Kyra Buckley
Oregon Public BroadcastingKyra Buckley is a JPR content partner from Oregon Public Broadcasting. Kyra grew up in Eugene, is a 2015 graduate of the University of Oregon, and started her journalism career at Eugene鈥檚 public radio station, KLCC. Kyra's reporting comes to JPR through the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.
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Coos Bay needs 600 new homes by 2040. A planned subdivision could get the city most of the way thereEconomic development officials along the south Oregon coast say a housing crunch is hindering growth. -
Steiner, a family physician who has spent a dozen years in the Oregon Senate, is leading her opponent, state Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Tillamook, in returns as of 7:00 a.m. Wednesday. -
Housing projects are waiting more than a year for vital equipment to connect new apartment buildings to the grid. The cause is complicated. -
The Port of Coos Bay is planning a $2.3 billion project that would create a massive deep-water terminal where large cargo ships drop off 20 to 40-foot-long shipping containers full of goods from across the Pacific Ocean. -
Republican Brian Boquist and Democrat Elizabeth Steiner are running to replace Tobias Read, a Democrat who can鈥檛 run again due to term limits -
Utilities recommend conserving energy during the hottest hours of the day, in part to help lessen strain on the state鈥檚 power grid. -
The standard hourly minimum wage in Oregon will increase to $14.70, with workers in the Portland Metro area getting $15.95 and rural workers receiving $13.70. -
Leaders in Oregon want the federal government to award the state a National Semiconductor Technology Center. As much as $5 billion in CHIPS Act funding could go towards the new center. -
Some Oregonians seeking unemployment insurance benefits are frustrated over long wait times to resolve application issues. The concerns follow the employment department鈥檚 rollout of a new website. -
A little more than 6,000 people 鈥� or 0.1% of the population 鈥� left Oregon from July 2022 to July 2023, according to census data released Tuesday. Stretching back to 2021, overall census numbers estimate the state鈥檚 population went down by 0.5%, or about 23,000 people. -
Scammers are using stolen identities to create fake claims for Oregon鈥檚 new Paid Leave program. That鈥檚 raising concerns about the safety of personal data.
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Public benefits have long been a target of fraudsters who attempt to illegally gain access to personal data in order to file fraudulent applications. Officials with Paid Leave Oregon said it is experiencing the same type of attempted fraud.
