Whitney Jones
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Kentucky’s Industrial Hemp Pilot Research Program is expanding as it rolls into its third year.This year, officials are looking to further develop the…
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Around 120 Kentucky farmers will grow hemp this year as the state enters its second of five years of hemp research and testing as allowed under the Farm…
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For the first time in about a century, no union coal miners are working in Kentucky. The state’s few remaining union miners were laid off New Year’s Eve…
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The Kentucky Retirement Systems billed Hopkins County more than $51,000 last month for so-called pension spiking, or artificially raising employees’ wages…
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A Madisonville North Hopkins County High School transgender student is working on a petition to allow him to use the bathroom he chooses instead of the…
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An Alliance coal mine in Hopkins County is set to close in early 2016 as the Elk Creek site runs out of coal. But Madisonville-Hopkins County Economic…
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has found about half of ground chicken is contaminated with salmonella, and the agency is proposing new standards to…
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In a new rule issued this week, the Mine Safety and Health Administration is requiring underground coal mines to equip their continuous mining machines…