Muhlenberg County

After a church in Muhlenberg County provided her with shelter, a woman experiencing homelessness landed a job just days later. While some are trying to help homeless people in the rural western Kentucky area, the woman says others in the community "try to sweep us under the rug like we don’t exist.”

In Muhlenberg County – a rural area with few resources for people without shelter – a loose coalition of people are trying to address a growing need to help those experiencing homelessness.

The United States is getting back into the TNT game for the first time in nearly four decades. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made the announcement Friday alongside local and federal Kentucky officials and members of the U.S. military in Greenville, Kentucky.

Life-size statues of a trio of music legends with Central City roots — Don and Phil Everly and John Prine — were dedicated on Friday in the small western Kentucky community’s downtown.

John Prine’s parents were from the western Kentucky county, and the songwriter often spent childhood summers in the town of Paradise.

Groups like the United Way of Kentucky are continuing to support the progress communities are making as recovery efforts continue nearly nine months after the December tornado outbreak.

A small Muhlenberg County community is honoring the memory of 11 residents that died in December’s tornado outbreak with a free concert.

During the initial shock, loss and confusion of a disaster, like the devastating tornadoes that ripped across Kentucky in December, federal, state and local agencies provide immediate help.

Gov. Andy Beshear said the death toll remained at 74 after weekend tornadoes. The ages of the deceased ranged from 2 months to 98 years old.

Former Democratic state Rep. Brent Yonts of Greenville died Friday morning after a battle with COVID-19.