During the 1930s coal miners’ families often suffered from serious hunger to the point of starvation. A June 1, 1976, article by Bill Bishop in the magazine Facing South described ...

Mostly sunny with a high of 64 °F (17.8 °C) and a 37% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 5 to 7 mph (8 to 11.3 kph). Night - Mostly cloudy. Winds variable at 7 mph (11.3 kph). The ...

After days of deluges overfilled rivers to near-record levels across Kentucky, residents were anxious to return to their flooded homes and assess what was salvageable, even as stubbornly high ...

After rescue, uh, that have turned what could be *** very deadly event and one where sadly we've lost two individuals but again it could have been so much worse. So to all the uh rescue teams from ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — As flood survivors are slowly able to access their homes again, many are wondering when federal aid is coming to help them recover. Kentucky will soon be applying for ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

JESSAMINE COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — Many families are left wondering about the conditions of their homes, including people who live along the Kentucky River near High Bridge. We spoke with a ...

April 8 (UPI) --The owners of a Kentucky restaurant in the path of the Ohio river floods shared their unusual strategy for keeping the dirty water out: intentionally flooding the building with ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Several Kentucky communities are underwater after a deadly flooding event swept through the Commonwealth. Some areas got 10 inches of rain or more in just a few days.

Twenty-three people have died in the storms, including four people in Kentucky. The mother of a 9-year-old boy is speaking out after he was swept away and killed by floodwaters in Kentucky during ...