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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Oregon鈥檚 biggest trading partners include Mexico and Canada, but tariff threats from President Donald Trump could raise costs, strain business relationships. -
Threats of tariffs on major trading partners point to a chaotic global market for the foreseeable future. -
From international students to asylum seekers, the new administration鈥檚 plans could affect tens of thousands of people in the state. -
Gov. Tina Kotek had urged the Biden Administration to choose Oregon for one of the research and development centers. -
Rates that new employers will pay for unemployment insurance in the coming year will be 2.4% on up to $54,300 in wages per employee. -
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.
