A new report shows just how far Appalachia has fallen behind the rest of the country on key health measures such as rates of cancer, heart disease and infant mortality. Researchers say the region’s health gap is growing and they hope the data they’ve compiled will spur new approaches to health care. The 400-page report from the Robert…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WYMT) – In state political news, Senate Democrats have chosen a new minority whip, following the resignation of Senator Julian Carroll. The Lexington Herald Leader reports Sen. Dennis Parrett from Elizabethtown will serve in the position for the next legislative session. Democrats called for Carroll’s resignation last month after a news report that…
Kentucky has received more than $6.5 million in AmeriCorps federal funding for 23 programs with more than 800 total members, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) announced Tuesday.Most of the programs were funded through an annual grant competition by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), a federal agency that engages…
SOUTH UNION – The 2017-18 school year marks the 10th anniversary for The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science on the campus of Western Kentucky University. The junior and senior high school residential academy was established to allow gifted and highly motivated junior and senior Kentucky high school students to live, study and do research…
Some students at the University of Kentucky will have a chance to manage a portion of the school’s endowment.The program is part of the university’s new Master’s in Science in Finance. Nineteen students are enrolled in the program and the degree is the only one of its kind in the state. Undergraduate degrees in finance exist in Kentucky…
LOUISVILLE, KY. Inside the famed vaults at Fort Knox, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell held a 27-pound gold bar in his hands Monday as part of the first civilian delegation to see most of the country’s bullion reserves in more than 40 years. But being surrounded by more than $186 billion worth of gold was…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and federal Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday that tax reform envisioned by Republicans will unburden businesses and allow workers to receive wage increases. Mnuchin said that “over 80 percent of business taxes is born by the worker,” so cutting the corporate income tax rate will make companies more competitive…
After coming up a mere 2,201 votes shy out of the more than 950,000 ballots cast in the 2015 race for Attorney General, Sen. Whitney Westerfield has announced he will once again vie for the post. “Pretty excited about the idea of running again and showing people why I’m the best choice for the job,”…
The leaders in this small town said they wanted history to be preserved, not erased, so they piled into a car last summer for what they considered an important mission: to save a Confederate monument from possible destruction. The monument had stood in Louisville for 121 years — 70 feet tall, more than 100 tons…
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…