Hancock County News

In Hancock County, officials broke ground Monday on a new green courthouse in downtown Hawesville.

Staff/Wire Report Whitley was one of five counties that averaged more than four controlled substance prescriptions dispensed per resident, according to a new report released by the state's Justice and Public Safety Cabinet.

Abuse of prescription drugs is on the rise in Kentucky. The rate of prescription drugs dispensed for controlled substances increased in 118 counties between 2005 and 2007.

In drilling an 8-foot-deep well in Hancock County to test burying carbon dioxide, scientists have brought up a billion year old basement rock photographed on Monday August 24, 2009 in Lexington, Ky.

A hydroelectric plant being built along the Ohio River in western Kentucky will eventually provide power for communities in a half-dozen states.

A hydroelectric plant being built along the Ohio River in western Kentucky will eventually provide power for communities in a half-dozen states.

A hydroelectric plant being built along the Ohio River in western Kentucky will eventually provide power for communities in a half-dozen states.

A hydroelectric plant being built along the Ohio River in western Kentucky will eventually provide power for communities in a half-dozen states.

The county's new economic development leader Mike Baker hopes to turn signs like these full.

Hancock County resident Joseph Beard, age 47, received a 10-year prison sentence on a variety of drug related charges.

A lawyer representing the estate of a Western Kentucky University student killed six years ago says a hearing officer has awarded her estate $200,000. Bowling Green attorney Ben Crocker says that amount is the maximum allowed by the Board of Claims, where the case went after the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that neither the university nor ...

Scientists are drilling a well on a western Kentucky cow pasture as part of a project to test how to store emissions from coal-burning power plants.

Beside a cow pasture in Hancock County, scientists are drilling through 8,000 feet of rock, hoping to learn how to lock away forever an invisible gas that threatens Earth's climate and our way of life.