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: 8:51 AM Part of Route 40 in Martin County was closed on Tuesday to begin repairing a break in the road. The traffic on Route 40 was replaced by road crews and heavy machinery. Superintendent Jerry Todd explains the project, "We are drilling holes with a rotary drill so we can put railroad steel in to hold the road, then we will crib it with cribbing and then we will backfill it and try to build the road back."

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

Posted: 4:58 PM Beginning Tuesday, work is expected to start on a section of Kentucky 40 in Martin County.

Posted: 4:49 PM A temporary traffic signal has been put up on Route 40 in Martin County near the Johnson County line. Traffic has been reduced to one lane because of a break in the road that happened early Thursday morning.

Posted: 5:28 AM Officials tell us approximately 100 feet of Route 40 between mile marker zero and one have fallen away and the roadway has been reduced to one lane.

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: 8:00 AM The Center for Rural Development is now accepting applications from rising high school juniors in Martin County for the 2013 summer sessions of the Rogers Scholars youth leadership program.

Posted: 3:34 PM Officials tell us that due to sickness, county wide attendance has been low this week.

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.

Posted: 3:20 PM Prosecutors argued Billie Evans was driving under the influence when he lost control of his car along Route 292 in Warfield and hit a tree.

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

Updated: 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: 10:21 PM An early morning shift at the Starlight Arcade just outside Inez led to a scary few minutes for four employees.

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: 5:43 PM Two former Martin County deputy clerks, indicted by a grand jury for allegedly abusing the public's trust, plead not guilty.

Updated: 6:47 PM They once served Martin County but now they are charged with abusing the public's trust. It has been a rough couple of days for Martin County Clerk Carol Sue Mills after a grand jury indicted two of her daughters.

Posted: 5:22 PM A Martin County grand jury indicts two former deputy clerks for allegedly abusing public trust.

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: 6:29 PM Deputies in Martin County are looking for a woman who spent more than 100 dollars in counterfeit bills at one store.

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

Posted: 12:20 PM Senator McConnell paid “tribute to an innovative, beneficial, and truly essential organization that serves fellow Kentuckians diagnosed with autism”.

Updated: 8:55 AM Highlands Center for Autism was recently honored in the Congressional Record by Senator Mitch McConnell.

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.