Updated: 4:53 PM A steady stream of last minute shoppers filled Court Street in Prestonsburg on Monday. Shoppers were either out to finish up their Christmas shopping or they were just getting started like Matt Tackett, "I've got my Christmas dinner here in a few hours so I've got some work to do."
Updated: 9:31 PM Officials with the transportation department in the big sandy region have been hard at work since the winter weather rolled in late last night.
Updated: 4:54 PM Johnson County School officials and Paintsville Independent School officials came together with local law enforcement Wednesday morning to discuss school safety after last week's tragedy in Connecticut.
Updated: 10:10 PM Just days after the mass school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, a Floyd county teenager is behind bars for threatening a similar act.
Updated: 6:47 PM The stock room at shoe sensation in Prestonsburg is overflowing with boxes full of shoes, but these shoes will not be going out on the shelves.
Updated: 10:38 AM The scholarship is awarded to students who are customers or whose parent or guardian is a customer of Appalachian Wireless.
Updated: 1:34 AM Hundreds of people in eastern Kentucky were able to take home much-needed supplies and Christmas gifts for their loved ones, free of charge.
Posted: 2:22 PM Big Sandy RECC asks members to conserve power on Wednesday and Thursday morning form 6 am to 10 am.
Posted: 5:55 PM A group affiliated with Highlands Regional Medical Center is applying to acquire QuestCare Ambulance Service.
Posted: 5:09 PM One man is behind bars for allegedly trying to rob a Floyd County pharmacy on Thursday.
Updated: 6:13 PM Officials say a man entered the Wheelwright Family Drug Thursday afternoon demanding money, but employees say he left without taking anything.
Posted: 2:19 PM The Board of Trustees for the Appalachian Regional Healthcare system announced the forthcoming retirement of ARH President and Chief Executive Officer Jerry W. Haynes, and named Haynes’ successor.
Posted: 12:20 PM Senator McConnell paid “tribute to an innovative, beneficial, and truly essential organization that serves fellow Kentuckians diagnosed with autism”.
Posted: 4:40 PM The Strand Twin Theater is closing next month.
Posted: 8:55 AM Highlands Center for Autism was recently honored in the Congressional Record by Senator Mitch McConnell.
Posted: 4:26 PM A Floyd County woman and her granddaughter are dead following a car accident this weekend.
Updated: 10:16 AM The Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission will meet on Friday, December 7, 2012 at 10 a.m. EST at the office of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Office of Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, 111 Corporate Drive, Frankfort, Kentucky. The meeting is open to the public, and all are welcome to attend.
Updated: 8:25 AM Two people are killed and three others are injured in a crash in Floyd County.
Posted: 4:31 PM The husband of Martin Mayor Thomasine Robinson is behind bars.
Updated: 9:27 PM State police are searching for a suspect in a Pike County burglary.
Posted: 8:20 AM Members asked to conserve power usage on: Wednesday and Thursday Morning from 6 am to 10 am
Updated: 12:35 PM Members asked to conserve power usage on the mornings of Wednesday November 28 and Thursday November 29 from 6 am to 10 am
Posted: 5:32 PM HI HIAT, Ky. (WYMT) - Many Eastern Kentucky coal miners will be without a job this holiday season, but a group in Floyd County made this Christmas a little easier for their families Saturday.
Updated: 5:40 AM A number of stores in Prestonsburg opened their doors Thursday night and will stay open through Black Friday.
Updated: 8:26 PM Big retailers are not the only ones with Black Friday deals here in the mountains. Several small businesses in Prestonsburg will be opening their doors early for this year's post-Thanksgiving sale.
