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Josh James/WUKYFayette County Schools began the work of assessing its progress five years after convening a panel to respond to the growing safety concerns in the wake of the 2018 school shootings in Parkland, Florida and Marshall County, Kentucky. -
Patrick Semansky/AP/APWith the national pandemic state of emergency coming to an end, Kentucky officials are now working to wind down the temporary streamlined Medicaid program implemented to get people insured faster.
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Kentuckians are mourning the loss of one of the country's preeminent oral historians — former Dean of University of Kentucky Libraries, Terry Birdwhistell. -
What's on the docket this week downtown? We talk with CivicLex's Adrian Bryant about the financial outlook, Lexington's portion of the recent national opioid settlement, and the return of the city's racial justice commission.
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Rebooted plans for a 6,500-seat soccer stadium won their first goal with a Lexington planning commission vote in favor of a zone change on Thursday, but controversy continues to dog the project.
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This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from The Nude Party (Ride On), Wilder Woods (Maestro (Tears Don't Lie), Overcoats (Never Let You Go), Everything But The Girl (Nothing Left To Lose), L.A.B. (Take It Away), Belle & Sebastian (I Don't Know What You See In Me), & Gorillaz Featuring Tame Impala & Bootie Brown (New Gold)!
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A polling snapshot of the Kentucky governor’s race shows Democratic incumbent Andy Beshear boasting a solid lead over his closest Republican rival.
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For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, Kentucky was spared a major surge in serious new COVID-19 cases following the December holidays.
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Kentucky Sixth District Congressman Andy Barr has been named to the House Select Committee on China. The Republican has long taken an interest in the economic powerhouse.
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The executive director of LexPark defended the agency's recent controversial increase in parking prices and expansion of enforcement hours during an Urban County Council meeting Tuesday, but the presentation left many city leaders and members of the public far from satisfied.
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Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton laid out lots of numbers in her annual State of the City address, most pointing to progress she sees the city making on issues, such as affordable housing and gun violence. But one new city council member says her mission is to put a face on those figures.
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In this installment of our weekly look ahead at the Urban County Council's docket, Richard Young discusses meetings focusing on parking prices and the city's youth anti-violence program.
