Tiffany Eckert
Tiffany joined the KLCC News team in 2007. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has worked in a variety of media including television and daily print news. For KLCC, Tiffany reports on health care, social justice and local/regional news. She has won awards from Oregon Associated Press, PRNDI, and Education Writers Association.
When not tracking down a story, Tiffany spends time growing food and flowers, traveling, singing, and having fun with her family and friends.
Her reporting comes to JPR through the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.
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Oregon National Guardsmen and women are in Eugene to assist Lane County Public Health with mass COVID-19 vaccination clinics. 7,400 doses of vaccine are... -
A Eugene couple recently unearthed a treasure deep in their crawl space. It wasn鈥檛 jewels or gold bars鈥攂ut a trove of iconic magazines they鈥檇 nearly... -
What will become of us when we die? For some, the answer may be immediate burial. A growing number of people want to be cremated. And- there is another... -
Four Oregon healthcare organizations have committed $2.68 million to help fund an affordable housing complex in Eugene. The 51-unit apartment building...
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Next month, construction will begin on Lane County鈥檚 newest housing project to address chronic homelessness. The 51-unit complex, called The Commons on... -
Oregon State University has had a banner year in research grant funding鈥攏early 440 million dollars in 2019. (Only in 2017 did the institution bring in... -
At the end of this month, PeaceHealth will close its free-standing Nurse Midwifery Birth Center in Springfield. Despite public outcry, hospital... -
The Lane County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to withdraw membership from a timber lobbying group. A new majority on the board has reversed a... -
PeaceHealth Oregon announced last week it will close the Nurse Midwifery Birth Center in Springfield at the end of August. Some midwives say this will... -
The Oregon Health Authority announced Friday a third-party review is underway to consider expanding Medicaid coverage for certain chronic pain conditions. -
A Springfield boy will soon get his first prosthetics thanks to a clever collaboration between University of Oregon students and advocates for people... -
The White House announced a short-term deal to re-open the government by Friday evening. In Eugene, Oregon鈥檚 U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio met with...
