disasters

Legislature approves $20 million for housing in disaster zones

BY: - March 17, 2023

FRANKFORT — Although it was much less than they had hoped, affordable-housing advocates in Kentucky are applauding the legislature’s decision to put $20 million into a new Rural Housing Trust Fund. The money is not a new appropriation but comes from more than $400 million the legislature had set aside last year for disaster relief […]

Jobs were hard to find in Dawson Springs. Then a tornado struck.

BY: - December 1, 2022

DAWSON SPRINGS — A long line of cars and trucks trails out of downtown, waiting to pick up bags carried by volunteers, cartons of eggs and more from a food pantry giveaway on a cold November morning.  The need is there, said Lisa Barnes, one of the volunteers loading food into each passing vehicle. As […]