Eastern News

Eastern Kentucky University's efforts at making a more energy efficient campus are about 75 percent complete, school officials say, with a goal of being done by the spring of 2010.

A Cincinnati doctor plans to plead guilty in one of the largest documented schemes to smuggle prescription drugs into Eastern Kentucky from other states.

Gov. Steve Beshear today announced a collaborative effort between the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Governor's Office of Agricultural Policy to fund a project placing entrepreneurial instruction in elementary and middle schools in 18 designated counties.

From a strip-mined bluff at the edge of this town of 4,800, nestled in eastern Kentucky's mountains, you can see one of the most concentrated and diverse sets of medical facilities in rural America: a general hospital, a psychiatric hospital, a university-based rural health care center and clinics for primary care, cancer, urology, cardiology, ...

Some Eastern Kentucky drama students were named to the Kentucky Theatre Association's All-State Cast this weekend.

Kentucky State Police in eastern Kentucky say two people have been found slain in Carter County.

A small bridge in eastern Kentucky now bears the name of a Fort Campbell soldier killed last year in Afghanistan.

Smoke is still rising from a fire that destroyed an apartment building and an eastern Kentucky church.

An Eastern Kentucky teacher has been arrested at school on intoxication and drug charges.

A fire breaks out in one Eastern Kentucky community leaving several homeless and thousands without power and phone service.

Here in the mountains, many of us are taking some time today to honor those who have served our country.

The 5th Congressional District, which includes Floyd County, has been named the most unhappy district in the nation, based on the results of a recent survey.

A forest ranger said dozens of blazes are burning across eastern Kentucky and many appear to be intentionally set.

Kentucky transportation cabinet officials say the permits, from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, are difficult to get now.

Some writers are masters of self-promotion, thoroughly convinced and convincing in their roles as artist-shamans. Others seem driven to self-effacement, shrugging off as quickly as possible the writer's prophetic mantel.

Lagging undergraduate enrollment and a huge stock market-driven hit to the school's endowment have taken a toll on Pikeville College's finances, requiring cost-cutting and a layoff last fall.

An alleged bank robber was nabbed after being spotted at Wal-Mart, but not before he used some of the cash to buy himself an SUV, Richmond police said.

Requiring the coal industry to pay more of its own freight is a move in the right direction by Gov.

Some farmers in Eastern Kentucky say their crops are being consumed in the fields by huge flocks of birds.

A federal judge in Lexington has sentenced a Las Vegas man to more than 20 years in prison for sexually exploiting a 12-year-old girl.