It was a summer-like Tuesday across Central and Eastern Kentucky, even by early fall standards as mostly sunny sunny skies allowed afternoon highs to jump into the low 80s across Southern and Eastern Kentucky with mid-80s across most of the Bluegrass. These readings were a good 6 to 8 degrees above average for late September but we’ve got some welcome...
(CNN) – Uber Eats is taking steps to make sure more people have access to fresh groceries. The company announced it will allow customers to use food stamps for food orders beginning next year. Uber says it is making the change as a way to reduce barriers to fresh groceries for those who are most vulnerable. And that won’t be...
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Lanes around Circus Square Park will see traffic impacts in preparation for the Bowling Green International Festival. Drivers will begin seeing lane closures and parking removal as early as Friday, officials say. On Saturday, plan ahead to celebrate on festival day and prepare for street closures adjacent to Circus Square Park. These will include portions of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is rushing headlong into crisis mode Tuesday with a government shutdown days away, as Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces an insurgency from hard-right Republicans eager to slash spending even if it means halting pay for the military and curtailing federal services for millions of Americans. There’s no clear path ahead as lawmakers return with tensions high and...
Construction is set to begin in November and be completed in January 2025.
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House. Judge Arthur Engoron, ruling in a civil lawsuit brought by New York’s attorney general, found that the former president and his company deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WLEX) – Two high school students helping with community cleanup in Woodford County ended up doing more good than they ever intended. The juniors recently helped clean up debris and trash from the area near where a World War II veteran once lived. But what seemed like trash is truly a treasure – a World War II dog...
Kentucky’s recent dry spell has resulted in nearly half of the state being designated as abnormally dry, according to the latest weekly U.S. Drought Monitor report, which was released on Thursday. Nearly half (45.66%) of Kentucky is now considered “Abnormally Dry,” which is which is labeled as D0 on the drought scale that goes up […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden sued Rudy Giuliani and another attorney Tuesday, saying the two wrongly accessed and shared his personal data after obtaining it from the owner of a Delaware computer repair shop. The lawsuit was the latest in a new strategy by Hunter Biden to strike back against Republican allies of Donald Trump, who have traded and passed...
The road reopened just before 4 p.m., according to fire officials.
According to the CDC, nearly 50,000 people died by suicide in the U.S. in 2021.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky police officer who was critically wounded by gunfire while conducting a traffic stop has been released from the hospital. The family of Louisville Metro Police Officer Brandon Haley shared the news of his discharge in an update posted Monday to the police department’s Facebook page and said he would continue to receive outpatient services....
LEXINGTON, Ky (WTVQ)- It’s being called a growing crisis: homelessness affecting students in the Fayette County Public School system. Community leaders addressed that crisis Tuesday, while releasing the results of a homelessness street survey completed last month. The street survey was conducted on August 30th and it shows that around 2,410 people are homeless in Lexington. But out of those,...
Craving Wawa hoagies or Buc-ee’s jerky? Kentucky will have both.
Case McCullough, age 6 months, went home to be with the Lord on September 23, 2023 at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital while surrounded by his loving family. He was born March 6, 2023 in Middlesboro, Kentucky to Jacob and Elizabeth McCullough. Left to cherish his memory, his daddy and mommy Jacob and Elizabeth McCullough, big […]
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Well-wishers from around the state came to the Capitol Rotunda on Monday to pay their final respects to former Gov. Brereton C. Jones, who died Sept. 18 at the age of 84, following a lengthy illness. Jones served as Kentucky’s 58th governor from 1991-95, and before that as Lt. Governor from 1987-1991, under then-Gov. Wallace Wilkinson. […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton and other city leaders cut the ribbon on more affordable housing Tuesday. The ceremony officially opened the Kearney Ridge Apartments on Kearney Ridge Boulevard in northern Lexington. The complex includes more than 250 one-, two- and three-bedroom affordable apartments for low-income families. “This is a community. I mean, there are people living...
A group of Louisville lawmakers announced Tuesday they'll introduce legislation called the Safer Kentucky Act, a proposal aimed at reversing what's been a multi-year surge in violent crime.