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C-SPAN/Kentucky's 2022 Teacher of Year testified before a U.S. House subcommittee Thursday, warning that LGBTQ students and teachers feel under attack as states move to restrict discussion of highly-charged issues in classrooms. -
WUKY is collaborating with Martha Greenwald, creator and curator of 'Who We Lost KY' a writing project where friends and families who have lost loved ones to the pandemic pay tribute and in some cases, say their final goodbyes. Today’s essay comes from Diane Hawkins from Jefferson County about her Aunt Joyce Bugg. Gary Graves reads.
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Bruce Schreiner/AP/APA federal judge is keeping a temporary order blocking new abortion restrictions from taking effect in Kentucky in place, meaning the state's two remaining abortion providers can keep their doors open — for now.
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Arlo Barnette/WUKYLexington’s six city pools are preparing to reopen with regular hours for the first time in three years, and they’re getting upgrades paid for by federal pandemic relief dollars.
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This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Sarah Shook & The Disarmers (I Got This), Metric (All Come Crashing), Eli Paperboy Reed (Workingman Blues), Tank & The Bangas (No ID), Dr. John Featuring Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real (I Walk On Guilded Splinters), Florence & The Machine (My Love), & Amythyst Kiah (Sugar)! -
Gov. Andy Beshear says it's fair to say Kentucky has no longer "leveled off" when it comes to new COVID-19 cases, but is instead seeing an escalation. But new variables are keeping hospitalizations and ICU usage in check.
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The Radio Television Digital News Association announced today that WUKY is the winner of a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in journalism for its coverage of the December deadly tornado outbreak in Kentucky.
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WUKY's award winning history program, Saving Stories; featuring interviews from the Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries, commemorates International Nurses' Day with a story about the Frontier Nursing Service which introduced the first nurse-midwives to the United States. Founded in Leslie County by Mary Breckinridge, the nurses of the FNS would travel by horse to some of the most inaccessible regions of Eastern Kentucky. Betty Lester, a recruit from Great Britain shares her memories of her first day in the mountains.
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With the nationwide baby formula shortage now in the headlines, the Fayette County Health Department says it's working to pass along the latest information to the general public. But their main focus is on helping low-income women on the nutrition assistance program known as WIC.
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A ballot mix-up Tuesday has left the race for one Lexington council seat in limbo.
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Former Kentucky House Rep. Charles Booker became the first Black Democratic candidate to be nominated for statewide election in Kentucky history Tuesday night. But the candidate faces a much steeper climb in November.
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First term Lexington councilman David Kloiber edged out former NAACP chief Adrian Wallace to face Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton in the fall.
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Kentucky's COVID positivity rate is climbing again, but officials remain cautiously hopeful this isn't a repeat of the first Omicron surge.
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The promoters of the Railbird Festival say they will take the summer of 2022 off and return to a new location – Red Mile Gaming & Racing, June 3rd and 4th of 2023. The past two Railbirds had been held at Keeneland.
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