Ryan Van Velzer
Managing Editor of CollaborativesRyan Van Velzer is the managing editor of Kentucky Public Radio and the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom.
Ryan graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and has more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has worked for The Arizona Republic, The Associated Press, The South Florida Sun Sentinel and as a travel reporter in Central America and Southeast Asia.
He has won numerous awards including regional Edward R. Murrow awards, Associated Press Broadcasters awards and Society of Professional Journalists Louisville Pro Chapter awards.
Email him at rvanvelzer@lpm.org.
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The local air quality regulator in Louisville would have some of its powers to issue fines to polluting industries curbed under a bill that passed the state House Tuesday. -
A Kentucky GOP House Representative who has worked for a chemical company in Louisville’s Rubbertown is sponsoring legislation that would strip local air pollution regulators of the ability to issue some fines to industries like his own. -
Kentucky State Police evacuated the state Capitol following a threat received by the Secretary of State’s Office early Wednesday. -
Kentucky officials and environmental advocates secured the deal last week. In total, it will protect nearly 55,000 acres in the Cumberland Forest Wildlife Management Area in Bell, Knox and Leslie counties. -
Despite promises made by Mayor Craig Greenberg to increase transparency and reduce backlogs in open records requests back in May, Louisville Metro's records backlog has gotten worse. -
In the latest round of testing for forever chemicals, the Kentucky Division of Water discovered high rates in two communities. Now, municipal leaders are working with state officials to try and fix it. -
Kentucky’s state government and some of the state’s largest cities are both applying for hundreds of millions of dollars to support the growth of solar for low-income and disadvantaged communities. -
Utility regulators approved the retirement of two coal-fired generating units and deferred the retirement of two others last week. Here’s how a law that makes it more difficult to retire fossil fuel generating units affected plans for new power generation. -
The threats Kentuckians face from climate change are growing. So long as there are greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, warming is virtually guaranteed to continue harming human health, the economy, infrastructure and food systems, according to the latest federal report on climate change released Tuesday.
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Louisville Metro Police Department officers responded to a domestic violence incident Monday afternoon in South Louisville that resulted in officers shooting a suspect.
