This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Bear's Den Featuring Jade Bird (Please Don't Hide Yourself Away), Rosa Linn (Snap), Billy Lockett (Not Okay), Odesza Featuring The Knocks (Love Letter), Charley Crockett (I'm Just A Clown), She & Him (Wouldn't It Be Nice), & Marcus Mumford (Grace)!

A cultural center known for chronicling Appalachian life is cleaning up and assessing its losses. Like much of its stricken region, Appalshop has been swamped by historic flooding. The water inundated downtown Whitesburg in southeastern Kentucky, causing extensive damage to the renowned repository of Appalachian history and culture. Some losses are likely permanent, after raging waters soaked or swept away some of Appalshop’s treasure trove of historic material. Dr. Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History and colleagues from the UK Libraries traveled this week to Appalshop to help save as many irreplaceable materials as possible. In this special edition of WUKY’s award winning history program Saving Stories, Doug talks about the devastation he saw and highlights the special relationship the Nunn Center has with Appalshop.

If you're in Eastern Kentucky or heading there to help with cleanup efforts in the wake of the flooding, there are some important hazards to be aware of as recovery efforts shift gears.

More than 500 businesses and individuals from our area are already registered to participate in the city’s most inclusive business networking event, which is celebrating 20 years. Here's a preview of this week’s Lexington Bluegrass Area Minority Business Expo.

The U.S. Justice Department has charged four Louisville police officers involved in the deadly Breonna Taylor raid with civil rights violations.

Jim Andrews was recently elected to the University of Kentucky Athletics Hall of Fame. He played basketball at UK from 1970-73. In three seasons -- freshmen were not eligible for varsity play at that time – he had 43 double-doubles, third in UK history behind Dan Issel and Cotton Nash. He averaged a double-double in each of his last two seasons – 21.5 ppg and 11.3 rpg as a junior, and 20.1 and 12.4 his senior year. The Wildcats won SEC championships in all three of his seasons, and he earned first team all-SEC honors in both his junior and senior years. In this conversation, he talks about his recruitment by UK (it included some help from a gas station attendant who was filling up assistant coach Joe B. Hall’s car on a recruiting trip), the transition from Adolph Rupp to Hall as head coach, the matchups with rival Tennessee at a time when only the conference champion made the NCAA tournament, and how the uncertainty and eventual demise of the ABA affected his professional career. He also covered his international experience in the professional ranks, and his relationships with UK teammates, including Tom Payne, the first African-American to play at Kentucky.

WoodSongs is once again holding an instrument drive to replace those lost by musicians during the recent floods in eastern Kentucky.

The flooding in Eastern Kentucky is only part of a growing list of recent weather events described as “record-breaking.” So what can Kentucky do to protect against extreme weather, which climate scientists predict is going to become more frequent?

The legal tug-of-war over abortion in Kentucky continues, with the ACLU now taking its case against the state’s ban on abortions to the commonwealth’s high court.

The WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour will continue to emanate from the Lyric Theatre in Lexington’s historic East End neighborhood for at least the next 5 years. Mayor Linda Gorton, folksinger Michael Johnathon and the Lyric’s Theatre and Cultural Arts Center Executive Director Whit Whitaker on Wednesday announced a renewal of the partnership that’s been in place since the program relocated from the Kentucky Theatre in 2013.