Yerkes News

From Alpha to Knob Lick to Krypton to Yerkes, the U.S. Postal Service is considering closing about 130 of its offices across Kentucky.

Construction of a guardrail is underway on a narrow, eroding road in Perry County.

It's been an issue for years. This small section of highway 451 in the Perry County community of Yerkes is crumbling away into the river.

In mid-January last winter, an accident on this stretch of highway 451 in the Yerkes community of Perry County claimed the life of one man.

In 1961 researcher Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts noticed a molecule in this jellyfish that glowed bright green under ultraviolet light .