Karyn Czar

The University of Kentucky and Baptist Health Lexington will be among the first facilities receiving doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the commonwealth.

A new round of restrictions will take effect in Kentucky this Friday, as the state stares down a third escalation in coronavirus infections.

Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton has named Lisa Higgins-Hord the new Councilmember for the 6th District. The oath of office was administered Tuesday afternoon by Higgins-Hord’s aunt, Judge Pamela Goodwine. The city’s newest council member will fill the remaining four and a half months of Angela Evans term. Evans resigned last month after getting accepted to Princeton’s graduate program.   More from WUKY's Karyn Czar.

Hundreds of people have rallied at Kentucky’s capitol to urge action in the investigation of three police officers in the fatal shooting of a Black woman, Breonna Taylor, in Louisville.

Baptist Health Lexington has announced plans to build a medical campus that will create hundreds of jobs in Kentucky’s second-largest city.   Karyn Czar reports.

As we all make our way through the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic together and get used to this new “normal”, I wanted to feature people across the state who are doing whatever they can to make a difference. I was lucky enough to sit down; more than six feet away of course, with American Sign Language Interpreter Virginia Moore. She has stood to the left of Governor Andy Beshear since the virus first hit Kentucky last month, bringing important messages to the deaf and hard of hearing.