On this West Virginia Morning, Mason County's four billion dollar NUCOR steel plant is now more than half way to completion. Randy Yohe reports that with the facility and others on the way, an employee housing challenge looms large throughout this western West Virginia region.

And in the forests outside Louisville, Kentucky the season of the rare Appalachian blue ghost fireflies is at its peak. Kentucky Public Radio’s Sylvia Goodman takes us to the Bernheim Forest and Arboretum, a half hour drive south of Louisville, to learn about the efforts to study the rare Appalachian lightning bug.

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Maria Young produced this episode.

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