Kentucky News

Kentuckians don't have to worry about an onslaught of noisy cicadas this year, though experts say they're about to emerge in the Northeast.

Mike Lawrence/The Gleaner Rust shows through a steel beam on the northbound twin bridge span.

May 19, 2013 - SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Drummer Bob Holz will appear at Sterling Folk Festival in Sterling ,NY. Friday,May 24th at 3:00 PM ET.

Morehead State University Police Department has received its fourth, five-year certificate of accreditation by the Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police .

Summer Applause ground her way to the lead in the stretch in the $148,500 Allaire DuPont Distaff Stakes Presented by Toyota, then held off Sea Island for a two-length win May 18 at Pimlico Race Course.

Joseph Boggs' vision is so impaired that it is as if he is looking through two straws.

Two more Kentucky cities have been certified by the state as cultural districts, bringing the total number to six.

My wife and I search each year for Old Fashioned June Apples, the kind that makes such wonderful apple butter and apple sauce.

Top-seeded Kennedy Womack was eliminated in the semifinals of the State Tournament on Saturday at the University of Kentucky tennis courts.

Former Kentucky Democratic Party Chairman Bill Garmer said Friday he is considering running for the U.S. Senate next year if Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes declines to enter the race against Republican incumbent Mitch McConnell.

Thanks to Ray O'Brien for forwarding this news from Biddy Hayes: The Berea Bluegrass Band from Kentucky will play the Church of Ireland in Bruff, Co.

New Albany Police Chief Sherri Knight said severe mental illness is what led to New Albany resident Jaime Clutter to drown her two children, then herself, in Falling Run Creek on March 13.

A member of Gov. Steve Beshear's cabinet, Tourism, Arts and Heritage Secretary Marcheta Sparrow, is retiring at the end of May.

The cities of Bardstown and Maysville have joined the list of official Kentucky Cultural Districts, bringing the total number of state-certified communities to six.

To some observers, Jarvis Williams would seem to be the ideal tenure-track professor.

Kentucky's poet laureate is fulfilling a childhood dream by getting behind the wheel of a bookmobile in his hometown.

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander told a top U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official at a budget hearing today that he would restrict the Corps' ability to transfer new funds to projects if it doesn't abandon "unreasonable" fishing restrictions that amount to "thumbing your nose at elected officials," saying, "It sounds to me like we have a life jacket ... (more)

Morehead State University Police Department has received its fourth, five-year certificate of accreditation by the Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police .

This article caught me off guard as I read it in a Fox News.Com report stating political leaders in Kentucky had called a local retailer, the Urban Outfitters, to advise them to halt the sale of flasks, shot glasses and pint glasses because they look like real prescription pill bottles.

The Kentucky sports hero turned politician Farmer has pleaded not guilty to charges related to his management of the Department of Agriculture.