By STU JOHNSON The Kentucky legislature is considering imposing a new fee paid by ambulance providers across the state. It’s an assessment these same emergency medical service entities support. Jim Duke with the Kentucky Ambulance Providers Association said the 5 and a half percent fee would be assessed on emergency revenues coming into ambulance services. Duke…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to help people with opioid and alcohol addictions to get prescription drugs to treat their substance-use disorders — the recognized standard of drug treatment — passed unanimously out of committee last week and now heads to the full House. House Bill 389, sponsored by Rep. Kim Moser,…
By WBKO News Staff WASHINGTON, DC (WBKO) – Second District U.S.Congressman Brett Guthrie from Bowling Green is the senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health, and Republican leader of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Wednesday he questioned U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and other senior administration officials…
By WKYT News Staff BREMEN, Ky. (WKYT) – A small earthquake was registered in Western Kentucky Thursday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude 2.6 quake was centered about four miles southwest of Bremen, Ky. in Muhlenberg County. According to the USGS, earthquakes this small rarely cause significant damage.
By Jordan Whitaker ELLIOT COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT)- Kentucky Republicans jumped on Governor Andy Beshear’s decision to speak at a statewide LGBTQ rally last week, according to a report from the Lexington Herald-Leader. In a video shared to the Rowan County Republicans Facebook page by Representative-elect Richard White, State Senator Phillip Wheeler (R-Pikeville) was shown telling White’s supporters…
By Ryan Van Velzer The proposed sale of land to build a new middle school in southeast Louisville places the needs of Jefferson County Public Schools at odds with efforts to protect the Floyds Fork watershed. Development is well underway in the last undeveloped corridor of Jefferson County where new subdivisions and five acre-properties abut streams,…
By ASSOCIATED PRESS A political committee linked to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says it’s funding ads designed to meddle in next month’s North Carolina Democratic Senate primary. New campaign finance documents show the Senate Leadership Fund provided nearly $3 million to the Faith and Power PAC, which is running commercials backing Senate candidate Erica Smith.…
BY JOE RAGUSA KENTUCKY FRANKFORT, Ky. – A group of business leaders want lawmakers to increase the gas tax. The Kentucky Infrastructure Coalition spoke to lawmakers on the House Budget Review Subcommittee on Transportation Monday, urging them to find more funding for road projects, including a rise in the motor fuel tax. Supporters said a new infrastructure bill…
By Allison Baker | BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) — According to Representative Patti Minter, one in four Kentuckians are living with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Those who live with diabetes rely on insulin which in recent years has become increasingly more expensive. Earlier this week, a bill passed in The Kentucky House that would cap the…
J. Russell Lloyd speaks with WDRB News during a 2017 interview. Lloyd , the leader of Louisville’s Democratic Party, died Sunday at age 50, the party announced in a news release. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The man who helped lead Democrats in Jefferson County to historic wins in 2018 and 2019 has died. J. Russell…
