Fern Creek News

A new retirement community is planned for Fern Creek with 155 apartments and 52 townhomes, it developer announced today.

The homes built by Abe Gilbert in eastern Jefferson County don't look much different from their neighbors.

LAS GORDITAS, 4756 Bardstown Rd., 492-0112. The Las Gorditas taco stand rolls into the parking lot at Eastland Shopping Center just about every weekend evening.

By all accounts Justin Ennis is a pretty normal 18-year-old guy. He lives with his family in the Fern Creek area, just graduated from Manual High School and plans to go to University of Kentucky this fall.

Kentucky's minimum wage increases to $6.55 an hour Tuesday, and state officials say the change will give a pay boost to an estimated 68,000 of the state's lowest-paid workers.

Karen Taylor's eyes began to water. Her tears signified not sadness, but joy and triumph.

In today's business climate, it may seem that competition rains down from everywhere.

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A Louisville Metro Police Department commander has been exonerated of charges of sexual harassment and retaliation in an investigation by the department's professional-standards unit.

Two fires in southeast Jefferson County kept area firefighters busy early today, but no injuries were reported, a MetroSafe Communications supervisor said.

Janice Fisher can't wait to see what the new middle school across the highway from her home will look like when completed.

Louisville Metro Mayor Abramson announced Friday the completion of Phase 2 and start of Phase 3 of Project DRI, the Metro Government's Drainage Response Initiative.

After five years of work, Louisville officials say they are entering the final phase of developing a $56.4 million communications system in which all emergency responders in Jefferson County will be able to ...

It was the crumpled dollar dropped into a restaurant pickle jar. The $5 crammed into a firefighter's boot at an intersection.

Graduates of 58 high schools in the Louisville area have been awarded dictionaries at recent ceremonies by the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Kentuckiana, with the help of the Aegon Corporation.

The Blue Diamond Cafe will come back to life tomorrow just long enough to serve up some memories for the Leatherwood High School reunion in Louisville.

Since they serve families facing crisis situations, it appears Louisville's Community Ministries will escape budget cuts this year.

Outside Liberty High School yesterday morning, hundreds of police officers and school officials swarmed the parking lot.

Two months after a fire bomb was thrown into the bedroom of an apartment in the Norfolk neighborhood -- a bedroom where two children usually sleep -- arson investigators still have no leads.

Las Gorditas: Las Gorditas' fresh fare includes two tacos, carnitas and lengua, and a gordita.