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Amateur archeologist Scott Kemery leads a team on expeditions to uncover the artifacts left behind by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

A yet-to-be-released survey taken by Multnomah County District Attorney’s office employees late last year shows job satisfaction in the office has rebounded to levels similar to — or exceeding — the years prior to the pandemic. The results, set to be released this summer, but shared with OPB days before an election that will determine the next district attorney, largely contradict similar surveys released by the district attorney’s office that showed an unhappy workforce.

Sophomore Neomi sits quietly in an office at her high school in a Colorado mountain town west of Denver. It's a cold December morning and she's wearing gold and black Nikes and a gray hoodie, pulled up.

This image provided by the U.S. Army shows trucks loaded with humanitarian aid from the United Arab Emirates and the United States Agency for International Development cross the Trident Pier before arriving on the beach on the Gaza Strip on Friday. Staff Sgt. Malcolm Cohens-Ashley / U.S. Army via AP

Hope Kitchen is a new food services internship program for people experiencing homelessness. It’s held at the Kelly Shelter in Medford.

When late-night comedy on television has less than half of the audience than it had a decade ago, Jed Rosenzweig founded LateNighter to revive interest in the genre.

Paramedic Papinki Lebelo waits for a police escort before responding to an emergency call-out in the Red Zone neighborhood of Philippi East in Cape Town, South Africa. Due to a rise in attacks on paramedics, large parts of the city are only accessible to ambulance crews when they have a police escort. This severely delays response times. Tommy Trenchard for NPR

We hear about the latest developments with Metro's long-running efforts to turn a former industrial site in North Portland along the Willamette River into a nature park.

FILE - Former NASA astronaut Ed Dwight poses for a portrait to promote the National Geographic documentary film "The Space Race" during the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, at The Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, Calif. America's first Black astronaut candidate has finally made it to space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company. Ninety-year-old Dwight blasted off from West Texas with five other passengers on Sunday, May 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., questions Columbia University president Nemat Shafik during a House committee hearing on antisemitism in higher education last month. Mariam Zuhaib / AP