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Kentucky county jails ask for more state help, citing financial woes
County officials have, for years, come to the Kentucky legislature to discuss the state of their jails. Frequently dealing with overcrowding and rising operating costs, county jails are once again asking the state for more money and long-term solutions.
KY Superintendent of the Year Announced
Dr. Nick Carter, superintendent of Breckinridge County Schools, has been named the 2025 Superintendent of the Year by the Kentucky Association of School Administrators (KASA). He received this prestigious award during KASA’s annual leadership institute in Louisville on July 26, 2024. For over 30 years, KASA has partnered with...
Extreme heat, humidity for next few days in Kentucky and southern Indiana | Weather Impact Alert Day
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Despite the storms rolling through Tuesday morning, sunshine will take over and temperatures will quickly recover as we approach the afternoon. Unfortunately, this is only day one of a three-day stretch of extreme heat that will impact Kentucky and Indiana. Because of the potentially dangerous heat, the WHAS11 Weather Impact Team has declared Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as Weather Impact Alert Days.
Climate change has Kentucky flood victims weighing safety against tradition
The state is planning to create seven new neighborhoods, most on top of old mining sites in eastern Kentucky. But can they make the homes affordable and attractive enough to draw locals in to settle them?
Racist notes distributed in NKY concern residents, prompt calls to action
Catrena Bowman, Erlanger resident, business owner and executive director of the Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission, had suspected something was up for a while, but she wasn’t certain until about a week and a half ago when her landscaper sent her a photo of a note scrawled on a paper bag he’d found in her yard, the same bag Bowman had spied at a distance earlier but didn’t think much of.
Beshear promises better times for ravaged region on flood’s second anniversary
WAYLAND, Ky. – Gov. Andy Beshear promised a different future for Eastern Kentucky as he made five stops in the region Friday to signal the weekend’s second anniversary of record floods on the night of July 27-28, 2022. In the little Floyd County town of Wayland, Beshear dedicated 11 homes that he said would be […]
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