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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Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, is more than a food program. A new study finds while serving families with health and nutrition services, WIC... -
鈥淢y state is on fire.鈥� Those are the words of Oregon鈥檚 Senate President Peter Courtney, as he joined other congressional representatives to ask for... -
Oregon now has 鈥淏鈥� on the influential Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws for health care. That鈥檚 up from a flat failing grade for years鈥� past. -
More people are choosing alternative ways to spend the hereafter 鈥� that includes natural burial 鈥� which means no embalming or encasement in non... -
Oregon鈥檚 Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum was in Eugene Thursday to learn about life-saving services available through HIV Alliance. She toured the... -
Wood smoke from fireplaces and stoves is contributing to elevated levels of air pollution in Oakridge and Eugene/Springfield. The Lane Regional Air... -
On December 19, members of the Electoral College will cast the votes that actually decide who will be President of the United States. While Hillary... -
Amy Frohnmayer Winn, the third daughter of David and Lynn Frohnmayer, died Sunday of complications from a rare disorder. She was 29. -
Over the last five years, the ratio of students to school nurses has nearly doubled in Oregon. According to a new report released Wednesday, the... -
Three Register-Guard employees have been placed on paid administrative leave. This the day after a Lane County Circuit Court Judge dismissed a former... -
The civil lawsuit brought by former Register-Guard newspaper reporter Serena Markstrom was dismissed in court Wednesday. The dismissal was based on a... -
More people are choosing alternative ways to spend the hereafter that include natural burial. A Eugene, Oregon, woman is on a mission to resurrect an old practice for dealing with the dead.
