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Spotlight On Child Welfare in Kentucky: Ranks Among States With Most Underprivileged Children
August is Child Support Awareness Month, and the personal finance website WalletHub just released its annual report on the States with the Most Underprivileged Children. It's a time to reflect on the well-being of children, and based on the study results, there's still work to be done in Kentucky. While...
Dolly Parton to kickoff Kentucky’s statewide expansion of Imagination Library
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Dolly Parton is in Kentucky to celebrate the program she founded, Imagination Library, going statewide. It was WAVE News that helped bring it to Jefferson County. Bill Shory had just moved to Louisville 11 years ago with his family, including his daughter Isabella, who loved getting the books every month from Imagination Library. The program was huge in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Kentucky weather today: Heat and humidity on the rise
LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) —High pressure keeps us dry, hot, and more humid today. Expect highs to reach the low to mid-90s with feel-like temperatures in the mid to upper 90s. The heat dome remains over the region mid-to-late week when record highs are possible. The record-high temperatures highlighted in orange represent those that have the best chance of being tied or broken.
Jackson County pulls out 3-1 win over South Laurel
MCKEE — Jackson County and South Laurel hooked up in an old-fashioned 13th Region matchup with the Lady Generals coming away with a 3-1 win. The win improved Jackson County to 5-3 while the Lady Cardinals fell to 6-4. “Jackson is a really scrappy team and they play with...
KSR’s Kentucky High School Football 2024 Week 1 Top 25 Rankings
Football time in the Bluegrass has arrived. Over the weekend, high school football across the state of Kentucky got rolling with the 2024 regular season. There were plenty of Top 25 matchups in action, including a top-five showdown in the KSR Game of the Week between Frederick Douglass and Bowling Green that saw the Broncos […] The post KSR’s Kentucky High School Football 2024 Week 1 Top 25 Rankings appeared first on On3.
Amendment 2 would send tax dollars to church schools
Many Kentucky churches are losing members and money, but they’re hoping taxpayers will vote to bail them out of their financial problems. Church lobbyists pushed Amendment 2 onto the November ballot, and if their scheme passes, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars will flow into questionable religious schools operated in church basements across the commonwealth. […]
Kentucky on track to see third decrease in state income tax in 2026
Members of the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue received formal notification that the conditions required to lower the state’s personal income tax to 3.5% in January of 2026 have been met. In 2022, lawmakers passed HB 8, a historic tax modernization package that included provisions to eliminate the state’s individual income tax gradually […] The post Kentucky on track to see third decrease in state income tax in 2026 appeared first on The Advocate-Messenger.
Teachers Retirement System sees double-digit growth
Kentucky teachers’ retirement investments posted double-digit gains for the recently concluded fiscal year, 12.27 percent for the Retirement Annuity Trust and 12.73 percent for the Health Insurance Trust. This marked the second consecutive year of double-digit growth, and both returns exceeded the prior year’s figures of 10.61% and 11.94% respectively. Returns for the Teachers’ Retirement […] The post Teachers Retirement System sees double-digit growth appeared first on The Advocate-Messenger.
Debate on curbing pardon powers in Kentucky comes back following new assault case
ERLANGER, Ky. (WKRC) - A new assault case involving a Lexington man previously set free by a former Kentucky governor has renewed the debate over how much power governors should have to let convicted criminals go free. In late 2019, former Republican Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin commuted or reduced nearly...
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