USA — Kentucky's Lake Cumberland is massive. Spanning parts of five counties and at 101 miles long, it is one of the state’s biggest economic and tourist drivers. In fact, more than 4 million visitors ...

A decades-long effort to protect a pristine Kentucky lake from potential commercial development ... earnings on offshore oil and gas leases. The area won’t be open to the public for some time.

Lake Barkley is joined by Kentucky Lake in its encasement of the National Recreation Area known as Land Between the Lakes, or what locals who were removed from the land decades ago called the ...