Mason County News

" The Sierra Club, a nonprofit, conservation organization with some 4,000 members in Kentucky, has sued East Kentucky Power Cooperative, alleging a new boiler at its Spurlock coal-fired power plant in Mason County was constructed without proper permits.

A new 278-megawatt coal-burning power plant is up and running at the H.L. Spurlock Station near Maysville in Mason County, but if all goes as planned, the new unit will produce electricity by burning more than just coal.

George Rogers Clark and defending champion Mason County will be in the opposite bracket when the 10th Region Tournament begins Saturday at the Bank of Kentucky Center at Northern Kentucky University.

A plea agreement has been reached in a Mason County case where a father was accused in the death of his 6-week-old daughter.

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, University Hospital and the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati will welcome Carl Westmoreland as keynote speaker for their co-sponsored annual Dr.

Retired businessman and civic leader Thomas R. Wallingford, 81, of Maysville died early Tuesday morning.

A man is was hospitalized in critical condition and another was arrested following a shooting on Owl Hollow Road in Mason County Sunday, according to Sheriff Patrick Boggs.