JEFFERSONTOWN More children live in deep poverty in three of five Northeast Kentucky counties than five years ago, according to Kentucky Youth Advocates, a non-profit child advocacy organization. In all of the FIVCO counties — Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence and Elliott — there are more children whose households are teetering on the brink of poverty, according…
PULASKI COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT/WKYT) – The sudden loss of four Somerset residents left the Kentucky town in shock. A plane crash in Barren County on Sunday claimed the lives of attorney Scott Foster, his son, 15-year-old Noah Foster, Dr. Kyle Stewart, a local dentist, and Somerset Police chaplain Doug Whitaker. All four were well-known in the Somerset community.…
An Indiana company plans to spend between $70 and $100 million building a fiber-optic network that would make ultra high-speed gigabit internet service available throughout Lexington’s urban service area, city officials said Monday. “This will make Lexington the largest gigabit city in the country,” said Lexington Mayor Jim Gray. Gigabit speed is equivalent to transferring…
PIKEVILLE — Silicon Valley, meet Appalachian Mountains. In Eastern Kentucky, in the heart of rural Appalachia and amid the coal-dust remnants of the Industrial Revolution, a nascent digital revolution is taking shape. After the rapid decline of the coal industry, Eastern Kentuckians are attempting to diversify the region’s economy, but limited access to broadband internet…
The Kentucky State Police is struggling to keep pace with demands of the job due to a manpower shortage, an aging and high-mileage fleet, a lack of long guns and failing radio equipment.Statewide, the agency has about 840 sworn officers, only about 500 of whom are road troopers. The agency is considered fully staffed at…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WYMT/WKYT) – Time for a special session to hash out the state’s pension crisis is winding down for Kentucky lawmakers. Republican representatives across the commonwealth are trying to regroup as a turbulent week of scandal comes to an end. One week ago, State Representative Jeff Hoover stepped down from the role as Speaker of…
Originally published on November 8, 2017 8:31 pm The U.S. Justice Department has informed AT&T that it will block the telecommunications giant’s planned $85 billion takeover of Time Warner unless it sells off CNN — a network frequently targeted for derision by President Trump. The move has therefore triggered concerns within CNN that the administration…
After about three weeks on strike, a group of migrant workers employed at a tobacco farm in Gerrard County, Kentucky have reached a settlement with the farm’s owner. The workers came from Mexico under the H2A visa program, which allows foreign nationals to enter the U.S. for temporary or seasonal farm work. The Department of Labor program also sets a…
Eastern Kentucky University officials plan to freeze tuition next year, President Michael Benson announced in a campus-wide email Wednesday in an apparent attempt to stimulate enrollment. In the email, Benson noted that EKU serves some of the poorest counties in the country, and nearly half its students are first-generation, low-income or both. “We are committed…
It wasn’t that long ago when a beer lover, if she wanted to get a good, local craft beer, would have to go to the brewery where it was made and sold. The locally brewed beers weren’t available in your local Kroger or Walmart. But now, in just the span of a few years, that…