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![Miners walk into the mobile health clinic as it makes a stop in Morgantown, WV.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Coal-Miner-Black-Lung-Screening-081018-NIOSH-TWITTER-e1533928838916-900x422.jpg)
A tax to provide benefits to black lung victims is permanent, but might not fix all the fund’s problems
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HAZARD, Ky. (OVR) — It’s early in the morning outside a Hampton Inn in Hazard, Ky. A bright blue-and-white RV covered in larger-than-life portraits of coal miners sits smack in the… Read More
![A Perry County school bus lies destroyed after being caught up in the floodwaters of Lost Creek in Ned, Ky., on Friday.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ap22210631164139-f7e6d23bdf0715592048ee59e1ea21e1b51401c8-scaled-e1659200466978-900x422.jpg)
Legal advocates applaud FEMA changes in Kentucky, but they say transparency is needed
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WHITESBURG, Ky. (OVR) — After heavy flooding in eastern Kentucky, locals and officials are frustrated with the federal government’s system for disaster aid. People say the process is confusing, sending… Read More
![Havanna Thacker’s mother and an older couple who live near the former high school make hot food to deliver to people up in remote mountain communities still without power and water.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/KY-flooding-feature-e1659897371191-900x422.jpg)
In remote eastern Kentucky, neighbors help where no one else will
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CARR CREEK, Ky. (OVR) — 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… Read More