Articles by Derek Aaron

A big weekend is upcoming in Jamestown and Jamestown Mayor Regena Hinton talked with WJRS NEWS about this year’s Lakefest celebration, which gets underway this Friday, June 30th with some familiar events and some new […]

Following Sunday night’s severe thunderstorms, utility crews were once again called upon to bring power, phone, television, and internet services back online locally. As of Monday night, just under 2,000 Russell County South Kentucky RECC […]

The Russell County Public Library has been awarded a portion of a $300,000 grant from EBSCO Information Services, which is headquartered in Massachusetts, to install solar panels to offset the library’s electrical demand by a […]

New laws related to child abuse, drugs, gambling, mental health, gender services, education and dozens of other topics are set to take effect on Thursday after receiving a nod from the Kentucky General Assembly earlier […]

A group of state legislators recently met in Frankfort concerning the lessons learned from the global pandemic. Keith West files this report from the state capitol for WJRS NEWS on the meeting and where legislators […]

Strong to severe thunderstorms with powerful wind gusts, hail, and torrential rainfall pushed through the area late Sunday night, knocking out power to thousands of customers in Russell and surrounding counties. Trees, limbs and utility […]

A couple of transportation cabinet projects get underway today in Russell County. A portion of KY 379 is temporarily closed as crews work to replace a cross drain beneath the roadway. Beginning today, KY 379 […]

The Lake Cumberland District counties of Casey, Cumberland, Taylor, and Green are among the more than 20 counties that received a major disaster declaration last year and are now eligible to apply for grants to […]

Conservation officers and biologists with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources want to remind the public that sightings of black bears are common across Kentucky and encounters with them are possible, especially in […]

Russell County’s latest unemployment rate, this one for the month of May, comes in at 5.2 percent, according to newly released data from the Kentucky Center for Statistics. The local unemployment rate increased from 4.6 […]