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With spring fast approaching, Cumberland Fall State Park is kicking off hiking season Saturday evening with a trek to Pinnacle Knob Fire Tower. At 5 p.m., participants will leave from the park lodge to the trailhead. Olivia Immitt, Parks Program Services Leader, said the hike is...

Cumberland Falls State Park is offering a hopping good way to celebrate leap year. Visitors are invited to stop by the visitor’s center and craft a marshmallow frog. “It is basically a play on the leap year pun,” said Olivia Immitt, Parks Program Services Leader. Between 2 and 3...

E-mails promising a “BIG surprise” are pretty common, but they usually turn out just to be SPAM or a scam. Every so often though, such e-mails live up to their billing. Pleasant View Elementary School Principal Bobby Gibbs can personally attest to this fact. “It was a pretty...

Victoria Doan is a 26-year-old wife and mother living in Corbin. She is a 2012 graduate of Williamsburg High School who will soon be completing a cosmetology program. Her future plans include working locally to build up a client base before eventually starting her own business,...

A Williamsburg man is currently being held in the Whitley County Detention Center in lieu of a $7,500 cash bond after allegedly strangling his wife Saturday afternoon. Whitley District Judge Fred White entered a not guilty plea Monday for David R. Young, 35, who is charged with...

Earlier this month, the Whitley County Fiscal Court got into the garbage collection business in response to a move by an existing waste hauler, which refused to provide service any longer to some places in the KY 92E area of the county. On Monday afternoon, the fiscal court took...

If you live in the Tri-County area and you have old tires that you need to get rid of, then you will soon be in luck. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 11 and the Kentucky Division of Waste Management will be hosting several waste tire clean ups from March through May....

The region of Kentucky known as Daniel Boone Country that stretches from the Virginia border to just west of Interstate 75, is working to get the word out, and that word is, “DBC.” Corbin Tourism Director Maggy Kriebel recently unveiled the new stickers that are being made...

The Whitley County Sheriff’s Department had a busy start to 2020. During the month of January, sheriff’s deputies answered 1,093 criminal complaints and responded to 28 motor vehicle collisions. The sheriff’s department also investigated 26 criminal cases, and made 96 criminal...

About $1.8 million has been allocated for work to state maintained roadways in Whitley County during the 2020-2021 fiscal year. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet officials presented the Whitley County Fiscal Court last week with a list of seven roads that will be partially worked...