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The Council on Postsecondary Education had approved campus diversity plans for the public four-year universities and the 16 colleges of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. The five-year plans aim to boost enrollment, retention and graduation rates of students, particularly underrepresented minorities and low-income students. The plans also promote workforce diversity and inclusive and…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Another bill has been filed in the Kentucky legislature that would bring about some form of legalized marijuana. Senate bill 188, filed last week, would allow for medical marijuana use in the Commonwealth. A similar measure, championed by Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, is also trying to make its way…

Kentuckians with mental and physical disabilities filled the halls of the state capital and annex Wednesday.  They were in Frankfort to lobby lawmakers for social service funding. For 18 years, hundreds of citizens with disabilities have participated in the 874-K rally. The event honors the needs of 874,000 people with challenges to activities of daily living.  Long- time…

A House committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would limit the Kentucky attorney general’s authority to hire outside lawyers to pursue expensive and complex lawsuits against corporations. House Bill 198 would cap the fees that outside lawyers could collect from such suits and give ultimate control over their hiring to the governor. The bill proceeds…

In a sharply worded rebuke, a Franklin Circuit Court judge delivered a blow to the Bevin administration’s efforts to cut environmental red tape. In a ruling made public Wednesday, Judge Phillip Shepherd overturned 2017 regulations that dramatically limited state and public involvement in what electric utilities must do to get permission to construct new landfills or ponds for…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 30, 2018) – For the third year in a row, Kentucky’s real estate market set new records in a number of areas despite inventory issues that kept many buyers on the sidelines for much of the year. Total home sales reached in 2017 were the highest ever recorded in the state at…

FRANKFORT. Ky. (WYMT) – Kentucky’s Secretary of State announced Tuesday that close to 100 women are seeking seats in Kentucky’s General Assembly. More than 550 candidates had filed with the Secretary of State for various offices on the primary election ballot for May 22, 2018, including more than 200 candidates for seats in the Kentucky House…

FRANKFORT — Three hundred Kentuckians filed to run for a seat in the Republican-dominated Kentucky General Assembly this year, with Democrats slightly outpacing their GOP counterparts in an election year that promises dozens of intense political battles. Hoping to ride a wave of discontent, 155 Democrats filed for a seat in the 100-member House or 38-member…

Bourbon distilleries in Kentucky are reporting a record number of visitors.  A statement from the Kentucky Distillers’ Association says nearly 1.2 million people visited distilleries along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail and Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour last year. That comes on the heels of a milestone in 2016, when visitors made more than 1 million…

Take a look at a few things that teachers object to in proposed pension reform in Kentucky. Mary Ann Gerth/Louisville Courier Journal Jan Taylor strolled into a classroom in Trimble County in her mid-20s and discovered she’d found her calling. Working with young children to get them ready to start school challenged and inspired her, and she loved…