Hyden News

Kentucky State Police said Veronica Hubbard of the Stinett community in Leslie County died Sunday afternoon after she was hit with a blast from a 12-guage shotgun.

A 13-year-old Leslie County boy accidentally shot and killed his mother with a 12-gauge shotgun early Sunday afternoon, according to Kentucky State Police.

Laurel Heights Home for the Elderly has had a special place in our hearts since the 1970s.

The annual Mountain Harvest Food Drive is still going on around the area. Food boxes at several of the different donation sites are filling up quickly, and LKLP crews were out today picking up the items.

Work crews have cleared a one-lane path through a massive rock slide across Ky. 2009 in southern Leslie County, the Transportation Cabinet announced Wednesday morning.

A portion of Highway 2009 in Hoskinston, Leslie County is still closed after a massive rockslide came down on the road Saturday.

The Osborne Brothers were one of the most popular and innovative bluegrass groups of the post-war era, taking the music into new directions and gaining a large audience.

Family and friends remember a high school student killed in an ATV accident. Fifteen-year-old Austin Carmack died last night in the Cutshin Community of Leslie County.

Friends and family are mourning the passing of 91-year-old L.B. Stacy, who died Friday.

Heavy rain that caused flooding in areas of eastern Kentucky washed out part of a highway causing school officials to cancel classes in Leslie County for the rest of the week.

Schools in an eastern Kentucky county are closed this week after rain damages roads.

Heavy rain has produced small-stream flooding in eastern Kentucky. The National Weather Service office in Jackson issued flood warnings Wednesday morning for Leslie County and Pike County in southeastern Kentucky, until 11 a.m. The weather service said Kentucky State Police reported water over sections of U.S. 421 south of Hyden and several ...

We have some breaking news out of Leslie County. There has been an accident involving a tanker truck on the Hal Rogers Parkway near the Hyden Spur.

Coal's impact on region positive A study released by Mountain Association for Community Economic Development claimed that the coal industry costs Kentucky more money than it brings in.

Firefighters spent much of the early morning hours on Monday fighting a fire in Garden City, and now police have one person in custody, charged with setting that fire.

Kentucky State Police Post 09 would like to say welcome to five new Kentucky State Troopers, who graduated the Kentucky State Police Academy on Friday June 12, 2009.

Traffic on KY 80 near Warren Grove Road was reduced to one lane when a pick-up truck towing a trailer, and the trailer overturned Friday.

Jonathan Golding, son of Diane and Tom Golding of Saxtons River, Vt., graduated on May 23, 2009, with high distinction from the Kentucky School of Bluegrass and Traditional Music in Hyden, Ky., an affiliate of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.

The Osborne Brothers were one of the most popular and innovative bluegrass groups of the post-war era, taking the music into new directions and gaining a large audience.