For the second year in a row, Milwaukie, Oregon will be hosting a New Year's Eve celebration by dropping a seven foot Bing cherry to ring in the new year. The event is an opportunity for both celebration and education, to honor the Chinese horticulturalist that became the cherry's namesake.

At Work With a Zamboni driver, Tanya March. Actually, it's not technically a Zamboni.

Prakruti Bhatt and Lillian Karabaic answer listener questions about Stop Requested.

OPB's longtime Christmas music curator JT Griffith is back for his fifth year of holiday cheer! He spoke with OPB’s “All Things Considered” host Crystal Ligori about finding holiday vinyl from Japan, scoring an art installation with Christmas tunes, and being perpetually in his ‘Christmas era’.

Portland Pantomime brings a British tradition to the northwest

For kids who feel left out, Bend’s ‘Sandra Claus' is a hit

The St Helens school district is not an outlier when it comes to sexual abuse

Mayor-elect Keith Wilson has pledged to end unsheltered homelessness in Portland by 2026. Past mayors have failed to deliver on similar promises.

In the final episode of Stop Requested, OPB's Lillian Karabaic and Prakruti Bhatt spend a 12-hour travel day going from Enterprise to John Day. And are driven by a buffalo riding champion.

Oregon’s nonprofits fill in a lot of gaps in service that neither government nor businesses can handle. Now they're struggling.