Coal Companies Belonging To WV Gov. Justice’s Family Agree To Pay Overdue...
Coal companies controlled by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice have agreed to a settlement covering millions of dollars in overdue property taxes in four eastern Kentucky counties: Harlan,...
View ArticleJailhouse Programs Provide 'Helping Hand' to Those Wanting to Avoid...
Prison overcrowding has increasingly become part of the national conversation. Meanwhile, states are trying to do more to keep ex-offenders from going back to jail after completing their sentences....
View ArticleVoices From the Barren County Jail: Part Two of Our Series on Reentry Into...
When someone goes to jail, it's often difficult for them to move on from the criminal justice system. At the Barren County Detention Center, a group is promising to help inmates break the cycle and...
View ArticleHow to Overcome Your Past and Run Your Own Business: Part Four of Our Series...
Around 40% of Kentucky state inmates released in 2016 went back to jail within a couple years of getting out. Most of those individuals went back to jail for breaking their terms of release rather than...
View ArticleDemocratic Nominee for Agriculture Commissioner Sets Out to Protect Family Farms
On November 5, Kentuckians will head to the polls to elect constitutional positions like Governor, Attorney General and Secretary of State. Eigth-generation Kentucky farmer Robert Conway is running for...
View ArticleIncumbent Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Focuses on Economic Growth
Kentucky's Republican Commissioner of Agriculture has largely flown under the radar while addressing many pressing issues facing the state's farms. He's banking his track record will carry him to a...
View ArticleFormer Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton Defends Her Time in Office
Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton managed to stay relatively out of the spotlight until the final year of Republican Governor Matt Bevin's administration. In January, eyes turned toward her once Bevin...
View ArticleCommunity Voices Concerns with Bowling Green City Leaders
Around 100-150 south central Kentucky residents met in Bowling Green's Circus Square Park Sunday evening to voice their concerns about discrimination, policing and city government. Meanwhile, a handful...
View ArticleNew Appalachian Journalism Outlets Tackle Stereotypes, Media Economy
It wasn’t too long ago that Michael Farmer, a pastor in Charleston, West Virginia, received an email asking him a question that was already on his mind: “As a Black Southern Baptist pastor in West...
View ArticleAcross The Ohio Valley, States Report Record Number Of COVID-19 Cases
In the last weeks of October, parts of the Ohio Valley saw coronavirus records broken almost every day. In the Ohio Valley, Kentucky and Ohio set new records for hospitalizations due to COVID-19, and...
View ArticleThe Missing Voters: The Ohio Valley Has Some Of The Nation’s Lowest Voter...
This fall, Lexington, Kentucky, activist and artist Devine Carama launched a different kind of road trip across his home state. He visited a dozen cities and towns, from Pikeville, in the state’s...
View ArticleBeshear Urges COVID Safety As He Awaits Clear Data After Holidays
In his Tuesday briefing on the coronavirus pandemic, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear reiterated the importance of following COVID-19 protocols to stop the spread of the virus. “In L.A. County, they have so...
View ArticleOhio Valley States Will Reap $45M From Opioid Suit Settlement With McKinsey...
Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia will collectively receive roughly $45 million as part of settlement agreements announced Thursday resolving lawsuits against consulting giant McKinsey & Company...
View ArticleBiden Approves Major Disaster Declaration For Kentucky
President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration for Kentucky following February winter storms that left more than 150,000 thousand Kentuckians without power at one point and killed four...
View ArticleOhio Valley Communities Wait For Guidance On COVID Funds
The American Rescue Plan Act signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11 provided the nation with a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus, including funds to state and local governments, but local...
View ArticleVaccinate U? Contrary To Health Advice, Most Area Schools Won’t Mandate COVID...
Roughly a million students attend college around the Ohio Valley, and the student-age population has an especially high rate of coronavirus infection. That’s why some public health advocates say...
View Article'Eat My Dust': Soap Box Derby Racing Returns To Bowling Green
It's nearly race day in Warren County, as dozens of people ages 8-20 in and around southern Kentucky will gather Saturday at Phil Moore Park in Alvaton. They're coming to town for what organizers...
View ArticleKentucky Coalition Urging Beshear to Commit to Federal Jobless Benefits
In a letter sent to Governor Andy Beshear, seventeen Kentucky organizations are urging him to commit to keeping federal unemployment benefits that are set to expire in September. Beshear has indicated...
View ArticleNew Report Shows National Childhood Obesity Rates Highest in Kentucky
For the second year in a row, Kentucky has the highest rate of childhood obesity among kids ages 10-to-17 at 23.8%. That’s according to a new report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released this...
View ArticleInconsistent laws and tracking systems make it difficult to count intimate...
Teresa Wilson’s first apartment of her own was a big deal. “She felt like she was gaining more independence. And I think the more she tried to gain that independence, I think the violence grew worse in...
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