SOAR partnership with ‘Make My Move’ program is bringing people to the region.

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Floyd County Chamber of Commerce director talks about her organization’s recent letter of support for the initiative.

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Pikeville Deputy City Manager Brad Slone says the arena is a vital source of revenue and was last looked at about a decade ago.

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Coal Run Mayor Andrew H. Scott announced Wednesday a nearly-$6-million investment to rebuild Weddington Plaza.

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Framatome looks to hire a number of people to work in nuclear facilities. SOAR representatives say the company wants to hire quickly.

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Ball said the waste came from payments made for residents no longer living in the state.

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The Mountain Association has facilitated many of their solar panels throughout the Eastern Kentucky region.

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Riley Thompson with SOAR visited Pikeville to talk about SOAR’s upcoming events and recent developments

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FRANKFORT, Ky. — Unemployment has fallen in 115 counties across Kentucky, but remains high Eastern Kentucky. That’s the takeaway from the latest county figures released Thursday by the Kentucky Center for Statistics.

Martin County had the state’s highest unemployment rate, at 9.5 percent. Magoffin County had the second-highest, at 9.1 percent.

Elsewhere across the region, Pike County had an unemployment rate of 6.5 percent, while Floyd County was at 6.7 percent. Johnson County was at 6.9 percent, Knott County was at 7.2 percent and Letcher County was at 6.2 percent.

Oldham, Shelby and Woodford counties had the state’s lowest unemployment, at 4 percent.

Statewide, the unemployment was at 4.9 percent.

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Tourism economic report shows more than $14 billion spent through tourism across Appalachia.

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