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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Lexington recorded seven more traffic fatalities and 54 more serious injuries than its safety goals called for last year, the region’s transportation planning body learned this week, even as staff raised pointed questions about whether the governor’s recommended state highway plan would help close that gap. The Lexington Area Metropolitan Planning…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A proposed resort-style hotel and entertainment complex at the Red Mile drew a postponement from Lexington’s Technical Review Committee after staff flagged concerns that the project’s commercial square footage exceeds what the zoning ordinance allows before mixed-use components are built. The Red Mile mixed-use development, planned for 101 Windback Way, would…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Members of Lexington’s Rural Land Management Board voiced strong reservations about large-scale solar installations on agricultural land during their February meeting, even as a draft zoning amendment that would allow such projects with a “dual use” provision advances through the Urban County Council’s committee process. Councilmember Hil Boone, who sits on…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Austin Simms, the longtime executive director of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Housing Authority, announced his retirement last week after leading the agency for nearly five decades, closing a chapter that reshaped the city’s approach to public housing. Simms made the announcement Thursday, Feb. 19, at the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners’…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council moved forward Tuesday with a ground lease for a 357-acre solar farm on the former Haley Pike Landfill, though several council members pressed for a better deal and voted to require a separate council approval of any community benefits agreement tied to the project. The work…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Two Lexington property managers who federal prosecutors say sexually harassed female tenants for more than two decades will pay $850,000 and are permanently barred from managing rental properties or having any contact with tenants under a sweeping settlement agreement filed in federal court this week. The U.S. Department of Justice announced…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Thirteen of Lexington’s largest hotels could soon charge guests a 2 percent surcharge on room bills under a proposed tourism improvement district pitched to the Urban County Council’s Budget, Finance and Economic Development Committee on Tuesday. The proposal, presented by VisitLex and national consulting firm Civitas, would create a management district…

FRANKFORT — Kentucky House lawmakers issued subpoenas Monday seeking budget and employee health plan information from the Beshear administration, escalating a months-long dispute over data legislators say is necessary to complete the state’s next two-year spending plan. The subpoenas were authorized by the co-chairs of the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee and directed to…

A new report finds 268,000 utility disconnections in a single year as residential electricity rates have risen 128% since 2001. Hundreds of Kentuckians say their winter bills are the highest they’ve ever seen. LEXINGTON, Ky. — When Hali Jane Rossi opened her Kentucky Utilities bill last month, she sobbed. A single mother who had…