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A new festival, which is slated to take place Saturday in downtown Williamsburg, aims to highlight regional arts, music, food and beverage within the Southeastern Kentucky region. “The River Fog Festival is the first of many opportunities Why Whitley has planned for our...

The Whitley County School System is one of 91 school districts across the nation selected to receive grant money from the U.S. Department of Justice in an effort to curb school violence. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day!...

Kentucky’s Commissioner of Agriculture said last week that the state is well positioned to be even more of an agricultural powerhouse than it is today, provided it continues on a course of diversification and innovation. Ryan Quarles, who was on a re-election tour of sorts,...

Fire hazard season is here once again in Knox County and officials want to warn the public – if you start a wildfire, you could be held responsible for the cost to put it out. The fall wildfire hazard season officially began on Monday, October 1 and will continue through December...

The University of the Cumberlands’ attempt to get its name into the Guiness Book of World Records has come up short. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this content. Not a Member? Join Us

Two people were arrested at Corbin Manor Apartments Friday morning after Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies were called to investigate separate complaints of drug use, and children living in squalid conditions. Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, the department’s public affairs officer, said...

Approximately 500 people and 40 cooks turned out Saturday for the 2018 Moonbow EggFest in Corbin. Corbin Tourism Director Maggy Kriebel said while the number of cooks was up, the number of patrons was down by approximately 100. “We were competing with UK football,” Kriebel sai...

Cumberland Falls is known as the “Niagara of the South,” and for good reason. A 125-foot wide curtain of water plunges 65 feet over the falls. The volume of water pouring over Cumberland Falls is the second greatest east of the Mississippi River after Niagara Falls. Cumberland...

Over a dozen churches from the South Union-Mt. Zion Baptist Association took part in Operation Inasmuch Saturday, which was held in the parking lot at Cumberland Regional Mall. Despite the weather, about three-dozen volunteers came out Saturday to give away free canned goods,...

Kentucky State Police have positively identified a woman found dead in Knox County in 1985 as a missing North Carolina woman. Trooper Shane Jacobs, public affairs officer at Post 10 in Harlan, said Monday that the remains located on the side of U.S. 25E in Gray, have been...