Breathitt County News

Breathitt County schools will be closed for the rest of the week after a rise in the number of students who were absent from school Monday due to flu-like symptoms.

He is perhaps the most appropriately named young man in Anderson County. Not only did Hunter Wilson, 12, bag a beautiful 9-point buck during the recent youth hunt season here, the seventh-grader also added a trophy elk to his resume during a youth elk hunt last month in Breathitt County.

Donna Combs has proven ita s never too late to go back to finish your college degree.

10. Name the lady who has the distinction of being the mother, sister, daughter, and cousin of Kentucky governors.

A soldier in North Carolina, originally from Breathitt County, is in jail, facing charges in an armed robbery that happened in July.

The children of 4-H Camp founder Elmer Boggs celebrated a unique "Father's Day" Friday evening as county officials dedicated the campground loop in his honor.

Breathitt County High School student, Jamie Rice, Knott Central High student Brady Risner and Perry Central High student, Brooklyn Carroll were among twenty-one students throughout the state selected by Kentucky State Police to participate in the 'Drive to Stay Alive' program.

A former bookkeeper for the Breathitt County sheriff's office, who already has been charged with theft, falsified records so she could cash checks made out to vendors and pocket the money, according to an audit of the Breathitt County sheriff's office.

A four year old Breathitt County boy is hit by a car in his driveway, and now police are asking for your help to find the woman that drove away.

He was playing outside his house, in his driveway, when a 4 year old was hit by an SUV.

Eight undergraduate college students from around the nation, including three from Kentucky, joined three area teachers in a 10-week environmental research camp that focused on "Carbon Storage and Headwater Health in the Appalachian Headwaters." The camp, co-hosted by Eastern Kentucky Environmental Research Institute at Eastern Kentucky University ...

Hundreds of pot plants are destroyed in Breathitt County as a marijuana eradication team makes their way through the Big Caney community.

State police are investigating a shooting in Breathitt County where one man has died and another man is at UK Hospital.

State police are investigating a shooting in Breathitt County where one man has died and another man is at UK Hospital.

Kentucky State Police are investigating a shooting that occurred on Highway 30 East in Jackson.

State police are investigating a shooting in Breathitt County where one man has died and another man is at UK Hospital.

A Breathitt County man will try to climb the earth's tallest mountain next year.

The city of Edmonton recently received word that it has been awarded a $9,500 federal Land and Water Conservation Grant to fund a new playground at Edmonton Memorial Park.

A Breathitt County community thought their school was lost forever after the mother's day weekend flood, but in less than three months, Rousseau Elementary was rebuilt and opened on time.

This year's hopes and expectations are at an all time high at Breathitt County High School.