Updated: 1:11 PM Members asked to conserve power usage on: Friday Morning from 6 am to 10 am

Posted: 10:24 AM Members asked to conserve power usage on: Friday Morning from 6 am to 10 am

Updated: 8:39 AM Big Sandy RECC is making preparations for restoration of possible power outages caused by strong winds and severe thunderstorms that are expected in our area.

Updated: 5:02 PM It was a special day for the leaders at The Coal Miners' Museum in Van Lear. Every month Eastern Kentucky Pride recognizes an outstanding volunteer.

Updated: 5:43 PM Police in Johnson County are looking for a man accused of scamming several stores out of hundreds of dollars.

Posted: 7:27 PM Members asked to conserve power usage on: Tuesday and Wednesday Mornings from 6 am to 10 am

Updated: 11:02 PM Employees at a Paintsville business say they are thankful to be alive after being robbed at gunpoint Friday night. A store employee explains it is something you hope never happens as a clerk, "This guy comes in the door with the mask over his face and a toboggan and a big jacket. and got about halfway through here and started pulling the gun out of his pants."

Updated: 12:16 PM Southeast Kentucky Economic Development Corporation (SKED) will offer Prestonsburg area residents the opportunity to learn more about small business ownership this spring through its Entrepreneurial SMARTS course.

Posted: 8:07 AM The Center for Rural Development is now accepting applications from rising high school juniors in Johnson County for the 2013 summer sessions of the Rogers Scholars youth leadership program.

Updated: 4:15 PM Big Sandy Community Action Agency offices were filled with folks needing heating assistance on Monday. Officials began accepting applications for the crisis portion of LIHEAP (Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program) at 8 a.m. Monday morning. The crisis program helps folks who have a disconnect notice or are running low on bulk fuel to heat their homes.

Posted: 4:01 PM Sheriff's deputies say they found 66 pot plants, firearms, processed marijuana and indoor growing equipment at a home in Wittensville.

Updated: 3:48 PM Traffic delays begin January 7 on KY 321 in Johnson County as part of preliminary work to correct a long-time rockfall problem along this stretch of highway.

Updated: 4:37 PM As the drug epidemic tears through Eastern Kentucky it is leaving many children left to grow up without their parents. Many grandparents are now raising their grandchildren as Tom Salyer with Johnson County Schools explains, “In Johnson County we see what is on the national and state trend that a lot of grandparents are raising their grandchildren.”

Updated: 9:25 AM Members asked to conserve power usage on: Thursday and Friday Morning from 6 am to 10 am

Posted: 5:00 PM Officials with EQT Corporation are awarding a $50,000 grant to the University of Kentucky College of Education to help propel new innovations in eastern Kentucky education.

Updated: 11:04 AM Across many parts of Kentucky, crews are out plowing and salting roadways.

Posted: 8:58 AM Members asked to conserve power usage on: Friday Morning from 6 am to 10 am

Updated: 4:16 PM Members asked to conserve power usage on Friday Morning from 6 am to 10 am

Updated: 6:21 PM LIHEAP has finished up the first phase of their heating assistance program where anyone can apply and they are now preparing for the next phase. The first phase of the low income home energy assistance program or LIHEAP served more than 8500 house holds. The next phase, the crisis program, is a little bit different.

Updated: 4:32 AM Hundreds of people waited in line for Premier Motor's annual Christmas for the Kids in Paintsville.

Updated: 4:03 PM Officers served warrants on nearly two dozen people in Johnson County for selling drugs.

Posted: 5:25 PM The search is over for a man wanted for allegedly making meth.

Updated: 6:39 PM A church in Johnson County opened its doors Sunday for the first time since it was destroyed in the March tornado.

Updated: 10:38 AM The scholarship is awarded to students who are customers or whose parent or guardian is a customer of Appalachian Wireless.

Posted: 2:22 PM Big Sandy RECC asks members to conserve power on Wednesday and Thursday morning form 6 am to 10 am.