The image--and the sound--is still fresh to many minds in Redding. The Carr Fire's entrance into town in late July 2018 was frightening, loud, and destructive; the fire had created a tornado. Science verified what people saw that night, but there are still some gaps in the knowledge.

Justin thought he was having a heart attack, so he went to the hospital. The diagnosis came back: not heart attack, but anxiety attack. Justin's experience is a reminder that mental health issues can interfere with a person's life just as much as physical health issues. This will surprise no one at Southern Oregon Compass House , a clubhouse shared by people with persistent mental illness in Medford.

It's the big Broadway musicals that get much of the attention in the theatre world, and for good reason: they bring in the bucks. "Hamilton" makes something like $3 Million in a week. But there are many musical theatre offerings that do not make headlines or money. They just make a lot of people happy and engaged and active in their communities. This is the scene Stacy Wolf, from Princeton University, covers in her book Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America

Student loan debt is not only a factor in society today, it has a hand in reshaping society. High debt loads are cited as reasons why millennials in particular are staying with their parents longer, buying homes later. One in four Americans owes money spent on college, one in three millennials. The nonprofit think tank Free the Facts is making presentations on student loans to college students across the country.

Food is such a big part of the holiday season, it would have been difficult to choose a recipe or two for this month's edition of Savor, our food segment. So we threw in the towel... the bar towel. December features a slight deviation from food to drink, as we feature some seasonal cocktails. Food stylist and Savor partner Will Smith returns with Blake Henry, recently promoted from bar manager to general manager at Ashland's Brickroom .

Some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it once-moving, some prefer plants. Yes, the topic is food. This is one writer Marissa Landrigan has thought about a lot... she moved from food-loving household to full-blown vegan to something in the middle. It's a journey she describes in The Vegetarian's Guide to Eating Meat: A Young Woman’s Search for Ethical Food .

Children who grow up with trauma often grow up with some difficulties coping with life as adults. Statistics on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in California show that Shasta County children are exposed to most traumas at rates much higher than the state average. The Children's Legacy Center takes a particular focus on the sexual abuse of children, just like the Children's Advocacy Centers that provided the model. CLC plans to move into its new home in Redding sometime in 2020, but is

The generally-held theory about the British explorer Sir Francis Drake is that he put his leaky ship ashore for repairs in what is now Marin County, California in 1579. A high school and several other landmarks are named after him. Melissa Darby at Portland State University says Marin's claim to Drake may be off the mark--by hundreds of miles. Darby, our guest in this month's edition of Underground History, used her knowledge of Oregon indigenous people and the region to postulate that Drake may

You have to give credit to Ctesibius of Alexandria. He apparently was the first person to envision a musical instrument that used wind to create a number of sounds at the same time. We call it the organ today, and Aaron Tan plays it. It can be hard to find the person playing the sounds coming out of all those pipes, but people come for the sound, not the image. Aaron Tan is scheduled to play an organ recital in Ashland on January 19th.

Federal forest land that is not wilderness may still be protected under the "roadless rule" put on the books in 2001. Now the federal government, at the request of the State of Alaska, is considering removing roadless rule protection for the Tongass National Forest, revered as a place of biological diversity. A comment period on the proposal closes today , but we'll guess Jim Furnish already submitted his comments. Furnish is a former Forest Service hand, having run Oregon's Siuslaw National