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Lexington health commissioner named to UK College of Public Health Hall of Fame
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.
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Stein Opens Fall Camp with Confidence, Competitive Approach
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.
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4 new immigration-detention habeas petitions filed in E.D. Kentucky
Four new federal habeas corpus petitions seeking review of immigration detention have been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
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Data centers need massive power. They’re eyeing Kentucky’s idle industrial sites to get it.
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…
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The Fauci-Paul battle shows real cracks in public health. One group has answers.
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…
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Trump administration rules out mass ICE enforcement at the polls in midterms
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…
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Renee Shaw has no regrets (and plenty of gas left in the tank)
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…
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Wide-load truck clogs I-64 eastbound in Montgomery County
A wide-load commercial vehicle became temporarily stuck on I-64 eastbound at mile marker 105 in Montgomery County on August 3, blocking all lanes. The incident occurred in an active construction zone during a $19.6 million I-64 rehabilitation project.
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Construction timelines, Crave planning woes, and WWII planes in Lexington skies
Today on r/Lexington, residents discussed a tight housing market, longtime interstate construction nearing October completion, last weekend’s Crave Food Festival’s vendor shortfalls and digital-payment-only policy, visiting WWII aircraft, and the scarcity of pizza buffets.
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Eastern Kentucky health centers launch workforce training initiative
Community health centers in eastern Kentucky are launching workforce training programs to develop local talent and fill persistent healthcare staffing shortages in the region.