The Marshall County school district is preparing for the new school year, which starts in less than three weeks.

The Purchase District Health Department reports 21 new COVID-19 cases in its five-county district Thursday, nearly half of which are from McCracken County. 

We will be updating this story as more cases are confirmed in the Local 6 area.

The CEO of Murray Calloway County Hospital said there's been a substantial increase in the rate of positive COVID-19 tests.

The Calloway County Health Department says Public Health Director Amy Ferguson has resigned, effective Aug. 22.

SIU Carbondale students are preparing to move back on campus next week.

More of you are spending time outside during the pandemic, boosting sales for kayaks, RVs and other outdoor equipment.

Landing in Cleveland shortly after the news broke, Trump wished DeWine well in light of his diagnosis and told the crowd gathered at the airport that DeWine is a "great guy" who has "done a fantastic job."

 "It’s working, and if we want to get some things back open that we had to pause…this is our way," Gov. Andy Beshear said. 

Gov. Andy Beshear is providing an update on COVID-19 in Kentucky. Tap to watch live. 

"We're not having a short-term extension," Pelosi said when asked if Democrats are ruling out an interim extension of the lapsed federal unemployment enhancement if talks collapse.

More than 2,000 unaccompanied children have been expelled since March under an emergency declaration enacted by the Trump administration.

These numbers come from national data released July 30, estimating the U.S. gross domestic product suffered its largest quarterly decline on the record. 

Nearly 1.2 million laid-off Americans applied for state unemployment benefits last week, evidence that the coronavirus keeps forcing companies to slash jobs just as a critical $600 weekly federal jobless payment has expired.

 Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman will be joining the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce for the August Power in Partnership Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. 

From protocols for screening, to cleaning, to keeping students and staff safe in class, Calloway County Schools has completed its back-to-school plan.

This year's 8th of August celebration will be virtual because of COVID-19.

The Jackson County Illinois Health Department reported 14 new cases in the southern Illinois county Wednesday.

The health department offered free testing in advance of lawmakers returning to work for an ongoing special session on crime.

Watch LIVE as the White House Coronavirus Task Force provides updates on the outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States.

Gov. Andy Beshear reports 546 new cases of COVID-19 in Kentucky Wednesday, including 21 kids ages 5 and under. 

Multiple west Kentucky communities in the Local 6 area will receive CARES Act funding, as millions of dollars in aid for Kentucky were announced Wednesday. 

In the current COVID-19 era, birthday wishes can be hard to fulfill when you can’t see family in person. But a Bay Area family recently figured out a way to make a grandmother’s birthday dream come true.

Governor JB Pritzker is providing an update on the coronavirus in Illinois.

Gov. Bill Lee is providing an update on the coronavirus in Tennessee.

Governor Mike Parson is providing an update on the coronavirus in Missouri.

Local taxing bodies, non-profits, and religious organizations have the opportunity to get reimbursed for funds spent during the COVID-19 pandemic in Williamson County, IL. 

The negotiators are, at long last, actually negotiating.

Biden will accept his nomination virtually from his home state of Delaware, the DNC said. 

Three times as many Black children reported known exposure to the virus as White children, the researchers reported in the journal Pediatrics Wednesday.

Two West Tennessee school districts have been working diligently to come with plans to send students back to school safely amid the COVID-19  pandemic.  

The Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center reported two new coronavirus-related deaths in the southeast Missouri county Tuesday. 

Doctors in Calloway County, Kentucky, say they're concerned with the growing number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in their county.

The Purchase District Health Department reports 10 new cases of COVID-19 in Fulton County, as well as a newly confirmed virus-related death. 

Despite rising cases in west Kentucky, people are still out and about. We looked at traffic data to get a better picture of just how many people.

Just how much information will be provided is still unknown. 

The port development project will be one of the largest investments in southern Illinois in decades.

The non-denominational Christian school released a statement Tuesday, saying a survey of students' found that the majority of parents want their children to go back to school and "strive toward a school year as normal as practicable." 

An inmate at the United States Penitentiary Marion, in Marion, Illinois, has died after testing positive for COVID-19 last month, according to the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons. 

The Calloway County Health Department says, as of Tuesday, the county has had five people die in relation to the coronavirus. 

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is scheduled to visit two counties in southern Illinois Tuesday, Aug. 4. 

Lee said Monday that the special legislative session will convene Aug. 10 to address not only COVID-19 liability but also “telehealth services and laws governing the Capitol grounds.”

Two Southern Illinois school districts say the past few months have been incredibly challenging, and they're still finalizing their back to school plans. 

The Purchase District Health Department reported 33 new COVID-19 cases in its five-county district Monday. 

Landlords can now remove their tenants for late payments, but must give them 30 days notice before eviction.

The Graves County Health Department reports more than two dozen new COVID-19 cases. 

There are two big reasons schools should go back to in-person learning, Fauci said Monday. Students need the psychological and nutritional benefits of being in school, and parents may have to "dramatically modify their work schedule."

Hedy Harden, chairwoman of Missouri CURE, a St. Louis-based prisoner advocacy organization, says people who work at prisons are those most likely to introduce the virus to the facilities.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn presented a year's worth of PPE and cleaning supplies to the teachers at Obion County Central High School.