The head of Lexington’s water quality division says the local government is about halfway through the almost $600 million sewer system overhaul. The total bill could come in below that original estimate. Water Quality Division Head Charlie Martin says Kentucky’s new prevailing wage law is helping to generate project savings. Martin says two sewer projects…
William M. “Bill” Cox, a Democrat who served one term as a state representative and held a variety of other posts in state government, died Sunday. Cox was 75, according to an obituary posted by Barnett-Strother Funeral Home in Madisonville. Cox was a 1965 graduate of the University of Kentucky and worked in a variety…
Warren County has made progress in reducing the rate of teen births and youth incarcerated in the juvenile justice system, among other improvements, according to the 2017 Kids Count County Data Book released Tuesday. The release by Kentucky Youth Advocates offers the latest county-by-county data on 17 measures of child well-being across the areas of…
Could Eastern Kentucky University’s semi-private Model Laboratory School become Kentucky’s first charter school? The Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents passed a resolution Wednesday allowing the administration to submit an application for Model, Kentucky’s only remaining Pre-K thru 12 university laboratory school, to become a charter school. Since a law allowing public charter schools took…
Republican State Representative Kenny Imes of Murray said Wednesday he will not seek re-election to the 5th District seat and instead run for Calloway County Judge Executive. Imes said in a release he has “Always believed in term limits,” and that it is now time to come home and serve his fellow citizens in a…
JEFFERSONTOWN More children live in deep poverty in three of five Northeast Kentucky counties than five years ago, according to Kentucky Youth Advocates, a non-profit child advocacy organization. In all of the FIVCO counties — Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence and Elliott — there are more children whose households are teetering on the brink of poverty, according…
PULASKI COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT/WKYT) – The sudden loss of four Somerset residents left the Kentucky town in shock. A plane crash in Barren County on Sunday claimed the lives of attorney Scott Foster, his son, 15-year-old Noah Foster, Dr. Kyle Stewart, a local dentist, and Somerset Police chaplain Doug Whitaker. All four were well-known in the Somerset community.…
An Indiana company plans to spend between $70 and $100 million building a fiber-optic network that would make ultra high-speed gigabit internet service available throughout Lexington’s urban service area, city officials said Monday. “This will make Lexington the largest gigabit city in the country,” said Lexington Mayor Jim Gray. Gigabit speed is equivalent to transferring…
PIKEVILLE — Silicon Valley, meet Appalachian Mountains. In Eastern Kentucky, in the heart of rural Appalachia and amid the coal-dust remnants of the Industrial Revolution, a nascent digital revolution is taking shape. After the rapid decline of the coal industry, Eastern Kentuckians are attempting to diversify the region’s economy, but limited access to broadband internet…
The Kentucky State Police is struggling to keep pace with demands of the job due to a manpower shortage, an aging and high-mileage fleet, a lack of long guns and failing radio equipment.Statewide, the agency has about 840 sworn officers, only about 500 of whom are road troopers. The agency is considered fully staffed at…
