Floyd County News

Changes in how Kentucky tracks narcotics prescriptions have made it harder for drug dealers and addicts to amass large amounts of pills such as OxyContin from sources inside the state, so they are traveling far ...

Two Kentucky men were indicted this week on 104 charges stemming from the operation of an automobile "chop shop" in Pike and Floyd counties.

It is late May and still considered springtime, but it feels like the most oppressively hot summer day as afternoon begins in Prestonsburg, Ky.

Kentucky Highway 1428 in Floyd County will be closed Monday between the Goble Roberts Bridge and the intersection at Lancer to replace a cross drain.

It is late May and still considered springtime, but it feels like the most oppressively hot summer day as afternoon begins in Prestonsburg, Ky.

State police in eastern Kentucky are searching for the person who they say shot a man in the back Monday.

An Eastern Kentucky man says he was shot in the back while walking along a Floyd County road Monday afternoon, Kentucky State Police said.

George Mouser, a long-time Floyd County government observer who regularly attends and often speaks at meetings of local boards and agencies, is running as an independent for a board of commissioners seat.

Highlands Regional Medical Center announced that several local leaders have stepped up to guide the Foundation's Hope for Life Campaign, which seeks to raise $1.75 million in support of a new Emergency ...

ALEX ALLEN, 10, of Wayland, received an All County Chorus award and a most improved reading award for the sixth-grade level, rising from a 4.2 average to a 6.6 level.

The Dove House in Prestonsburg has helped those less fortunate for the past five years, but money troubles may force the organization dedicated to helping others to sell their building.

The chance of building a new Floyd County Youth Shelter remained in doubt last week after county leaders got no assurance from an accountant of having enough money in the budget for the project.

Schools in four counties in Eastern Kentucky are getting some much needed renovations this summer.

WASHINGTON -- Sixteen mines -- including seven coal mines and a limestone operation in Kentucky -- have been warned by federal safety regulators that they may have a pattern of numerous serious safety ...

"I have explained to Avery - in the years to come there'll be more 'good guys,' as we call them, driving around because of the sacrifice daddy made," said Frank Denzinger's wife Tara.

In Floyd County, police arrested three people they believe are linked to a theft ring involving catalytic converters.

The widow of a Floyd County police officer and the community honored his memory Tuesday night.

An eastern Kentucky couple have filed suit against officials at a middle school over their 13-year-old son's suicide.

A grand jury will hear the case against two men charged in connection with the murder of a Floyd County man.

After a couple of weeks of being relatively healthy, something caught up with me a few days back and left me whining on the sidelines.