Wildlife officials in Kentucky say people can go online to report suspected cases of a disease in dead or dying deer. Gabe Jenkins, big game coordinator for Kentucky’s fish and wildlife agency, says officials will use the reports to create maps to show the extent of the disease’s spread. The digital form is available at…
Mayor Greg Fischer has announced that Louisville has filed a federal lawsuit against three major opioid companies. “We have a lost generation of people addicted to opiates, and many have now migrated to heroin,” Fischer said in a Monday press release. “Wholesale Distributors need to be held accountable for this epidemic by cleaning up the mess…
A Feeding America study shows the percentage of senior Kentuckians who are food insecure is higher than the national average. Almost 10% of Kentuckians 60 or older didn’t have reliable access to a sufficient quantity of nutritious food in 2015. Kentucky Association of Food Banks Director Tamara Sandberg says going without food can adversely affect…
ERLANGER – Diana O’Toole has committed her career to healthy living. For O’Toole, the new Kenton County Alliance coordinator, the key to healthy living is early education about drug and substance abuse. “We have to meet this generation with education to prevent them from even trying drugs,” she said. According to O’Toole, drug abuse destroys lives…
The country’s newest Republican governor is, like President Donald Trump, a billionaire businessman, a political outsider, and a fan of the coal industry. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, a former coal company owner, was elected as a Democrat but switched parties with a surprise announcement at a Trump rally in West Virginia. Both Trump and…
Roughly 42,000 students headed back to Fayette County Public Schools Wednesday. Kentucky transportation officials reminded all drivers to slow down in school zones, obey warning flashers on buses and never pass a bus on undivided highways when the stop arm is extended, and drive carefully. Hundreds of buses will be sharing roadways with work-day commuters…
This week Dr. Greg talks with Dr. Fran Hardin and Dr. Lee Anne Walmsley of the UK College of Nursing about their 24 month Med Vet option, in which service veterans with medical experience are getting credit for that experience when going to nursing school.
This week Dr. Greg talks with Dr. Fran Hardin and Dr. Lee Anne Walmsley of the UK College of Nursing about their 24 month Med Vet option, in which service veterans with medical experience are getting credit for that experience when going to nursing school. CREDIT UK COLLEGE OF NURSING Listen Listening… 0:00 Listen
EDMONTON – Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton visited Metcalfe County High School on Friday to discuss the 2018 Lt. Governor’s Entrepreneurship Challenge. Over 700 students and 135 teams participated in the challenge last year, according to a document about the program. The challenge awarded $80,000 in scholarships. “It’s an entrepreneur challenge for anyone grades 9-12,” MCHS…
The 2017 Kentucky State Fair opens on Thursday and continues through August 27th in Louisville, and one thing on the mind of fair goers and officials is ride safety in light of the recent tragedy at the Ohio State Fair in which one person was killed and seven others injured when a midway ride broke…