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WSAZ2h ago

“There’s a bigger potential for really strong winds, strong thunderstorms, even possibly flooding," one offical said.

Harlan Enterprise4h ago

Bridge repair work on KY 38 in Harlan County. 📍 Location: KY 38 at mile point 8.2 📅 Dates: Through Friday, July 31 🕗 Work begins: 8 a.m. on Monday [...]

WTVQ ABC 369h ago

MAYFIELD, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) - A 13-year-old remains hospitalized after being stabbed during a confrontation with another juvenile in Mayfield, according to police. The Mayfield Police Department said officers responded about 4:45 p.m. Saturday to both Jackson Purchase Medical Center and the Scott Thompson Tennis Courts along Kentucky Highway 121 after receiving reports of a stabbing. Investiga

WTVQ ABC 369h ago

LONDON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) - London Police Chief Bobby Day resigned from the London Police Department Monday, with his attorney citing a political environment that he says has shifted away from the department's core public safety mission. Day's attorney, Gregory A. Ousley of Ousley & Wiese, PLLC, delivered a formal notice of resignation to London Mayor Tracie Handley....

Kentucky Lantern10h ago

Kentuckians are feeling the strain as residential energy bills sky-rocket and historic heat waves grip the region. Families need solutions that will lower energy burdens and monthly costs. For that reason, Sierra Club Kentucky – alongside six other community advocacy organizations – submitted a letter to the state’s Public Service Commission (PSC) asking that the [...]

WTVQ ABC 3610h ago

(ABC 36 NEWS NOW) - Former Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear senior advisor Rocky Adkins has taken the first formal step toward a campaign for governor. According to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance, Adkins has filed campaign finance paperwork indicating he intends to run for governor. The filing includes a statement of spending intent, stating that he expects to raise...

Kentucky Lantern15h ago

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear appointed his former senior adviser, Rocky Adkins, to the Kentucky State Fair Board, which is embroiled in controversy after the governor gained control of the board following a recent Kentucky Supreme Court opinion. Adkins, who left Beshear’s administration earlier this month amid speculation that he will run for governor in 2027, [...]

Kentucky Lantern15h ago

Renee Shaw, a notable Kentucky journalist who has worked at KET for 29 years, will retire from the state’s public television network at the end of July. Shaw, the director of Public Affairs and moderator at KET, hosts Kentucky Edition weekly and Kentucky Tonight, the network’s public policy discussion series. Ahead of elections, she moderates [...]

Kentucky Lantern20h ago

In 1996, the Cigarette Papers was published, revealing how Kentucky’s Tobacco and Health Research Institute at the University of Kentucky presented itself as an independent arm of a publicly funded university, but in fact it was run by tobacco manufacturers and their highly paid lawyers. Although the purported goals of the institute were to conduct [...]

Harlan EnterpriseJul 19

By Paul Lunsford Harlan Enterprise WHITESBURG — Kentucky State Police Post 13 received a 911 call on Saturday around 4:40 p.m., about a shooting at a laundromat located on Jenkins [...]

Mountain EagleJul 18

A Whitesburg woman was critically wounded Saturday afternoon in a shooting at a laundromat on Jenkins Road, and her ex-husband later died from what Kentucky State Police describe as a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to a news release issued Saturday night by Kentucky State Police Post 13 in Hazard, troopers received a 911 call at approximately 4:39 p.m. reporting a [...] The post KENTUCKY

Harlan EnterpriseJul 18

By Paul Lunsford Harlan Enterprise Kentucky State Police Trooper Colby Amburgey made an arrest Thursday of an Ages man. Billy Jack Hickson, 40, was charged with several violations late Thursday [...]

Appalachian News-ExpressJul 17

Artificial intelligence may sound like something happening far away in Silicon Valley, Washington, or overseas, but AI depends on something very real: electricity, land, cooling, fiber, roads, workers, substations, transmission lines, and industrial infrastructure.

Appalachian News-ExpressJul 17

There's totally a solution for that problem. Or should I say there's a Total-T solution?

Mountain EagleJul 15

A trail camera in southern Letcher County captured this remarkable close-up of a young hawk as it spread its wings while landing only a few feet from the camera. The photograph was taken at 11:30 a.m. July 10 at Payne Gap near the headwaters of the North Fork of the Kentucky River, where Pine Mountain rises above the valley. Based [...] The post Young Hawk Makes Dramatic Appearance first appeared

Mountain EagleJul 15

Regional economic development officials are actively recruiting companies to build artificial intelligence data centers in Letcher County and neighboring counties, and one company has already secured an option to purchase land at the Gateway Regional Business Park in Jenkins for a proposed natural gas-fired power plant intended to support a future data center. Diversified Energy, formerly known as

Mountain EagleJul 15

Three people, including a Jenkins man accused of firing a handgun during a domestic dispute and later threatening police officers, have been named in felony indictments returned by the Letcher County Grand Jury. The indictments were returned July 9 before Letcher Circuit Judge James W. Craft II. Jesse James Thacker, 39, of 204 Rocky Hollow, Jenkins, was indicted on two [...] The post Indictment sa

Mountain EagleJul 15

Four-star offensive lineman Dominic Black of New Madison (Ohio) Tri-Village High School had almost 40 major college scholarship offers when he committed to Kentucky over Indiana, Tennessee, Virginia Tech, Michigan State and others. The 6-foot-5, 290-pound Black is rated as a top-200 national recruit by both Rivals and 247Sports. Rivals has him as the No. 12 offensive tackle in his [...] The post T

Mountain EagleJul 15

There will always be parts of a lake that hold more fish than others. Fishermen refer to these areas as hot spots or honey holes. But there has to be something about these places that consistently produces better fishing than surrounding water. Features such as quick access to both deep and shallow water, abundant baitfish, several forms of cover at [...] The post The importance finding a great sp

Mountain EagleJul 15

The Letcher Fiscal Court will add another $1,000 per month to the amount it pays the Kentucky River Regional Animal Shelter after the shelter’s board chair told members of the court it did not have enough money to pay its bills. The shelter, located off KY 80 in Perry County, handles stray dogs and cats from four counties, and is [...] The post County to more in support of animal shelter first app

100 Days in AppalachiaJun 15

Throughout the Ohio River island’s history, flora and fauna have reacted and adjusted to human development like oil and gas wells. As humans abandoned the infrastructure, they've reclaimed their space. The post Muskingum: The End of an Island Refuge's Fossil Fuel Legacy appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia .