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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West Virginia will opt out in hopes of local governments being able to pursue lawsuits on their own, the attorney general said Wednesday. -
No one has passed away from the virus since Friday.
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Since Gov. Jim Justice announced the lottery in late May, vaccinations have steadily declined. About 2,500 people a day got newly vaccinated in the few days before Justice’s announcement. Now, about six weeks later, that number has fallen 70 percent.
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West Virginia saw an almost 40 percent increase in these deaths compared to 2019.
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Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said Tuesday he doesn’t agree with the settlement formula, which would allocate funds largely based on population. He said West Virginia needs a bigger piece of the pie, since it was hit so hard by the opioid epidemic.
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Of those that entered one Virginia clinic since 2018, a third showed signs of depression and anxiety, a quarter experienced symptoms of PTSD, and one out of ten patients have considered suicide.
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The city and county are half way through an unlikely federal trial.
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A federal judge in West Virginia has issued a temporary restraining order to stop a new state law that would put strict restrictions on needle exchange programs
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In a press release Monday, Young said she took a new job offer. She didn’t disclose what role that might be. She will stay on as interim director until a replacement is found.
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Some health providers and church leaders say the city needs to better address a cluster of HIV cases as well as the rise in opioid overdose deaths.
