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WKMS has a roundup of results from the 2026 Election for Kentucky's westernmost counties from federal, state and local races.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced on Thursday that it had accepted General Matter’s application for the company’s planned $1.5 billion uranium enrichment facility on the grounds of the U.S. Department of Energy site in McCracken County that housed the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

A first-of-its-kind uranium enrichment facility in western Kentucky has cleared another major milestone on its journey to getting the project up and running.

A documentary about a Kentucky miner's strike endures 50 years later. Harlan County USA's message still resonates today.

It’s been 50 years since the release of “Harlan County USA,” the Academy Award-winning film from director Barbara Kopple that shined a light on an eastern Kentucky coal mining community. Its echoes can still be heard in Appalachian music, documentaries and modern labor movements.

The Republican incumbent, Craig Clymer, is seeking a third term in office. He’s facing a challenge from Paducah Mayor George Bray, who filed to run in the race as an independent. Danielle Guminski, a nurse practitioner who ran for a seat on the county’s fiscal court in May’s primary, filed over the summer to run in the race as a write-in candidate.

WKMS provides readers and listeners in far western Kentucky with coverage of contested races for Congress, the state legislature and several local leadership offices that are up for grabs on Nov. 3.

Gov. Andy Beshear announced the creation of the Governor’s Office of Music Friday during an appearance at Bourbon & Beyond in Louisville, one of the state’s marquee music festivals.

All of the uranium that comes out of Global Laser Enrichment’s planned Paducah enrichment facility will be bought by Cameco, a Canadian corporation that owns a minority stake in GLE.

A federal bill signed into law Friday morning by President Donald Trump will allow the Oscar Cross Boys & Girls Club to assume formal ownership of the property it’s utilized for years in Paducah.