Source: Fayette County Public Schools

Rise STEM Academy for Girls officially opened its new state-of-the-art building on Aug. 3, featuring flexible collaborative spaces designed to serve 900 students and located at the intersection of Mason Headley and Versailles Road in Lexington.

Kentucky is now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 U.S. Senate Youth Program, which will select two high school juniors or seniors to attend an intensive week-long program in Washington, D.C., in March 2026.

Residents discussed Gov. Beshear’s sassy response to Rand Paul at Fancy Farm, debated environmental concerns about AI data centers coming to Lexington, spotted vintage WWII aircraft, and fielded relocation questions from prospective newcomers.

Dr. Crystal Miller, Commissioner of Health for the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department, has been named to the University of Kentucky College of Public Health’s 2026 Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Leader.

New Kentucky football coach Will Stein opened fall camp Monday emphasizing process and competition as the Wildcats prepare for their season opener. Stein addressed recent comments about his confidence in the program and highlighted key players working back into practice.

Paducah Mayor George Bray calls the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in McCracken County the ideal site for a hyperscale data center.  When the plant was enriching uranium, initially for the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons and then for nuclear power plant fuel, it had the ability to use over 3 gigawatts of power…

As politicians in Washington D.C. and Dr. Anthony Fauci butted heads over the latter’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, a nonpartisan commission — which includes a former Kentucky governor — is pushing for better relationships between elected and public health officials.  The “Good Health is Good Governance” toolkit, released in July, challenges leaders to…

WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not planning an aggressive campaign at voting sites during the upcoming midterm elections, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday in response to a States Newsroom inquiry about a letter from U.S. Senate Democrats voicing concerns about armed federal agents at polling places. ICE, an agency…

Editor’s Note: One of Kentucky’s most familiar faces is leaving our television screens. Renee Shaw has announced she is retiring from Kentucky Educational Television, where for the past 29 years she has covered innumerable stories, anchored thousands of shows, interviewed hundreds of people, and overall, brought Kentucky’s public policy issues into our homes and…