We’ve all heard of a canary in a coal mine, but what about a Dutch Shepherd?  Meet Ginny: the newest member of coal producer Alpha Natural Resources’ search-and-rescue team, trained to perform searches in both underground and surface More...

When songwriter Herbert Paul Gilley died at age 27 in a July 1957 drowning accident in nearby Morgan County, his parents were so stricken with grief they burned his personal belongings, author Chet Flippo wrote in his 1981 biography of Hank Williams More...

Kentucky’s kindergarten teachers should be insulted and taxpayers should be angry.  More...

What might a reasonable, constructive presidential campaign look like? More...

Does I’ll Have Another belong in the Triple Crown club with horses such as Affirmed and Citation? With an eye on the weather forecast, we will see.   More...

This is the time of year a lot of people head to the lakes to go camping, boating, swimming and fishing — all great ways to spend time together with family and friends. More...

  — Three players from local high schools were named to the All-14th Region Softball Tournament team last week. More...

— Shane and Jamie Baker of Thornton watched their eight-year-old son, Jacob, and 12-year-old daughter, Trinity, fish the “Bill Doug Hole” in North Fork of the Kentucky River recentl More...

Hello everyone. Hope you are all doing well and enjoying the weather.  We’ve had all kinds this week. We really needed the rain and after all the hot weather the cool weather felt real good, so we can’t complain. More...

— Pictured above is Hunter Adams, 13, who caught this 11 pound, 6 ounce largemouth bass that was 24 ¼ inches long. More...

Gloria ‘Mousie’ Collier Waddell Slone, 63, of McRoberts, died June 1 at Pikeville Medical Center.  A daughter of the late Monroe and Cletis Kiser Potter Collier, she was the widow of Edgel Slone.  She was sister of the late Luth More...

Margaret J. Hughes, 85, died May 29 at Indian Path Hospital in Kingsport, Tenn.  The widow of William W. Hughes, she had resided in Heritage Hall for several years.  More...

Geneva Nezelene Day, 82, died May 29 at her home in Seymour, Ind.  Born in Letcher County to the late Roy and Luanna Fields Maggard, she was the mother of the late Jennifer Day Froedge and Larry Day.  She was a sister of the late Charlotte More...