Emily Cureton Cook
Oregon Public BroadcastingEmily Cureton is OPB’s Central Oregon Bureau Chief. She's the former producer of the Jefferson Exchange on JPR and has contributed award-winning programming to Georgia Public Broadcasting. She began her career as a journalist reporting for community newspapers, including the Del Norte Triplicate in Crescent City, California, and the Big Bend Sentinel in Marfa, Texas. Emily graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with degrees in history, studio art and Russian. Among other adventures, she’s driven a van from Oregon to Costa Rica and hiked from the California coast to the Pacific Crest in Ashland. Send her feedback and story ideas at ecureton@opb.org.
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Whoever Gov. Kotek appoints to the job will be in the middle of intense water conflicts worsened by drought, climate change and development. -
Federal lawmakers this week considered drinking water problems in rural Oregon as prime examples of a national crisis.
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At a recent hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, senators pointed to Eastern Oregon, where more than 4,000 wells are at risk from decades of nitrate pollution, and to Central Oregon, where dozens of people blame a gravel mine for sudden plumbing disasters and health concerns.
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A beloved tradition returns with new meanings, and for some, a sense of urgency.
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Key people managing Oregon’s natural resources have dealt with death threats, attack dogs and gunfire, according to a recent survey of field staff from nine state agencies.
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The museum opened in 1993, becoming a national model for how tribes control their own treasures, and share their own histories.
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Bradbury, who died Friday at the age of 73, served as the state’s chief election official for a decade, from 1999 to 2009, leading efforts that drastically increased voter turn out and government transparency.
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A developer says his proposed destination resort in Central Oregon will actually benefit the environment. Opponents say it exemplifies injustice in Oregon water law.
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As more wells go dry, a developer in Oregon's fastest growing region maneuvers for water rights.
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An Oregon wildlife official shot and killed a cougar Sunday after the animal attracted the gunfire of armed residents in a neighborhood south of Bend.
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Oregon has protected land at Summer Lake Wildlife Area in Lake County since 1944. Water is another story.
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In Malheur County’s Cow Valley, state regulators have ignored known issues with overpumping groundwater, leaving the region at risk of economic and ecological damage that will be difficult to reverse.
