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FRANKFORT, Ky. — Secretary of State Michael Adams signed House Bill 1 on Monday, officially enrolling Kentucky in a new federal education tax credit program created by Congress as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The legislation enables Kentucky to opt into a federal initiative that offers a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The University of Kentucky Police Department is honoring the service, sacrifice and dedication of law enforcement professionals across the country during National Police Week, which runs May 10-16, according to a university news release. The UKPD, which includes police officers, communications officers, security officers and professional staff, works to ensure a…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Urban County Council’s Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee will review a draft design manual Tuesday aimed at implementing Lexington’s Complete Streets policy, according to CivicLex. The committee meeting at 1 p.m. in the Government Center’s Council Chamber represents the latest step in a years-long effort to reimagine Lexington’s streets…

A Kentucky childcare advocacy organization is deploying an $8 million grant to strengthen rural childcare and early education services across Appalachian Kentucky, according to WUKY 91.3 FM. The initiative addresses a critical shortage in the childcare workforce across eastern Kentucky’s rural communities, where providers have struggled with low wages, limited resources, and staffing challenges.…

By Sarah Ladd, Kentucky Lantern · May 11, 2026 Election Day at the Scott County Public Library precinct in Georgetown, Kentucky, on Nov. 5, 2024. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Arden Barnes) Kentuckians in the 6th Congressional District will soon choose the candidates they want to face off in the general election this November and…

By Linda Blackford, Kentucky Lantern · May 11, 2026 A sign on the University of Kentucky campus says “Shared Governance” outside of the College of Law in September 2025. (Kentucky Lantern photo by McKenna Horsley) Last week, the University of Kentucky ended its first big public-private partnership by severing its contract with Aramark for…

By Liam Niemeyer, Kentucky Lantern · May 11, 2026 An aerial view shows an Amazon data center last year in Ashburn, Va. A An aerial view shows an Amazon data center last year in Ashburn, Va. In Kentucky, the fight over data centers is spurring local fights and political activity. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty…

Save the Children Federation will use an $8 million grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission to grow the region’s childcare and early education workforce in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia through training, credentialing, apprenticeships and technical assistance. According to Public News Service, the initiative targets rural childcare providers facing persistent obstacles to maintain and…

The Glaze is a Lexington Times column highlighting people who quietly do the unsexy civic work that makes this city function. This week: the permaculturalist who spent six years going to advisory boards nobody else wanted to attend, and then planted Kentucky’s largest public food forest on a Cardinal Valley floodplain the city had…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Mayor Linda Gorton raised more money in a single afternoon last week than she had in any month before April, the final pre-primary campaign-finance reports show, with eight checks from the Goodman family of Mt. Brilliant Farm and adjacent Rosenstein-family relatives totaling $15,200 in deposits dated May 4. The same reports…