Source: Lane Report (KY Business)

Kentucky wins Area Development’s Silver Shovel Award for the second consecutive year, recognizing major economic development achievements in 2025 including investments from Apple, Ford, General Matter and others that totaled $10.5 billion.

Lexington’s fiscal 2026 revenue is tracking just 1 percent away from budget as the June 30 year-end approaches, with underlying economic growth of 4.8 percent despite tight overall projections.

The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council approved a tech internship pilot program and several other contracts during a June 23 work session, aiming to boost local technology employment while supporting services in corrections, environmental education, and crisis response.

Kentucky earned the Area Development Silver Shovel Award for the second consecutive year, recognizing its success attracting major economic development projects including battery manufacturing, food production, and logistics. The award highlights Kentucky’s emergence as the nation’s electric vehicle battery production capital.

Kentucky is in a housing crisis. We know this. Our state suffers a shortage of more than 200,000 homes and the vast majority of that gap is a lack of housing for low-income households or those who can only afford to pay $500 a month in rent. We know that people’s wages aren’t keeping…

The University of Kentucky Police Department hosted the Safer Kentucky Symposium, bringing together leaders from colleges, universities, hospitals and public safety agencies to strengthen coordinated emergency response across institutional boundaries.

Mylissa McNeill never expected to be a mother. But when she learned she was pregnant in the spring of 2022, at age 41, she and her partner were happy and excited at the prospect of parenting a little girl they planned to name Maeve. On June 24, 2022, about one month after McNeill discovered she was pregnant, the…

FRANKFORT – The latest finance report filed by Gov. Andy Beshear’s super PAC shows all of the signs of a campaign committee of a presidential candidate. It also discloses a big contribution from a first-time Beshear donor.  The political action committee is called In This Together PAC Inc., and the report it filed with…

Flash flooding from heavy rains dominated r/Lexington today, with residents sharing photos of submerged roads and cars while emergency crews conducted multiple water rescues across the city. Between the serious safety warnings and the humorous coping mechanisms, the community grappled with dangerous road conditions affecting Broadway, Harrodsburg Road, Press Avenue, and numerous other thoroughfares.

Kentucky Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell will not be voting this week following a recent hospitalization.