WUKY Staff

The Kentucky Men's Basketball Team has earned a three seed in the Midwest Region in the NCAA Tournament in Coach Mark Pope’s first season in Lexington. Their path will start in Milwaukee, taking on the No. 14 seed Troy in the opening round on Friday.

Scores of bills are headed to the governor's desk after lawmakers made a final grinding push this week to wrangle votes and hammer out compromises between the House and the Senate.

In the regular season matchup between Kentucky and Oklahoma, Otega Oweh had a huge game, including the game-winning shot, as the Cats beat the Sooners, Oweh’s former team, in Norman. On Thursday night in the second round of the 2025 Southeastern Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Oweh did it again.

Organizers have announced that the Lexington St. Patrick's Parade, scheduled for Saturday, has been canceled due to severe weather potential and a high wind advisory. Festival performances will be moved indoors to the Lyric Theatre beginning at 10:30 a.m.

In celebration of Lexington’s 250th anniversary, WUKY and the Lexington History Museum will host StoryCorps to record the stories of local residents through both in-person and virtual interviews and preserve them in the Library of Congress.

Here in its entirety is the transcript from Mitch McConnell's speech from the floor of the U.S. Senate.

As search, rescue and recovery efforts continue in parts of Kentucky, forecasters are predicting frigid temperatures and potentially heavy snowfall over the next few days.

Relief may soon be on the way for school districts running out of remote learning days following winter storms that hit the state at the start of 2025.

In the face of less than favorable weather conditions the Lex 250 Commission has made some changes to Tuesday night's festivities around Central Bank Center.