Clearing Away The Litter Nearly 250 people helped keep Dewey Lake clean Saturday morning. Since the early 1990s, this clean-up effort has grown each year. Nearly 15-20 tons of trash was bagged and tossed away properly. “Clean up our…
Judge Issues Restraining Order, Blocking ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Abortion-rights defenders opened a new legal fight against Kentucky on Friday to try to block one of the country’s most restrictive abortion measures, which would mostly ban the procedure once a fetal…
Louisville Zoo Re-Opens The Louisville Zoo in Kentucky is set to reopen today after a sinkhole opened up and ate a patch of land about as wide as a football field. The sinkhole opened last week and was estimated…
KY Legislature Borrows Some Money The Kentucky legislature agreed Thursday to borrow more money, wrapping up a legislative session that ensures the cash-strapped state will have at least $108 million less per year to spend in the coming decades.Lawmakers…
Eastern KY’s AppHarvest Featured In Documentary Sunday’s episode of ’60 Minutes’ will feature a familiar company – Eastern Kentucky’s AppHarvest, a high-tech agriculture company.AppHarvest was originally going to base its operations out of Pike County, but now they plan…
Kentucky House Approves Bill Banning Tobacco Use on School Grounds The Kentucky House of Representatives has approved a bill that would force some school districts to address tobacco use on campus. Lawmakers approved House Bill 11 by a vote…
Letcher County Looking for Volunteer Firefighters Officials in Letcher County are looking for volunteers at fire departments countywide. Volunteer fire stations need only 13 people on their roster to be considered a certified fire department but even filling those…
Mill Springs Battlefield Becomes National Park After more than two decades in the works, the latest expansion of national parks and monuments has finally included Mill Springs Battlefield. The historic Civil War Battlefield has 900 acres spanning Pulaski and…
Eastern Kentucky Special Election Gives GOP Largest Margin in KY Senate in 50 Years The GOP will have its largest margin ever in the state Senate after voters in an eastern Kentucky district elected a Republican for the first…
Kentucky House, Senate Tackle Hepatitis A Outbreak Kentucky lawmakers on Monday confronted the statewide spread of hepatitis A, advancing a proposal calling for an examination of the state’s response to one of the country’s worst outbreaks of the disease.…