic material into natural gas. It will also pull recyclable items out of the garbage stream.
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Federal law requires colleges and universities to provide equal opportunities and resources to student athletes. Members of the beach volleyball and rowing teams have sued, accusing the university of discrimination.
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Row River Valley residents have petitioned to create their own rural fire district. They say depending on fire districts in other communities leaves them vulnerable to wildfire.
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The Florence Senior Meals Program is reopening Dec. 4. The Springfield meal site will re-open in January and Coburg will re-open in February. The sites closed during the pandemic.
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The museum curator said there are thousands of objects that haven’t been on display for years that need care, such as 200-year-old quilts, clothing and farm equipment.
