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Longtime Jenkins Schools Board of Education member Eileen Sanders has retired after 16 years on the Board. The...

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Charges have been dismissed against a Whitesburg man accused of assaulting another man in August. Aqccording to the Mountain Eagle, a judge ruled Mond...

The Soviet Union leader’s was a life of dutiful progress through a hermetic, sometimes brutal world. How did he manage to save a piece of himself and become the figure he was?

The Madison County Record of Huntsville and its publisher, Ellen Kreth, have won the 2022 Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, integrity and tenacity in rural journalism from the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky.

A deluged eastern Kentucky is left to ponder what it means to rebuild entire communities when "1,000-year floods" arent 1,000-year floods anymore.

A deluged eastern Kentucky is left to ponder what it means to rebuild entire communities when "1,000-year floods" arent 1,000-year floods anymore.

Mountain Eagle has covered Letcher County, Kentucky for more than a century. When historic flooding hit about two weeks ago, the paper’s small staff did what it’s always done: tell the stories of the region and the people who live there. WFPL’s Stephanie Wolf stopped by its office in Whitesburg. Also, in this show, reporter Randy Yohe talks with an expert about the current and future state of construction in West Virginia.

The Mountain Eagle publisher and editor Ben Gish says it's been “exhausting and emotional” reporting on the devastating eastern Ky. floods.

The convenience retailer turned its distribution center into a loading zone for relief deliveries.