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Williamsburg will soon have an official historic district, which Mayor Roddy Harrison hopes will lead to downtown revitalization. “The benefits of this are preservation and it also offers potential resources that are available, such state and federal tax credits, incentives and...

Eighteen days after a Williamsburg woman was released from jail on a surety bond for allegedly trafficking methamphetamine, she landed back behind bars for allegedly possessing methamphetamine. Felicia A. Blakley, 27, was one of four people arrested Sunday evening during a...

A decision on whether the Corbin Tourism Commission will pay Wasatch Railroad Group an additional $10,000 for moving L&N 2132, along with its coal tender and a caboose from Bainbridge, Ga. to Corbin remains up in the air as the vote on the matter ended in a 3-3 deadlock...

Sherrie Mays, MSN, RN was named Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for Baptist Health Corbin. Sherrie joined Baptist in 1983 as a staff nurse.  In 1995, she was named Director of Women’s and Children’s Services. Leadership for the Surgery Department was added to her...

The big question on everyone’s mind now that Barbourville residents have approved the sale of alcohol is will it be sold on Sunday. The answer is yes. The second reading of Barbourville’s Resolution 2016-1 was held last Friday; however, the vote by the city council to...

A Barbourville woman admitted in court Monday morning that she shot her husband on July 4, 2015, and conceded that prosecutors likely had enough evidence to convict her of shooting him again on Aug. 22, 2015, although she maintains she’s innocent in the second shooting...

An event to encourage organ donation and to support a program that advocates for it will be held at the Whitley Circuit Clerk’s office in Corbin in honor of a former employee, tragically murdered in his home along with his wife and daughter last year. On Friday, Feb. 12, Trust...

After sitting vacant since the new location opened, the former Speedway gas station on Cumberland Falls Hwy. is under new ownership. However, plans for the property remain guarded. According to a deed filed Jan. 13 with the Whitley County Clerk, BBM-I Properties, LLC purchased...

The Whitley County Fiscal Court has been awarded $56,907.78 in environmental funds to clean up five illegal dumps, which are located in three different regions of the county. The funding will be used to clean-up two illegal dumps off Myers Road and three small dumps off Barnhill...

A 66-year-old Somerset man, who is accused of sexually abusing three female relatives about 20 years ago, has agreed to accept a five-year prison sentence for his crimes. On Oct. 21, 2013, a Whitley County Grand Jury indicted Roger Martin Ruggles for first-degree rape, incest,...