June Leffler
Appalachia Health News ReporterJune Leffler is West Virginia Public Broadcasting's health reporter. She grew up in Louisville, KY.
June spent three years as a public radio reporter in rural Alaska. She ran a one-woman newsroom at KSTK in Wrangell, Alaska, while also contributing to Alaska Public Media and stations throughout Southeast Alaska. She has won excellence in journalism awards from the Alaska Broadcasting Association and the Alaska Press Club.
Before moving to Alaska, June interned at the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting.
June grew up making DIY zines after finding a stash of her mom's publications in the basement. She spent her whole adolescence and early adult life making zines. The Kentucky Foundation for Women awarded her two grants to produce the Louisville based youth arts zine, Goodwill Zine, which ran from 2009 to 2012.
She graduated from the University of Louisville and then received a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
Contact her at jleffler@wvpublic.org.
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Under a new state law, needle exchange programs must now get local buy-in from county and city leaders. Without it, these programs can’t legally operate. -
Hundreds of workers at Cabell Huntington Hospital have been on strike for 16 days. Struggles on the picket line and at the negotiation table are growing more tense by the day.
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West Virginians are more likely to have a smoking habit than those living in any other state, according to the association’s 2021 State of Lung Cancer report. Almost a quarter of adults in the state smoke cigarettes.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released preliminary data Wednesday that estimates 100,000 people died in just a 12-month span -- from March 2020 to March 2021. During those months, 1,600 West Virginians passed away.
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The university says it was awarded $203 million in the last fiscal year.
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Almost 80 grade schools entered the West Virginia Department of Education's “I Got Vaxxed” Competition. Four elementary, middle and high schools with the highest percentage of students and staff vaccinated have won $50,000 each.
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Anyone 18 and younger who is vaccinated can register for the lottery online starting on Tuesday. The deadline to enter the first drawing is Nov. 14.
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COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have been declining for weeks in the Mountain State. Those are signs that the delta surge is on a downturn, but COVID-related deaths are the last indicator of a variant’s course.
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She will be speaking in Charleston this Sunday with Kentucky author Robert Gipe. The event is set for 2 p.m. at Taylor Books.
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Federal health agencies have authorized the COVID-19 vaccine for ages 5 through 11. That means about 140,000 kids in West Virginia are newly eligible to get their shots, according to an estimate from the State Department of Health and Human Resources.
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