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A piece of bipartisan legislation bearing the name of a Whitley County native has been reintroduced to help expedite benefits for coal miners with black lung disease. U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) and U.S. Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA) reintroduced the John “J.L.” White...

The Whitley County Fiscal Court unanimously approved Southeast Apparatus’s bid for new ambulances at its Jan. 18 meeting. Southeast Apparatus submitted the only bid for the new ambulance vehicles. The bid came in at $203,434 per ambulance. The Whitley County Fiscal Court will...

Whitley County Sanitation’s garbage service will now be able to a run more smoothly since the new transfer station is officially open and operational. Community leaders cut the ribbon on the transfer station located off Happy Hollow Road behind Wendy’s in Williamsburg on Jan. 12....

There is officially a new sheriff in Whitley County as Danny Moses was sworn in Tuesday to replace Todd Shelley who retired. Moses is moving over from his position as Whitley County Emergency Management Director emphasizing that it is on an interim basis. “I’m taking it until the...