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LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Fayette County Public Schools board has scheduled a special meeting for March 4 after meeting in closed session for nearly two hours Monday night, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. Board chairman Tyler Murphy declined to say what was discussed in the closed session but announced the special meeting would take place…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — VisitLex, Lexington’s publicly funded convention and visitors bureau, ran up roughly $25,000 in limousine charges over six months. It routed $40,000 in lobbying fees through an employee credit card. It dropped $2,466 at Liquor Barn in a single visit and hired an out-of-state wardrobe stylist for nearly $2,000 — all with…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A federal grand jury has indicted the executive director of the Stanford Housing Authority on 14 felony counts, accusing her of forging board documents, funneling tens of thousands of dollars in public money into her personal bank account and charging personal expenses to the agency’s credit card over a nearly two-year…

Tourism bureau’s president received $58,000 bonus on top of $282,536 salary; four employees again out-earn the mayor LEXINGTON, Ky. — VisitLex, the publicly funded tourism bureau for the Bluegrass region, distributed $155,816.87 in bonuses to eight employees during fiscal year 2025, according to compensation records obtained by the Lexington Times through the Kentucky Open…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Lexington’s Planning Commission got its first look Thursday at a sweeping zoning ordinance rewrite designed to ensure the development standards laid out in the city’s Urban Growth Master Plan survive the shift to ministerial review under state law, while also receiving updates on a newly signed growth management ordinance, proposed floodplain…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Lexington’s Board of Architectural Review on Wednesday approved construction of a new free-standing residence on a vacant lot at 493 West Fifth Street in the Fayette Park historic district, overriding staff objections to the home’s attached garage in a decision the board called a model for future urban infill projects. The…

Tourism bureau now requesting 60 business days to produce credit card records, pushing disclosure past public hearings on proposed hotel assessment LEXINGTON, Ky. — VisitLex, the publicly funded tourism bureau for the Bluegrass region, is asking for 60 business days to hand over two years of credit card statements and expense reports — a…

Records show state office referred complaint to local government, which outsourced review to the agency’s own auditors and attorneys LEXINGTON, Ky. — When a citizen filed a complaint with the Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts alleging that the Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau paid $284,000 in potentially unconstitutional bonuses using public tax revenue, the…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Lexington police officer resigned in January after the chief of police recommended he be fired over three separate disciplinary complaints that documented a hit-and-run collision in his cruiser, chronic tardiness to court and a string of on-duty missteps that included mishandling a possible sexual assault call, according to internal records.…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Lexington police officer resigned at the end of January after the department’s Disciplinary Review Board recommended he be fired for secretly recording a meeting with supervisors and then lying about it, according to internal records obtained by this outlet. Officer Jacob A. Sharp, a member of the Bureau of Patrol…