Kentucky News

The Kentucky Enquirer reported that the Southgate Fire Department will receive the award for the gallantry and courage shown by firefighters, who saved about 2,000 people from the blaze, which killed 165 people.

Graham, a retired teacher from Frankfort, replaces former state Rep. Carl Rollins who resigned to lead the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority and the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corp.

A south-central Kentucky city is hoping to capture methane gas from a regional landfill and turn it into electricity.

A Canadian man facing federal charges of stalking the brother of actress Jennifer Lawrence in Kentucky has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric exam.

A newspaper's analysis has found that almost 100 bridges in the northern Kentucky-Cincinnati region need attention due to age or defects.

Police say a central Kentucky man who was killed after being hit by a train was standing on the tracks when he was struck.

Just in time for summer, Morehead State Public Radio will give away five 2013 Kentucky Golf Tour Books.

The Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange will begin an advertising campaign in mid-June to promote its work in TV spots that will run statewide.

"In April we set another attendance record and we are expecting and preparing for what looks like will be another great crowd," said Rebecca Rose, who with her husband, Russell, and her father, Allen Lanier, brother Doug Lanier and their family, have hosted the festivals on their family farm two miles out of historic Guyton since 2002.

A one-time county attorney from northeastern Kentucky has been disbarred because of his role in a vote buying scheme during the 2006 election.

Saturday, June 1, 2013 is National Trails Day and parks throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky will celebrate with a variety of activities.

The Kentucky Supreme Court has suspended northern Kentucky attorney Eric C. Deters for 60 days because of misconduct in two civil cases.

The Black Keys perform July 13 at Waterfront Park in Louisville during the Forecastle Festival.

TV in Hazard reported Getson Roberts was caught hours after escaping from the Clay County Detention Center.

Not long after accepting Purdue's head-coaching position, Darrell Hazell made four-star running back Dalyn Dawkins a priority prospect.

Kentucky Housing Corp. is reporting that the number of homeless in Kentucky now stands at nearly 2,400, down significantly from past years.

Eight proud grandchildren flipped up a letter to spell out "F-U-T-S-C-H-E-R" at a local airport to welcome home their grandfather who was among veterans flown to Washington, D.C., to reflect on their military experiences.

On Saturday, June 1, the trio performs at The Comet in Northside in honor of its new release, a 7-inch vinyl single/EP on longtime Cincy Punk/Experimental label Centsless Productions, which has previously released material by local faves like The Socials' new release is titled The Beast Bites and it features four mangy, lo-fi tracks of melodic, ... (more)

In the documentary Bert Combs, Governor from the Mountains , the late Thomas D. Clark, Kentucky's most eminent historian, said that Combs dragged Kentucky into the Twentieth Century against its will.

Ciprofloxacin-resistant S. enterica serovar Kentucky represents 66% of all ciprofloxacin-resistant nontyphoidal Salmonella sp.