Jun 30 Economy Kentucky AG Cameron On West Virginia Coal Plant: Close It Environmental and consumer groups have pushed for the early closure of a 50-year-old coal-fired power plant in West Virginia that serves electricity customers in both West Virginia and Kentucky. They have an unlikely ally: Kentucky’s Republican attorney general, Daniel Cameron. In a filing last week with the Kentucky Public Service Commission, Cameron recommended the commission […] By Curtis Tate Jun 30 Economy Kentucky AG Cameron On West Virginia Coal Plant: Close It Curtis Tate
Jun 10 Economy These Coal Plants Need Upgrades. Three States Will Decide Their Fate. They’ve towered over the region’s communities for decades. They generated the electricity for homes around the Ohio Valley. They burned coal, a fossil fuel Appalachia has in abundance. But three West Virginia coal-fired power plants owned by Ohio-based American Electric Power may be on borrowed time. The Mitchell Plant in Moundsville, the Mountaineer Plant in […] By Curtis Tate Jun 10 Economy These Coal Plants Need Upgrades. Three States Will Decide Their Fate. Curtis Tate
May 17 Coronavirus Kentucky COVID-19 Cases Continue To Drop Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says COVID-19 cases have declined for three weeks in a row. In his Monday briefing on coronavirus, Beshear said the state is on track to do away with its mask mandate by June 11, but there will be exceptions. Masks will still be required in health care settings and some businesses […] By Corinne Boyer, Ohio Valley ReSource May 17 Coronavirus Kentucky COVID-19 Cases Continue To Drop Corinne Boyer, Ohio Valley ReSource
May 10 Coronavirus Vaccinate U? Contrary To Health Advice, Most Area Schools Won’t Mandate COVID Vaccine Student health advocates say the COVID vaccine should be mandatory. But a ReSource review finds only three Ohio Valley schools will do so. By Corinne Boyer, Ohio Valley ReSource , Alana Watson and Suhail Bhat May 10 Coronavirus Vaccinate U? Contrary To Health Advice, Most Area Schools Won’t Mandate COVID Vaccine Corinne Boyer, Ohio Valley ReSource, Alana Watson and Suhail Bhat
May 3 Environment Power Switch: Solar Is Heating Up In The Ohio Valley As area policy makers take varied approaches to solar, advocates argue that a decentralized grid could make electricity more democratic. By Katie Myers and Curtis Tate May 3 Environment Power Switch: Solar Is Heating Up In The Ohio Valley Katie Myers and Curtis Tate
Apr 13 Coronavirus J&J Vaccine Pause Cuts Into Available Doses In The Ohio Valley State leaders around the Ohio Valley will temporarily have fewer doses of COVID-19 vaccine to distribute following the Food and Drug Administration’s decision Tuesday to pause the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Regional officials gave no indication that they will have shortages of vaccines as a result, but the pause on the Johnson […] By Suhail Bhat and Jeff Young Apr 13 Coronavirus J&J Vaccine Pause Cuts Into Available Doses In The Ohio Valley Suhail Bhat and Jeff Young
Mar 16 Coronavirus A Pandemic Year: See How COVID-19 Spread In The Ohio Valley See how COVID-19 spread across Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia, and how deaths mounted over time in counties around the region. By Suhail Bhat Mar 16 Coronavirus A Pandemic Year: See How COVID-19 Spread In The Ohio Valley Suhail Bhat
Mar 8 Community The Long Wait: As Lawmakers Prioritize Broadband, Rural Communities Wonder When It Will Reach Them As Barkley Hughes and I rumbled around in his red utility vehicle last month, memories slowly unwound about his western Kentucky hometown. Tolu, a historic Ohio River-bound community of less than a hundred, only makes up a few blocks before opening up into rolling farmland. Hughes openly admits it’s not near anywhere, but that’s part […] By Liam Niemeyer, Ohio Valley ReSource Mar 8 Community The Long Wait: As Lawmakers Prioritize Broadband, Rural Communities Wonder When It Will Reach Them Liam Niemeyer, Ohio Valley ReSource
