Erik Neumann
News DirectorErik Neumann is JPR's news director. He earned a master's degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and joined JPR as a reporter in 2019 after working at NPR member station KUER in Salt Lake City. Erik grew up alongside the Puget Sound and is passionate about the power of narrative storytelling to explore the issues that impact people's lives. He has a diverse range of experience in public radio 鈥� reporter, host, producer of live events, and teacher of radio production to young people at Youth Radio in Oakland. Reach Erik at: neumanne1@sou.edu
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The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors recently proclaimed a local emergency related to concerns about heavy metals being present in the Klamath River. California's regional water board says those worries are overblown. -
At the end of the Oregon legislative session this week, lawmakers approved funding of nearly $6 million for a handful of arts and cultural organizations. -
Approximately 830,000 fall-run Chinook salmon fry are believed to have died while passing through the lowest dam on the Klamath River in late February. -
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced more than $72 million for the Klamath Basin on Wednesday. -
JPR News Director Erik Neumann spoke with OPB politics reporter Lauren Dake about what the legislature will focus on during the upcoming short legislative session. -
Construction crews blasted a hole in the Copco No. 1 dam on Tuesday. It鈥檚 the final dam of four that will be removed in the hydroelectric reach of the Klamath River this year. -
'It means the river has a future': Advocates cheer milestone as water flows from a Klamath River damThis week, water started being released from a reservoir on the Klamath River, kicking off the largest dam removal in U.S. history.
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The next big phase of the Klamath River Dam removal started this week. It's the largest dam removal in U.S. history and is expected to last through 2024. -
In the coming weeks, water will be let out from behind the three remaining dams on the Klamath River. A century's worth of sediment that has piled up behind the dams will also flow downriver. -
The Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford is working with law enforcement to investigate allegations that misuse of opioids at the hospital resulted in deadly infections. -
The following are headlines from a few local news sites on a recent Sunday. In Ashland: 鈥淐ity Council to vote on camping ordinance, consider funding to extend emergency shelter operation.鈥� In Medford: 鈥淢edford council worries about draining last federal dollars to help homeless people.鈥� In Grants Pass: 鈥淧arents, superintendent want fence between school and homeless campers.鈥� Besides all being about homelessness, there鈥檚 another similarity in these stories. None talked about the lack of housing in the Rogue Valley. -
The company managing facilities at Crater Lake National Park has created unsafe conditions that threaten the park, visitors and employees who live and work there, according to a stern letter sent by Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden.
