Vance has family connections to rural Kentucky. Folks disagree on whether he has been, or will be, helpful to the region. (AP Photo/Ben Gray) Breathitt County has been here before. In 2016, the small ...

Saying he expects deaths to reach double digits, the governor called it among the “worst, most devastating flooding events in Kentucky’s history ... Road in Breathitt County, Ky., ...

To the people in “Bloody Breathitt” (pronounced breath-it) County, Ky., homicide has a purely clinical interest. They ask: How big was the gun? How big a hole was blowed in him? There is also ...

BREATHITT COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - Highway 15 in Breathitt County links Jackson with Hazard, and is also on a dam along the Kentucky River. This is the second time in less than two years flooding has ...

BREATHITT COUNTY, Ky. — The sentence for Kentucky’s longest-held death row inmate was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday, according to a press release from the Kentucky Office of ...