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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In the next few weeks, Eugene City Council could consider an alternative to the fire fee in hopes of avoiding a budget crisis and a divisive election. -
The Eugene 4J School District has adopted a three-year contract with new superintendent Miriam Mickelson, which will allow her to join the district on July 1. -
Lane County will soon decide whether to increase building fees by about 21% over the next three years in hopes of closing a budget gap in the county's land management division. -
The Eugene City Council is considering whether to move the date of the upcoming fire fee referendum, try some other alternative, or let the election proceed as scheduled. -
On Monday, the City of Eugene and White Bird Clinic announced that mobile crisis response service CAHOOTS would no longer serve Eugene due to contract, and funding issues. -
A federal judge has rejected efforts by the University of Oregon to dismiss parts of a discrimination lawsuit by its female athletes. -
White Bird’s CAHOOTS program, which provides services to people in crisis, will no longer serve the city of Eugene.
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The Eugene Water and Electric Board has approved an additional $3.3 million for fish passages at the Carmen-Smith Hydro Electric project along the McKenzie River about 70 miles east of Eugene. -
Eugene’s Saturday market will return this weekend for its 56th season with hundreds of booths and the crowning of a new Slug Queen. -
The Eugene 4J School District selected a former Northwest Washington administrator to serve as its new superintendent at a board meeting Wednesday.
