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A House shell bill was changed in a committee Monday afternoon to move millions of dollars from disaster relief funds into rebuilding projects in Eastern and Western Kentucky.
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A historic Mayfield hotel that has stood in the far western Kentucky city’s court square for nearly a century will soon be demolished.
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Camp Graves, a western Kentucky nonprofit formed in the wake of the December 2021 tornado outbreak, is launching two new housing sites dedicated to aiding underserved populations impacted by the disaster.
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The Mayfield-Graves County Long Term Recovery Group updated community partners Tuesday about ongoing recovery efforts more than two years after the area was hit by a deadly and historic tornado outbreak.
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A newly released oral history project documents memories of the December 10, 2021 EF-4 tornado in Mayfield, Kentucky, from the perspectives of survivors – and shares their stories of recovering from the historic disaster.
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A deadly and destructive EF-4 tornado swept through western Kentucky just over two years ago, killing 24 people in Mayfield and Graves County, injuring dozens more and damaging thousands of structures – including the county courthouse. The county broke ground on a new courthouse building Monday.
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A special examination of the Team Western Kentucky Tornado Relief Fund by the Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts’ office found that nearly $240,000 in inappropriate payments were made from the account in Fiscal Year 2023.
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MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Following historic rainfall and flooding earlier this summer, farmers in Graves County, Kentucky sustained field damage and crop loss. That was 18 months after a tornado outbreak that killed dozens of residents -- and destroyed the grain elevators many farmers relied on to store their crops. Some in the county say that farmers with smaller operations had a harder time coping with these extreme weather events, mirroring a global pattern where smallholder farmers find it more difficult to distribute their risk and more challenging to recover when disaster strikes. Many have noticed changes in weather patterns over the years, but most also see it as a part of farming and don't have major plans to adapt their practices.
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More than $5 million in federal funding is going to help build 26 new homes in Mayfield for survivors of the 2021 tornado outbreak.
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear joined Mayfield nonprofit groups on Thursday to hand out the keys to the 100th new home for survivors of the 2021 tornado outbreak financed in part by the Team Western Kentucky Tornado Relief Fund.