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Annual unemployment rates decreased in 102 Kentucky counties in 2022 – including Whitley, Laurel, Knox, Bell and McCreary counties – increased in 12 and stayed the same in six counties, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics (KYSTATS), an agency within the Kentucky...

Reid Elizabeth Bryant, the 2023 May Queen, and Hampton Dru Farmer, this year’s Tiny Queen, will be crowned Friday night, May 5, at 7 p.m. during the 80th presentation of the May Day Festival at The Corbin Arena. Bryant is the daughter of Michael and Rhonda Bryant. She will be...

Long-time Williamsburg Tourism Director Alvin Sharpe showed up at the Williamsburg Tourism and Convention Center Saturday afternoon to commemorate change only it wasn’t exactly the change that he was expecting. He thought that the change he was commemorating was just the...

If you are going to be out of town or physically unable to go vote on Election Day, which is on Tuesday, May 16, or you will be unable to go to the polls to vote during in-person early voting on Thursday, May 11, through Saturday, May 13, but you still want to cast a ballot, then...

Whitley County lost a great man this week with the passing of Keith Decker Monday. In addition to being a senior pastor at Black Oak Baptist Church, Keith was the founder and president of Cedaridge Ministries, which celebrated its 30th anniversary last year. Cedaridge traces its...

A trio of Pine Knot residents are each being held in jail in lieu of separate $500,000 cash bonds in connection to the slaying of another McCreary County man, whose skeletal remains were found in Whitley County last week. Roscoe Bryant, Broderick Taylor and Joe Bryant are all...

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