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Even though the 2022 Whitley County Fair is over, this doesn’t mean that the Whitley County Fair Board has quit working. Given all the devastation going on in Eastern Kentucky brought about by flooding, the Whitley County Fair Board has decided to host another mud bog later this...

A Whitley County High School alumnus is one of 30 college students representing 22 Kentucky counties, who are recipients of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) scholarships to help pay for tuition and land a full-time job building a better Kentucky through transportation,...

One could make a strong argument that becoming the newest family and consumer sciences education extension agent at the Whitley County Cooperative Extension Office was something Linda Burgard was meant to do, but it just took her a little while to get here. She was born and...

Whitley County High School is staying on the cutting edge when it comes to agricultural education thanks to an all-new, 2,000-square-foot hydroponic greenhouse facility that is slated to be fully operational this fall.

The Corbin Police Department answered 1,390 calls during the month of July. Officers issued 194 total citations for traffic or criminal offenses, and made 125 total arrests. Out of those arrests, there were 42 criminal arrests, and 83 warrants served, according to a Corbin Police...

When it comes to helping Kentucky flood relief efforts, almost every Arby’s store in Kentucky will be doing its part to help raise money for victims on Monday, Aug. 15. On that date, 100 percent of the sales at each Arby’s restaurant in Kentucky, except stores in...

More than a dozen regional students came together last week at Williamsburg Independent School for an in-person training as part of a program that allows these students to both get hands-on IT work experience and make money. The program is headed up by Dataseam, a...

“Buddy, I lost my town,” was the response Hindman Mayor Tracy Neice had to his friend, Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison, when Harrison called to check on him after the floods. “They were saying just imagine if you were having to camp out because you had nothing, then how would...

2021 Rogers Scholar and Corbin High School student Grace Gibson partnered with Corbin Independent Schools to present birthday bags for 108 students at Corbin Preschool Center as her community service project. Each bag contained a box of cake mix, icing, candles, a disposable pan,...

Governor Andy Beshear’s office recently announced that a total of $75 million would be distributed across the Commonwealth to help boost the state’s tourism industry and economy following a decline in visitors brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.