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The Kentucky Department of Education released its 2022-2023 school report card data last week, which gauges each school district and individual school within the state based on several criteria, such as test scores and student readiness. Based on this year’s data, area schools...

As the old saying goes, most accidents happen close to home, or, in the case of a Whitley County school bus Monday morning, close to school. No one was injured during an accident involving school bus #083, which was in route to the main campus with 27 high school and middle...

Fatemia Fuson with the Whitley County School District and Suzanne Gibbs with the Corbin Independent School District have been named as new members of the 2023-2024 School Counselor Advisory Council (SCAC), along with 25 of their colleagues, the Kentucky Department of Education...

If you are an adult living in Whitley County and have thought about a career in welding but didn’t know where to get training, then you are in luck. Starting in August, Whitley County High School will be offering a welding night class two nights a week, and you have to already...

When it heard about construction updates on building projects throughout the school district, the Whitley County Board of Education got one particularly costly bit of bad news during its monthly meeting Thursday along with several pieces of good news. Read this story and more for...

A generous grant of $130,000 has been provided to combat hunger in the summer, thanks to the No Kids Hungry organization’s commitment to ending hunger and poverty, and a portion of that funding is going to the Williamsburg Independent School and the Whitley County School...

The Whitley County School District will soon be adding an additional school resource officer (SRO) for the upcoming academic school year. There is also an update on construction projects occurring within the district. The Whitley County Board of Education recently met for their...

Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating an incident Monday morning involving a Whitley North Elementary School student, who brought a kitchen knife to school and injured another student. According to an automated call that Superintendent John Siler sent out to...

Several building projects in the Whitley County School District are nearing completion, including the new Whitley County High School Career and Technical Education (CTE) building, the Oak Grove Elementary School Cafeteria expansion and the Whitley North Elementary School HVAC...

FINAL UPDATE: After eluding police for more than 12 hours, Brady Bowman has been arrested. Whitley County Sheriff Bill Elliotte confirmed that Bowman was apprehended just after 11 p.m. Friday. “He was up in the mountains in a tree stand. [Kentucky State Police’s]...