Source: City of Lexington Mayor’s Office

Lexington officials opened Wellington Park Apartments, a 45-unit affordable housing development for seniors near Wellington Dog Park. The project, developed by AU Associates Inc., is the city’s first affordable housing initiative in the Ninth Council District and its first fully ADA-accessible affordable housing project.

Kentucky basketball’s 2026-27 schedule is finalized, featuring three exhibition games and a challenging slate of opponents highlighted by contests against Kansas in the Champions Classic and North Carolina at Madison Square Garden.

Boulware Mission in Owensboro is expanding recovery housing and treatment services with renovations and additional transitional living capacity, supported by a $50,000 contribution from PMI U.S.

Transylvania University welcomed its largest incoming class in recent years, with 290 new students averaging a 3.96 high school GPA.

Twenty residents spoke on Flock Safety’s license plate readers at Thursday’s Urban County Council meeting: 17 asked the city to cancel its $1.6 million contract, three from the East End asked it to keep the cameras. Before comment opened, 4th District Council member Emma Curtis said she would have voted against the program and…

Lexington residents debate steep housing prices amid market growth, react to new war memorial with mixed views, swap tips on avoiding auto service overcharges, and prepare for tonight’s partial lunar eclipse.

The Kentucky Education and Labor Cabinet has announced public meetings for September covering education and workforce development policy matters, with sessions open to both in-person and virtual attendance.

Frederick Douglass and Lexington Catholic each earned volleyball victories Thursday night, while Henry Clay’s boys soccer team won at Paul Laurence Dunbar to remain undefeated.

A judge vacated the murder convictions of two Louisville men who say they were wrongfully imprisoned for the 2015 beating and burning death of Eddie Vinson, but they remain jailed awaiting prosecutors’ decision on whether to appeal, retry the case or dismiss charges.

Thirty-six young Kentuckians have graduated from the third annual Kentucky State Police Youth Academy, a weeklong program designed to introduce 16- and 17-year-olds to law enforcement careers through leadership training and hands-on demonstrations.