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Posted: Saturday, January 24, 2015 8:33 am By CARRIE STAMBAUGH / For The Independent PRINCESS The number Boyd County residents complaining to environmental regulators about a foul odor emanating from Big Run Landfill numbered in the hundreds during 2014. Complaints rose sharply... Read More →

Posted: Saturday, January 10, 2015 11:59 am | Updated: 9:39 pm, Sat Jan 10, 2015. By CARRIE STAMBAUGH For The Independent PRINCESS For the better part of a decade residents of Boyd County have complained about a stench of rotting garbage emanating from Big Run Landfill. River... Read More →

New Camping Guidebook Released by Local Outdoor Writer Camping Kentucky details state’s public campgrounds The Greater Ashland Beacon ASHLAND Local outdoor writer Chris Erwin has written his first book, Camping Kentucky: A Comprehensive Guide to Public Tent and RV Campgrounds.... Read More →

Posted: Sunday, November 16, 2014 3:34 pm By CARRIE STAMBAUGH For The Independent ASHLAND AK Steel officials say they are cooperating with a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency order to monitor and analyze soil and groundwater at the former Ashland Coke Plant. The first set of... Read More →

Posted: Saturday, October 11, 2014 11:39 pm By CARRIE STAMBAUGH For The Independent ASHLAND A year after public wrangling over whether state or federal environmental officials should oversee the cleanup of hazardous waste at AK Steel’s now defunct Ashland Coke Plant, some... Read More →

Ongoing UK Markey Cancer Research program provides women free screening By Carrie Stambaugh, For The Independent ASHLAND, Ky. — To mark September as National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, local women are being encouraged to empower themselves by participating in a free research... Read More →

Meeting educates lawyers on law changes, new filing system The Greater Ashland Beacon / July BELLEFONTE Local members of the Kentucky Bar Association gathered this week in Russell and Bellefonte. Part of a series of annual updates in progress across the state, local lawyers... Read More →

The Independent | Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2013 11:05 am AK Steel Corp. will pay a $1.65 million civil penalty to resolve alleged violations of air pollution laws that occurred at its now-closed coke plant in Ashland, the Department of Justice and Environmental Protection... Read More →


The Independent | Posted: Thursday, August 15, 2013 12:02 am ASHLAND U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is asking the federal Environmental Protection Agency to shift enforcement and oversight of the AK Steel Coke Plant cleanup to Kentucky environmental officials. McConnell... Read More →

This piece was recognized by the Kentucky Press Association in 2010. It was awarded First Place for Best Analytical/Enterprise Story in the Daily Class 2 category for the annual Excellence in Kentucky Newspapers Awards.   The Independent | Progress Edition 2009 ASHLAND Kentucky... Read More →