Mar 1 Environment Heavy Rains Bring Flooding To Parts Of Kentucky, West Virginia Dozens of counties in Kentucky and West Virginia are cleaning up flood damage from heavy rains over the weekend. In Kentucky, a total of 34 counties and cities have declared states of emergency, including Breathitt, Calloway, Casey, Elliott, Estill, Johnson, Knott, Magoffin, Owsley, Perry and Pike counties and the cities of Paintsville and Salyersville. Of […] By Katie Myers Mar 1 Environment Heavy Rains Bring Flooding To Parts Of Kentucky, West Virginia Katie Myers
Mar 1 Health Vaccine Experts Answer Your Questions About Pfizer, Moderna And Johnson & Johnson Vaccines More than 2.5 million people in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia have been vaccinated with at least one dose of the Moderna or Pfzier COVID-19 vaccines. Little by little, states have received more vaccine doses, but the national supply remains low. However, more promise is on the horizon as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration […] By Corinne Boyer, Ohio Valley ReSource Mar 1 Health Vaccine Experts Answer Your Questions About Pfizer, Moderna And Johnson & Johnson Vaccines Corinne Boyer, Ohio Valley ReSource
Feb 26 Environment Climate Change Increases Flooding Risk For Some 230,000 Ohio Valley Homes A new analysis of flooding risk that accounts for the effects of climate change finds many more homes in Appalachian communities in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia are at risk of flooding than the federal government’s emergency managers have indicated. In 12 Appalachian counties in the region, at least half of all residences are at […] By Suhail Bhat and Jeff Young Feb 26 Environment Climate Change Increases Flooding Risk For Some 230,000 Ohio Valley Homes Suhail Bhat and Jeff Young
Dec 23 Health Overdose Deaths Hit New Highs As Pandemic Worsens Opioid Crisis New federal data shows the coronavirus pandemic has contributed to the country’s deadliest 12-month period for drug overdose fatalities, including a sharp increase in overdose deaths in the Ohio Valley. According to the latest data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 81,000 people died due to drug overdoses in the 12 months from […] By Suhail Bhat Dec 23 Health Overdose Deaths Hit New Highs As Pandemic Worsens Opioid Crisis Suhail Bhat
Dec 15 Health Ohio Valley Hospitals Filling Up Thanks To COVID-19 Surge New HHS data shows that many hospitals in the Ohio Valley are under strain, running short of bed space, especially for the most critically ill. By Suhail Bhat Dec 15 Health Ohio Valley Hospitals Filling Up Thanks To COVID-19 Surge Suhail Bhat
Nov 26 Health Sicker Staff, Fewer Beds For Rural Hospitals As COVID-19 Spreads Through Ohio Valley Dr. Kirk Tucker, chief clinical officer of Adena Health Systems in Chillicothe, Ohio, said a week before Thanksgiving that the health system’s three hospitals in southern Ohio were bombarded with coronavirus patients. But it isn’t just the patients testing positive. The virus has also sickened 65 of his fellow caregivers. Recently, Tucker said, a doctor […] By Corinne Boyer, Ohio Valley ReSource Nov 26 Health Sicker Staff, Fewer Beds For Rural Hospitals As COVID-19 Spreads Through Ohio Valley Corinne Boyer, Ohio Valley ReSource
Oct 25 Environment From Appalachia To Wyoming: Youth From Coal Country Discuss The Future After Coal On a recent Saturday, over Zoom, a group of seven high schoolers from Wyoming, eastern Kentucky and West Virginia gazed at an image of a gleaming, pale blue, coal-fired power plant. “OK, so this one really interested us,” said Sarah Belcher, a senior from eastern Kentucky. “So we noticed your all’s coal facilities, they’re really […] By Brittany Patterson, Ohio Valley ReSource Oct 25 Environment From Appalachia To Wyoming: Youth From Coal Country Discuss The Future After Coal Brittany Patterson, Ohio Valley ReSource