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After only a short year and a half, Pikeville Police Officer Alexis Stambaugh became the first female officer in the department’s history to be named “Officer of the Year.”

The Storm Team 11 Forecast calls for cold air moving into the region this evening causing lingering rain showers to change over to snow, especially in the mountains. Rain and snow showers continue through the overnight with a low of 30 degrees.  Wind Advisories is in effect for the Western North Carolina Mountains. These areas could […]

Majority of superintendents say they would only be able to raise teacher salaries a modest amount, 2% or less, under the current House GOP budget bill.

The annual blood drive competition is happening Jan. 22-26.

A Letcher County man was indicted by a Pike County grand jury on Jan. 10 on a felony charge of theft in connection with the theft of an excavator from

I GREW UP IN APPALACHIA, just outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Tennessee.

A parent’s worst nightmare came to life Friday afternoon when a coal truck and a school bus collided sending the school bus off the road and into a creek. T ...

The Kentucky State Police responded to a two-vehicle crash involving a school bus on KY-932 on Friday.

The Kentucky State Police responded to a two-vehicle crash involving a school bus on KY-932 on Friday.

20 children and a bus driver were hospitalized Friday following a Letcher County, Kentucky, collision between their school bus and a coal truck.