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National Weather Service
The storm, expected to begin overnight Friday, may contain heavy snow with significant accumulations, sleet, ice and arctic temperatures, creating dangerous travel and road conditions and the potential for power outages.
Local News
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Dan KoettSaturday afternoon through Monday, the nonprofit is offering free, first-come, first-served rides for doctors, nurses, and healthcare staff who live and work in Fayette county. -
Morgan Simmons / ESPN Images/Morgan Simmons / ESPN Images/ESPN ImagesAmelia Hassett scored 16 points, but No. 11 Kentucky fell at 17th-ranked Tennessee 60-58 on Thursday night in Knoxville. -
Clay WallaceAn anonymous couple is offering a $1-million matching challenge to permanently fund CivicLex's youth education programs. -
KUWith a potentially historic blast of winter weather approaching Kentucky this weekend, Kentucky Utilities has launched a new instant text and call alert service to inform customers about power outages. -
National Weather ServiceLexington emergency officials are warning the winter storm approaching Kentucky could be one for the history books. -
Jeff Roberson/AP/APState lawmakers have advanced a bill that seeks to fix a number of issues and complaints surrounding a 2025 measure limiting private communications between students and teachers and other school staff.
Radio Shows & Music
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Molly Tuttle stops by WUKY's Rock & Roots and joins host Joe Conkwright.Recorded live on Thursday, August 14, 2025. -
This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Rodney Crowell Featuring Tyler Bryant (The Twenty One Song Salute (Owed to G.G. Shinn and Cléoma Falcon)), Mt. Joy (Lucy), St Paul & the Broken Bones (Sushi And Coca Cola), Tame Impala (End Of Summer), Alison Krauss & Union Station (One Ray Of Shine), & Christone "Kingfish" Ingram (Voodoo Charm)! -
This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Flyte Featuring Aimee Mann (Alabaster), Jade Bird (Save Your Tears), Jeff Tweedy (Enough), The Last Dinner Party (This Is The Killer Speaking), Robert Plant Featuring Suzy Dian (Everybody's Song), & Sheryl Crow & The Real Lowdown (The New Normal)!
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This week's episode of the Crunkadelic Funk Show featured music from Grace Jones, Trouble Funk, Klymaxx, Erykah Badu, George Clinton, Slave, Bonnie Pointer, & more! -
This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Goose (Your Direction), Khatumu (Fire Drill), Counting Crows (With Love From A To Z), Grant-Lee Phillips (She Knows Me), & Warren Haynes Featuring Derek Trucks (These Changes)!
Podcasts
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PodcastsThe Bill Gatton Foundation’s $150 million gift — one of the largest in UK’s history — will create a new home for the arts at the University of Kentucky. UK College of Fine Arts Dean Mark Shanda talks with Tom Musgrave about the project which will include a new CFA building, a modern performance theater and public greenspace that will anchor a growing arts and innovation corridor along South Broadway. -
PodcastsKaterina Stoykova interviews Bill Verble about his debut poetry book, Absence Descending, his mentors, his work at KSPS and more. -
PodcastsJanuary is National Cervical Cancer Awareness Month and Dr. Greg talks with Dr. Patricio Meneses, Academic Dean of Allied Health and Nursing at Bluegrass Community College and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Jordan Hatchett about the prevention of cervical cancer and the HPV vaccine. -
PodcastsWUKY's Open Studio welcomes back Lori Meadows of Kentuckians for the Arts. She and Tom Musgrave discuss the current level of arts funding in Kentucky, in comparison to other states, and preview Kentucky Arts Day, Thursday January 22 in Frankfort.
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