Justin Hicks
Data Reporter, Ohio Valley ReSourceJustin Hicks is the data reporter for the Ohio Valley Resource, Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting and WFPL.
Hicks comes to the region from Indiana Public Broadcasting, where he covered workforce issues for their statewide network. In his role, Hicks balances long-term projects, deep-dive investigations and collaborate with reporters with data-focused stories.
He has a master’s degree from NYU and a bachelor’s in music from Appalachian State University where he played trumpet and developed a love for hiking in Appalachia. He‘s also worked as a music teacher.
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Federal prosecutors rested their case Thursday, the fourth day of testimony in the retrial of Brett Hankison, a former detective accused of blindly firing shots into Breonna Taylor’s apartment in March 2020. -
As climate change increases the risk of flooding in eastern Kentucky, the state is building high ground communities to help residents, but one small mountain town has their own vision for high ground homes. -
Starting next month, more kids who are charged with violent crimes will be automatically prosecuted as adults. In Louisville, police data show most will be Black. -
Each year, your Kentucky lawmakers make hundreds of votes. But the record of how they vote is captured in not-so-easy-to-use PDF files. We had a computer scrape hundreds of documents to produce an easy-to-use voting record. Kentucky Public Radio's Capitol team then selected the most important bills to highlight. -
Candidates are set for Kentucky’s 2024 elections, but many races have little or no competition. -
The Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage Project is undergoing a long federal permitting process to store electricity from the grid in the form of water. -
Kentucky first-term congressman Rep. Morgan McGarvey is working with a group of Washington Democrats to make benefits for black lung victims more accessible, but the legislation lacks bipartisan support. -
Mine advocates and companies commented in Washington, D.C. this week, expressing lots of different concerns. If passed, the new rules would attempt to keep mine workers, including coal miners in Kentucky, safer while they work. -
Christmas has come and gone, but the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources wants your Christmas tree to create fish habitats. -
Black lung has surged in Appalachia in recent years. Research has tied the epidemic to silica dust, which can burrow deep into miners’ lungs.
