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Williamsburg Independent School is asking the local community to “Be Our Guest” for their Second Annual Disney Character Brunch. The brunch is being held Saturday, March 11 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Williamsburg Convention and Tourism Center. Entry is $10 per person and the...

The second of three men who attempted to escape from the Whitley County Detention Center last year has entered a guilty plea to charges stemming from the incident. Paul Brock, 42, faced charges of attempting to escape from a penitentiary, first-degree persistent felony offender...

Whitley County has formally joined the fray in a multi-county lawsuit against the Kentucky Department of Corrections (KDOC). During the Whitley County Fiscal Court’s regular monthly meeting on Feb. 21, magistrates authorized the county to join the lawsuit, which was originally...

The Whitley County Fiscal Court is getting a $50,000 federal grant to purchase three new trucks for local law enforcement. These vehicles will help officers respond to emergencies and provide efficient and effective law enforcement and emergency response in one of Kentucky’s...

Williamsburg residents and visitors now have some new public art pieces that they can check out. A total of three new bronze statues are in the process of being installed. One of the new statues in front of the old Whitley County Courthouse depicts a little girl with a cat while...

A larger, more accommodating entrance could be added to the Whitley County Fairgrounds in the near future, as the beginning steps have been set in motion. During the Whitley County Fiscal Court’s regular monthly meeting last week, magistrates approved the hiring on an engineering...

Public defender, prosecutor, Survivor, legislator—Nick Wilson has now done it all.  Elected in November to serve as the 82nd House District Representative, which covers Whitley County and a small portion of southern Laurel County, Wilson is currently in the midst of his first...

A total of 21 different people were recently indicted by information in Whitley Circuit Court on charges ranging from drug possession to receiving stolen property and burglary. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login...

When it comes to people eating at restaurants and staying at hotels and motels in Corbin, things seem to have largely returned to pre-pandemic levels or better based upon restaurant tax revenue and transient room tax (motel tax) revenue that the Corbin Tourism Commission receives...

Williamsburg’s Vincent Tomasino was shocked after he scratched off a Kentucky Lottery ticket winning $50,000. Tomasino stopped at the Pilot Travel Center on Ky. 92 last week and purchased three 500X Scratch-off tickets. He decided before leaving the store to buy one more ticke...