University Of Pikeville Vaccines With the Omicron variant in full swing and students returning to campus, the University of Pikeville has partnered with Wild Health and the Pike County Health Department to offer free COVID-19 testing for students, staff, and community members.This event will continue from today until Thursday, January 13, from 1:00 p.m.…
Pike County Storms On New Years Day, severe flooding rocked many parts of the Big Sandy region including communities in Pike County. The floods resulted in rescue squads, such as the Pikeville Fire Department’s swift water rescue team, being deployed to help the cause.“We ended up doing a couple of shallow water crossings,” said…
COVID-19 Pill Health experts are calling a new pill that can help treat COVID-19 a potential game-changer, but getting your hands on one is a bit tricky. Health officials in Kentucky say supplies of the Merck and Pfizer COVID-19 pills are going to be very limited. “If it works as well as they say…
State Of The Commonwealth Address Governor Andy Beshear gave his State of the Commonwealth address Wednesday night before a joint session of the Kentucky House and Senate.Beshear called in lawmakers to focus on bettering Kentucky, addressing addiction and continue economic momentum, and avoid anger or division.The governor started his address by saying while we…
EMT Training Harlan County Judge Executive, Dan Mosley, recently addressed the emergency personnel shortage in Harlan County. “Here with response times we’ve seen difficulty sometimes with response times because of shortage of personnel,” Mosley said.Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College is offering a new EMT training program beginning on January 13 in hopes of…
Pike County Road Repairs District 12 of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is facing many challenges with road repair after major flooding on New Year’s Day. Multiple communities in Pike County were hit hard such as Coal Run Village, Sidney, Belfry, John’s Creek, and Pond Creek. KYTC was also in the process of finishing up…
Soldiers To Kosovo The Kentucky National Guard is sending about 200 soldiers to Kosovo for a year to provide security.The 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry is deploying this week.Guard officials said units from Barbourville, Middlesboro and Ravenna will make up Task Force Mountain Warrior to provide security operations throughout the region.The units will be led…
Snow Preparation Snow is predicted to make its way into Eastern Kentucky today. With the forecast is calling for several inches of snow, power crews said they are gassing up their trucks now so they can respond if power outages happen.”In addition if there’s more outages than we can handle with our in-house or…
Breathitt County Road Repair KY-30 in Eastern Breathitt County will be reduced to one lane due to a major break in the pavement.The road will be reduced at mile point 30.83.The break is near the Rousseau community, approximately three miles west of KY 542. Signs and barricades are in place, but because of the…
KSP Trooper If you’d like to become a Kentucky State Police trooper there’s more time to apply to attend the next academy cadet class.Governor Andy Beshear and the state police announced Tuesday that the deadline has been extended to Jan. 31.Recruitment branch commander Sgt. Michael Murriell said recent events including last month’s deadly tornadoes…