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Whitley County Health Department Public Health Director Martha Steele addresses the Williamsburg City Council about a proposed needle exchange program. Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison, who serves on the Whitley County Health Department Board of Directors, admits that when the...

Concerts with bluegrass, gospel and country-rock artists, a large car show and several new food vendors will highlight this year’s 33rd Annual Old Fashioned Trading Days festival that will kick off Thursday and run through Saturday evening in Williamsburg. “It is...

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has appointed Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison to the Kentucky 911 Services Board. Bevin made Harrison’s appointment to the 911 Services Board Friday afternoon along the appointment of three other people: Daniel L. Bell, Robert J. Leeper and...

Former Williamsburg Police Chief Russell Jones, who spent nearly three decades serving the public by working in law enforcement, has gone on to serve a higher power. Jones, 65, died at Baptist Health Corbin Saturday following a lengthy battle with cancer. “He embodied the...

Mark White is Editor of The News Journal. In 2007, Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison had a problem. His police chief, who two months earlier had been suspended after a failed drug test, resigned after another drug test came back with a diluted sample. A year earlier, another...

Adam Childress is accused of murder after allegedly getting drunk at VFW and running over a man on a sidewalk. The case has sparked various litigation. An attorney for a Williamsburg man, who allegedly ran over and killed a man out walking his dog along a sidewalk nearly five...

UPDATE: Kentucky State Police have identified the two individuals killed Tuesday morning when they were struck by a train. The individuals were 18-year-old Jordan X. Carr of Williamsburg and 18-year-old Cody E. Stevens of Barbourville. Whitley County Coroner Andy Croley said the...

A Williamsburg man’s recent alleged escape attempt from a holding cell at the Whitley County Detention Center didn’t result in freedom, just more criminal charges. Jordan Lee Ramey, 21, of Wolf Creek, and other inmates were placed in a judicial center holding cell on...

Hundreds of people will be pouring into Williamsburg for the 55th Annual Old Fashion Brush Arbor Meeting, which is a tent style revival that served as the inspiration for Old Fashioned Trading Days. The five-day event starts on the Wednesday before Labor Day and runs through...

A Williamsburg man who had successfully eluded law enforcement multiple times was taken into custody Friday morning. Whitley County Constable Dorman Patrick, Jr. along with Williamsburg Police, Kentucky State Police and Whitley County Jailer Brian Lawson arrested 37-year-old...