The City of Jenkins did not close American Legion Post 66, but it did stop the post from operating an unlicensed bar after state investigators documented alcohol sales there, according to city ...

Jayda Banks wears her crown and sash as the new Miss Mountain Heritage as she rides in the annual Mountain Heritage Festival Parade through downtown Whitesburg. The 17-year-old junior at Letcher ...

A memorial service for Crystal Dawn Maggard, 49, was held September 16 at the Highway Holiness Church at Camp Branch. She died September 11 at her residence at Neon. Surviving are her parents, Castle ...

Dear son: When you talked me into signing my home over to you, I had no idea of the cruel plan you and your wife had for me. I was blindsided. She gave you an ultimatum — your wife or your mother.

Hello everyone! Are the trees starting to change colors in your neck of the woods yet? There’s just a tinge of the touch of fall in this area. Now I did walk to the back of our house and caught the ...

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A former Letcher County deputy sheriff who pleaded guilty to raping a female prisoner who was on home incarceration will spend six months in the Letcher County Jail, where he formerly worked as a ...

Hello, everyone. I hope all are safe from the storms that have happened over the past week or so. Mike and I were out of town and missed the storms. My brother checked on our house and cat for us, and ...

A Jenkins man who appealed his guilty plea to 185 sex offenses involving a girl under age 16 has pleaded guilty again to the same charges. He received the same sentence the second time. Gary Dean ...

Local parents of children with autism may soon have a life-changing resource closer to home. Plans for an Autism Center in Letcher County took a major step forward when the Whitesburg City Council ...

A motion picture now available on Netflix is based on the true story of Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent Mark Putnam, who investigated a nationwide theft ring in Letcher County from the Pikeville ...

Responding to concerns raised by residents over a proposed natural gas-fired power plant intended to attract artificial intelligence data centers, the Letcher Fiscal Court voted unanimously Monday to ...