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Aug 5

Energy & Environment

In remote eastern Kentucky, neighbors help where no one else will

Ohio Valley ReSource · In remote eastern Kentucky, neighbors help where no one else will Over the past week, Havanna Thacker has transformed a historic high school in Carr Creek, Kentucky into a supply depot. While her mother whips up trays of food in a tiny cafeteria, she stocks the gym with supplies that people […]

By Justin Hicks

Aug 5

Energy & Environment

In eastern Ky, neighbors help each other through flood

By Justin Hicks

Aug 4

Energy & Environment

In Kentucky flooding epicenter, communities help each other and wait for assistance

Ohio Valley ReSource · In the epicenter of Kentucky flooding, communities help each other while waiting for assistance Runnels Branch is a long, winding holler that travels deep into a mountain from the Carr Fork Lake area in Knott County, Kentucky. Usually, the creek is a gentle presence by Sally Smith’s little white house, a […]

By Katie Myers

Aug 4

Energy & Environment

In Ky. flooding epicenter, communities help each other

Katie Myers

Aug 2

Arts & Culture

Whitesburg, Ky. begins to clean up and recover after record flooding

Ohio Valley ReSource · Whitesburg, Ky. begins to clean up and recover after record flooding In the Parlor Room, a longtime tattoo shop and music venue in downtown Whitesburg, the art-covered walls meet a bare floor, covered in mud. John Falter oversees rows of sketchbooks, with the tattoo artists’ drawings, drying beneath fans. “The water […]

By Katie Myers

Aug 2

Arts & Culture

Whitesburg, Ky. begins to clean up after flooding

Katie Myers

Jul 30

Energy & Environment

Eastern Kentuckians sift through debris after historic flood

Ohio Valley ReSource · Eastern Kentuckians clean up, count blessings as flood waters recede Andy Morell and his family watch layers of mud roll down into the storm gutter as a man power washes the residue left behind on their street in Whitesburg, Kentucky. “Physically, we’re drained. Emotionally drained. But you know, we’re glad to […]

By Katie Myers

Jul 30

Energy & Environment

Eastern Kentuckians sift through flood debris

Katie Myers

Jul 28

Democracy & Civic Life

Flooding devastates eastern Kentucky, more rain expected

Ohio Valley ReSource · Flooding devastates eastern Kentucky, more rain expected Eastern Kentuckians are living through one of the most devastating floods in state history. Torrential rains rolled in Wednesday night, washing away homes and submerged entire downtowns by Thursday morning. Heavy storms area expected to return to the area Thursday night, and more rain […]

By Ryland Barton and Katie Myers

Jul 28

Democracy & Civic Life

Flooding devastates eastern Kentucky, more rain expected

Ryland Barton and Katie Myers

Jul 28

Democracy & Civic Life

How to help flood victims in eastern Kentucky

This story was updated at 12:45 p.m. on Saturday, July 30. Residents in areas of eastern Kentucky are living through one of the worst flooding events in Kentucky history. The full extent of the devastation will take weeks to catalog, but emergency officials expect extensive property damage and loss of life. As of mid-day on […]

By Justin Hicks

Jul 28

Democracy & Civic Life

How to help flood victims in eastern Kentucky

Justin Hicks

Jul 24

Democracy & Civic Life

A storied Kentucky town ‘dissolves’, others may follow

The mayor of Blackey stepped down years ago. The city council dwindled down to nothing. No one stepped up to replace them. Though the former coal camp town still has an active community, politically, it was defunct. No one had been running the town for years. With no one to oversee the dispensation of municipal […]

By Katie Myers

Jul 24

Democracy & Civic Life

A storied Kentucky town ‘dissolves’, others may follow

Katie Myers

Jul 15

Criminal Justice

Prison nurseries allow ‘intimate moments’ necessary for childhood development

Ohio Valley ReSource · Prison nurseries allow for ‘intimate moments,’ childhood development Every morning Gianna wakes up in a wooden crib next to her mother’s bed. Sunlight streams through the window, warming the room and displaying the razor-wire fence just beyond the yard. Gianna has spent her first year of life in the nursery at […]

By Kaitlin Thorne

Jul 15

Criminal Justice

Prison nurseries allow for ‘intimate moments,’ childhood development

Kaitlin Thorne

Jul 5

Democracy & Civic Life

Rural Pride gatherings provide safe spaces for LGBTQ community

Ohio Valley ReSource · Rural Pride gatherings provide safe spaces for LGBTQ community It wasn’t long ago that Tonya Jones felt she couldn’t be out and proud in her eastern Kentucky hometown of Pikeville. She used to drive three hours to Lexington for any semblance of an LGBTQ-friendly community. “You’d always have to go away […]

By Katie Myers , Liam Niemeyer and Kaitlin Thorne

Jul 5

Democracy & Civic Life

Rural Pride gatherings provide safe spaces for LGBTQ community

Katie Myers, Liam Niemeyer and Kaitlin Thorne

Jul 4

Health

The Ohio Valley is poised to become an abortion desert

Ohio Valley ReSource · Ohio Valley poised to become an abortion desert It was already difficult to get an abortion in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia, but it’s about to become almost impossible after the U.S. Supreme Court left it up to states to decide reproductive rights. All three states have laws in place […]

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Jul 4

Health

The Ohio Valley is poised to become an abortion desert

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