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Morehead State Public Radio (MSPR) will celebrate the Labor Day weekend with special programs.

Three people, including a former deputy jailer of the Mason County Detention Center, were arrested in a drug bust Monday night (March 31).The situation…

Some students at Morehead State University are getting some unique opportunities in the field of music and sound engineering. Morehead State Public…

David Holton made history when he became Kentucky’s first blind judge – serving in the Jefferson District Court for 10 years.

Women 18 and over have until Jan. 4 to register for a special Beyond Becoming an Outdoors-Woman Workshop at Kenlake State Resort Park, Jan.…

U.S. Senate Primary candidate Charles Booker held a campaign rally in Morehead Thursday to promote the "Kentucky New Deal." WMKY conducted a brief interview with Booker following the event.

State Representative Brent Yonts says he will hold public hearings this summer on health care in Kentucky’s prisons. The Greenville Democrat chairs the…

April Dembosky is the health reporter for The California Report and KQED News. She covers health policy and public health, and has reported extensively on the economics of health care, the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act in California, mental health and end-of-life issues. Her work is regularly rebroadcast on NPR and has been recognized with awards from the Society for Professional Journalists (for sports reporting), and the Association of Health Care Journalists (for a story about pediatric hospice). Her hour-long radio documentary about home funeralswon the Best New Artist award from the Third Coast International Audio Festival in 2009. April occasionally moonlights on the arts beat, covering music and dance. Her story about the first symphony orchestra at Burning Man won the award for Best Use of Sound from the Public Radio News Directors Inc. Before joining KQED in 2013, April covered technology and Silicon Valley for The Financial Times, and freelanced for Marketplace and The New York Times. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Smith College.

In this episode of Inside Appalachia, we’ll take a trip across our region and meet people in Tennessee, to Kentucky, and Ohio. Each of the stories...

Governor Steve Beshear is praising what he calls a robust and comprehensive new law that attacks the spectrum of heroin abuse in Kentucky.The bill was…