She's Not Going to Let GoSynde Bell never had much. She grew up poor in Iowa, ran away at 16 to Las Vegas, and clawed her way to success as a dancer the hard way. But dancing was a young person's game,...

No One Knows Where They Come From The Wolf Harbor Boarding School was mostly just a fantasy, until the students started showing up on their doorstep. First there was Pi, a Cambodian teenager. He joined...

Find them. Find the missing women. Paul Kitka, a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol, is half-Tlingit, half white. And when an Inuit elder from Bethel gets the brush-off from the Anchorage police, it's...

SOMETIMES THE PAST WON'T STAY BURIEDJanet Andrews is a respected journalist and editor. But once, she was someone else. Now, they're coming for her, and this time? They aren't going to let her go. Mac...

A CALL TO ARMSSeattle Police Lieutenant Nick Rodriguez is worried about a growing number of domestic violence calls where the accused is a gun hoarder. Worried enough that he gives Mac Davis a call one...

She fled her abuser, but a killer followed her Paul Kitka likes fast cars, women and his job as a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol. He likes living in Talkeetna, a small town full of quirky people...

A Woman's Place?Ruthie Brewster was on a mission to make sure every abused woman in Plains City, Texas, has a safe place to go.Until someone killed her.Plains City Gazette news editor Katy Williams admired...

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN ALL YOUR CHOICES SUCK?As far as the student-run Eyewitness News is concerned, J.J. is a journalist. And if he wants to cover the Black Lives Matter protests, EWN needs him there. He'll...

NEWSROOM RULES: STAY SAFE. GET THE STORY. When the college basketball team traveled to Boise for a Thanksgiving tournament, the sports editor thought she did everything right: social distancing, testing...

HE HAS A SON.Ryan Matthews is a player. He's also the editor-in-chief of student-run Eyewitness News in Portland. But for all the women — and a few men — who have been in and out of his bed (and office,...

What would you do to keep a secret? Bob Anderson ­­— local banker, city council member, and now murder victim — had the goods on a bunch of people in Plains City, Texas. Everybody wants those files; no...

Yes, you can go home again. But will you leave it alive? Paul Kitka hasn't returned to Sitka, Alaska, in 18 years -- not since a cop shot and killed his father. Now he's a cop himself, a lieutenant in...

Football and the Flag It's Texas in the 1980s. Football is king. A gifted Black high school quarterback says he won't play varsity football because they carry the Confederate flag. The town's reaction...

When You Come for the Wrong Man Howard Parker wants to be Secretary of Homeland Security. And he isn't going to let a bunch of Marines who were in the wrong place at the wrong time stand in his way —...

Talkeetna, the seriesPaul Kitka likes women, fast cars, and his job as a lieutenant in Alaska State Patrol. Unfortunately, life isn't quite that simple. Candace Marshall isn't sure what she likes. Years...

Just Do the JobI am woman, hear me roar — Helen Reddy Will Bristol never intended to be editor-in-chief of Eyewitness News in downtown Portland. He had planned to coast through his senior year as an investigative...

When You Can't Trust Your Own MemoriesRyan Matthews has a memory problem. Some memories just don't exist — nothing before age 10 really.Some memories conflict.If you asked him a year ago about his home...

A Conservative VoiceLuke Kent had come to the student-run Eyewitness News in downtown Portland with a chip on his shoulder. He freely admitted it: he thought EWN was a bunch of ignorant liberals who were...

He Doesn't Feel Like a HeroWhite supremacy groups have targeted the student-run Eyewitness News for their coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests. Protests become riots; death threats become real attempts....

A Newsroom Run by StudentsWrite what must not be forgotten — Isabel AllendePortland, Oregon. Protests, police brutality, white supremacists — and of course the pandemic.The series Newsroom PDX tells the...

A Promise to Keep Abby Stafford promised that all girls would have access to the life-saving serum that would see them through first transition. The first test subjects proved it worked. They had the...

Someone is Hunting ThemNine-year-old Jazzy needs the Video Man, her own private superhero, because Ms.Carroll has gone missing. Cage Washington doesn't think he's a superhero at all, but he's got friends,...

When They Came for the JournalistsIt has been a rough year for the student-run Eyewitness News. Protests, police brutality, the pandemic, and then white supremacists built a scaffold and hung a noose...

A Fitness Spa Like You've Never Experienced BeforeProfessor Abby Stafford was burned out. She was overweight, middle-aged, and tired. She'd even thought about suicide, but there were her dogs. Who would...

Even Heroes Make Mistakes Lanky Purdue is an Alaskan icon. He's been there forever — the dashing Air Force pilot, the man who flew medicines into villages in dark winters, the man who has rescued more...

Promises to Keep Cujo Brown owed no one anything. He had been a lone wolf for 40 plus years, and he liked it that way. No strings attached. Not to a pack. Not to a woman. Not even to his employer — most...

Is Blood Really Thicker than Water?Life is good. Mac Davis, a former Marine, is now a cop reporter for the Seattle Examiner. He's had stories nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has a reputation as a...

When You're the HeroMiguel Garcia saved the day in January. His quick thinking stopped the Eyewitness News building from going up in flames with all of his friends and co-workers trapped inside.And he...

Opening Pandora's Box Ryan Matthews had a standard answer to questions about his past. He'd been adopted by an older couple when he was 10. They loved him, and he loved them, and they probably didn't...

Just Do the JobWill Bristol never intended to be the editor-in-chief of Eyewitness News in downtown Portland. He had planned to coast through his senior year as an investigative reporter, build his portfolio...