Harrods-Creek News

Work started two weeks ago on long-anticipated repairs to the bridge over Harrods Creek on River Road, but now that work has stopped indefinitely.

On July 2, crews were in the process of repairing the Harrods Creek Bridge in Prospect.

The reason 5-year-old Nick Stahlman is happy to be in summer camp at St. Francis preschool is pretty simple.

Work has begun to repair and widen Harrods Creek Bridge, despite objections from a local conservation group that contends the construction degrades the bridge's historic quality.

A new, two lane Harrods Creek Bridge should be complete by the end of the year. Renovations began Wednesday morning on the historic span on River Road.

River Fields, a local historic preservation and conservancy group, remains opposed the city's idea to expand the historic one-lane bridge over Harrods Creek to two lanes.

In another attempt to stop Louisville from widening the historic one-lane Harrods Creek Bridge, the preservation group River Fields has sued the U.S. Coast Guard.

Debra Scott was filing paperwork one afternoon last month when she began to feel warm and light-headed. She told a firefighter at the Harrods Creek Fire Department where she works that she wasn't feeling well, and 'next thing I know, I've got five firefighters in my office,' she said.

As a rainstorm rages outside, the pool clubhouse of The Harbor at Harrods Creek is bustling as the Jerdan family prepares for a graduation party.

The Louisville Water Company wants more than 20,000 customers to boil their water after a massive water main break Wednesday.

About 20,000 Louisville Water Co. customers, concentrated in the Prospect area, have been put under a boil-water advisory after a 60-inch main broke late yesterday morning.

After a fatal motorcycle accident last week closed three lanes of U.S. 42 in Prospect, Harrods Creek firefighters on a medical run needed the only open lane, leaving traffic at a standstill.

The historic one-lane bridge over Harrod's Creek has been part of the east end landscape for decades, but controversy over deterioration and its single lane could change that landscape forever.

The Harrods Creek Bridge has been closed for nearly six months. Clearly this was not even close to being a 'shovel-ready' project.

Following the fatal accident on U.S. Hwy 42 Friday morning, WHAS11 received lots of calls from residents in the Prospect area.

A weather system that killed at least two people as it moved across several Southern states yesterday caused severe thunderstorms with rotating clouds, large hail and one house fire in the Louisville area.

Elkhorn Creek in Franklin County is arguably the state's most productive smallmouth bass stream, but it's hardly the only one.

An early morning fire damaged a home in the 700 block of Indian Ridge Road in eastern Jefferson County, a MetroSafe Communications supervisor said, adding that she was not aware of any injuries.

It took how many years to paint the Kennedy Bridge? I think it was 10! How many years will it take to fix the guard rail on the Harrods Creek Bridge? It has now been four months and counting; what will it take to get the state or city to do something, much less the right thing? For the city to do something, I guess it would take the Cordish ...

After three years of work, a master plan for the town of Brownsboro in central Oldham County is a step closer to being finalized.