Ohio Valley Resource

In West Virginia the childhood obesity rate is 21.9%. Both Kentucky and West Virginia’s rates are much higher compared to the national rate of 16.2%. Ohio's childhood obesity rate is slightly above the national average at 17.2%.

Monoclonal antibody treatments, used to treat the virus in its early stages, are in short supply nationwide. Hospitals must request the treatments. But, as the demand for those treatments increase, there’s now a shortage of the treatment.

Mountaineer has been generating electric power since Jimmy Carter was president.But due to changing environmental regulations and the competition from natural gas and renewable energy, time could be running out.

Two major funds meant to address those legacy impacts depend almost entirely on the declining revenues of the coal industry and the will of Congress to remain solvent. Now, both are due for renewal, and could be reduced, or even allowed to expire.

The January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol left five people dead and caused an estimated $1.5 million in damage to the Capitol building. In the six months…

Cultural anthropologist Betsy Taylor, director of the Livelihood Knowledge Exchange Network, on forest farming and heir property in E. KY | Zach Foster,…

What's wrong with the state's Unemployment Insurance system? It's a long story | EKU Psychologist Melinda Moore on reopening schools | Part II: addiction,…

What's wrong with the state's Unemployment Insurance system? It's a long story. Kentucky Auditor Mike Harmon has looked under the hood | Covid, schools,…

“The talk.” Berea College professor Dwayne Mack discusses the day-to-day of parenting and growing up Black in an inhospitable world. | Corrine Boyer with…

“The talk.” Berea College professor Dwayne Mack discusses the day-to-day of parenting and growing up Black in an inhospitable world. | Corinne Boyer with…