FRANKFORT, KY.- Kentucky’s plan to build one of the country’s largest publicly owned broadband networks was touted as a cornerstone of the effort to save the Appalachian economy by bringing high-speed internet to some of the poorest counties in America. It was supposed to take a year to finish, but three years later only a fraction…
PADUCAH, KY— All week, local leaders have shared our area’s arts and culture with representatives from 15 countries. On Wednesday, the group toured the Carson Center. The international delegates took a behind-the-scenes look at how the center operates. One of them, Ahmed Almatar, is a mayor’s consultant from Al-Ahsa, another UNESCO Creative City in Saudi…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – The Louisville Arena Authority plans to move forward with the scheduled refinancing of the KFC Yum! Center’s debt, even as the building’s main tenant faces an uncertain future.University of Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino was suspended Wednesday, a day after federal criminal complaints alleged that at least two U of…
A federal judge has blocked a Kentucky law requiring a doctor performing an abortion to conduct an ultrasound. The General Assembly approved the law in January. It also requires a doctor to show and describe an ultrasound to a patient and to play audio of the fetal heartbeat. The decision by U.S. District Court Judge…
This week on Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine the host talks with Dr. Suzanne Segerstrom, professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Segerstrom has recently been awarded a National Institute on Aging grant to study the effects of stress on the immune system in older adults. The answers could hold hope for individuals…
Gov. Matt Bevin and Attorney General Andy Beshear were back in court on Wednesday, this time over a challenge to the governor’s reorganization of several education boards this summer. Beshear argues that the governor illegally suspended laws passed by the legislature when he issued an executive order adding four non-voting advisors to the Kentucky Board…
FRANKFORT- Kentucky prosecutors warned the Bevin Administration this week that 17.4 percent cuts to their budgets would force them to either close their offices and lay off hundreds of employees by March 1 or cut their employees’ salaries by as much as 75 percent beginning Jan. 1. “Drastic measures such as these would result in systemic…
Broadband Implementation Manager Larry R. Combs spoke to members of the Corbin City Commission and members of the community Monday afternoon about the KentuckyWired project. KentuckyWired is scheduled to bring more than 3,000 miles of high-speed, high-capacity fiber infrastructure to all 120 counties in Kentucky. Southeastern Kentucky has been granted a priority and is scheduled…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) — The American Heart Association Hands-Only CPR Mobile Tour stopped in Bowling Green at Western Kentucky University to teach free, life-saving lessons to the campus community. During the event on Monday afternoon, participants practiced CPR chest compressions on “manikins”, learned how to work an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), and were able…
FRANKFORT, Ky. — As Kentucky lawmakers prepare to tackle pension reform, they’re also considering the impact the commonwealth’s struggling retirement systems will have on the next budget and whether legislators’ pensions should be handled differently than those of other public employees. During a Monday meeting of the legislature’s Public Pension Oversight Board, state Rep. James…
