The Jackson, Kentucky, office is one of a growing number of forecast offices unable to cover an overnight shift since the Trump administration cut staffing levels through buyouts and firings.

The Jackson office is responsible for forecasts in Eastern Kentucky, which has been hit hard the past two years with severe flooding, including a devastating 2022 flood that killed 45 people and ...

The NWS has lost 600 people through layoffs and retirements, according to The New York Times, leaving many local weather stations scrambling to cover shortfalls. The office in Jackson, Kentucky ...

Powerful storms swept through several states last night, with much of the worst damage concentrated in Missouri and Kentucky. Five people died in Missouri. St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer called the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A tractor accident in southern Indiana killed a 68-year-old woman and a 4-year-old boy. According ...

LONDON, Ky. — The National Weather Service (NWS) in Jackson has shared new details about the monster tornado that devastated multiple Kentucky towns, killing 19 people on Friday.

Amid storms that killed 27, the NWS office in Jackson, Kentucky, reportedly scrambled to cover overnight forecasts on Friday. ... Two more people died in Scott County, ...

JACKSON, Ky. — Deep in a quiet mountain holler called Panbowl Branch, outside a decaying town of 2,000 in one of America’s ...

The National Weather Service has confirmed the tornado that hit southern Kentucky, causing massive devastation reached EF-4 level strength.

> Of 625 live births recorded last year, only three occurred in a hospital; mountain midwives delivered 531. Breathitt’s birth rate of 28.92 per 1,000 population is well above Kentucky’s, but ...

Late in the evening on May 16 and in the early hours of May 17, 2025, a tornado tore apart homes and businesses in southern Kentucky. At least 19 people died as a result. That's not true — the ...

Before the nation’s highest court ruled in favor of marriage equality, couples like the Story-Jacksons didn’t know where ...