Ohio Valley

College Towns Feel Financial Impact Of Pandemic

By • Sep 4, 2020
Aaron Payne / Ohio Valley ReSource

  The first day of classes at Ohio University is subdued this year. A few students walk across the Athens, Ohio, campus wearing masks. A group sits, socially distanced, on blankets on the green.

Kentucky Homeless Services Systems Can’t Handle The Coming “Tsunami of Evictions,” Advocates Warn

By • Jul 31, 2020
Jebulon / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Kentucky Homeless Services Systems Can’t Handle The Coming “Tsunami of Evictions,” Advocates Warn

Nearly 1 million renter households across the Ohio Valley are unable to pay rent and at risk of eviction, according to research firm Stout. That amounts to 42 percent of renter households in Kentucky, 46 percent in Ohio and 47 percent in West Virginia.

Investor Pulls Out Of Proposed Belmont County Cracker Plant

By Brittany Patterson • Jul 14, 2020
Brittany Patterson / Ohio Valley ReSource

Daelim Chemical USA, a major investment partner in a proposed ethane cracker plant in Belmont County, Ohio, announced on Tuesday that it is exiting the project. 

Ohio Valley Still Processing Significant Unemployment Claims

By • Apr 23, 2020
Becca Schimmel / WKYU

Unemployment insurance claims are still reaching unprecedented levels across the Ohio Valley region.

Black Lung Benefits Drop For Kentucky Coal Miners After Controversial Law Change

By • Feb 24, 2020
Adelina Lancianese / NPR

Lynn Estel Stanley was the kind of coal mine foreman who wanted to know if there was a safety problem, and would always be the one to go fix it himself. He was also the kind of miner who refused to slow down, even when his men told him he was overexerting himself. But when he was 69, his doctor told him it was time to stop for good.

Rising Waters: Aging Levees, Climate Change And The Challenge To Hold Back The Ohio River

By • Dec 19, 2019
Liam Niemeyer / Ohio Valley Resource

  When 78-year-old Jim Casto looks at the towering floodwalls that line downtown Huntington, West Virginia, he sees a dark history of generations past.