Updated: 8:23 AM Hillbilly Days is one of the largest festivals in the state, bringing close to 150,000 visitors to Pike County. Sunday, set up for the festival began.
Updated: 6:56 PM Officials say they have several cats and dogs that need homes. The Appalachian SPCA works to save animals in Pike County. They take cats and dogs out of shelters that are in danger of being euthanized and place them in foster homes until they are adopted.
Updated: 6:55 PM April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and on Saturday hundreds came out for a 5K run and 1-mile walk in downtown Pikeville to support an organization that serves child abuse victims in our region.
Posted: 5:28 PM Folks in the Jonican area of Pike County lost running water in 1997 and have been fighting to get it back. Now some of them will get it, but others will not see it anytime soon.
Updated: 8:25 PM The first dedication ceremony for part of the new U.S. 460 was held in Pike County on Friday. The new bridge running across Shelby Creek has been named the 'Jasper and Anna Justice Memorial Bridge.'
Posted: 2:20 PM Big Sandy RECC is making preparations for restoration of possible power outages caused by severe thunderstorms and damaging winds expected in our area late this evening.
Updated: 3:49 PM Three people face drug charges following an Operation UNITE investigation into prescription pills being brought into Magoffin County from Ohio.
Updated: 1:43 AM Rebecca Sue Blankenship, 41, is identified by family members as the person who died in the fire early Saturday morning at her home on Drift Branch Road in Johns Creek.
Updated: 6:36 AM Handcrafted wood furniture and three greenhouses filled with various plants, are all constructed and maintained by participants in Mountain Comprehensive Care's Adult Day Training program at Shelby Valley in Pike County.
Updated: 5:25 PM Shelby Damron died Sunday when the ATV she was on crashed into a tree. Now her friends and teachers at Johns Creek Elementary School in Pike County are trying to deal with the loss.
Updated: 12:16 PM The Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) will host Adult Learner College Fairs at all 16 of its colleges beginning this week.
Posted: 8:16 PM The assassination of Eugene Crum brought back painful memories for former Kentucky First Lady Judi Patton. She was only nine years old when her father, then Pike County sheriff Roy Conway, was killed.
Updated: 3:32 PM Mays and Sheppard kicked off the 'School is Cool' tour at Valley Elementary, the tour then went to Johns Creek Elementary and ended the afternoon at the Mullins School.
Posted: 8:30 AM Big Sandy Superstore has announced plans to expand into the Lancaster, Ohio market with a 50,000 square foot home furnishings superstore in 2013.
Posted: 5:47 PM Kentucky statistics show that coal production in some of the state's historically big producers dropped in 2012 to the lowest levels seen in 47 years.
Updated: 7:35 AM Officials say the new Homeless Veterans Transitional Housing Center has the perfect location for serving Veterans in rural areas as it is in between the Huntington VA, Mountain Home VA in Tennessee, and the Lexington VA.
