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Tis the season for holiday parties, decorating and gifts, but that doesn’t have to mean more waste ending up in the landfill. Lexington invites you to celebrate Waste Reduction Week from Nov. 8-16. Join us for events, tips and even tours about prioritizing the “reduce” in reduce, reuse and recycle.    Lexington and its…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 5, 2025) — The University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities is now accepting applications for the 2026-28 cohort of Gaines Fellows, one of the university’s most prestigious undergraduate opportunities for academic enrichment, leadership and community engagement. The Gaines Fellowship in the Humanities is a two-year program designed to enrich undergraduates’ study at UK. Fellowships are awarded in recognition…

PRINCETON, Ky. (Nov. 7, 2025) — The University of Kentucky Research and Education Center aims to optimize drone-based spray systems to improve access to effective management of foliar diseases in Kentucky cornfields. This multi-departmental effort of Plant Pathology and Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering at the UK Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment has completed year two…

Two people have been arrested following a disorder and robbery that occurred this afternoon.   On November 6, 2025, around 1:00 pm, officers were dispatched to the 100 block of Lackawanna Road for a disorder. When officers arrived, they learned that two suspects entered a construction area and began a disorder with individuals in…

The innovative initiative will generate major economic investments with qualified ready-to-work employees  FRANKFORT, Ky. (Nov. 6, 2025) – Today, members of the Beshear-Coleman administration joined Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) President Ryan Quarles to present to the General Assembly a vision for a specialized prison education and reentry campus, which would be…

Ciara Coleman has been named Opportunity Officer in the Office of Mayor Linda Gorton. “Ciara brings 10 years of experience at Toyota, where she developed a strong foundation in operational excellence and leadership,” Gorton said. “In the Mayor’s Office, she will focus on increasing opportunities and access to resources to remove barriers to prosperity…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 6, 2025) — Innovation thrives when collaboration sparks new ways of thinking. Research Communications partnered with UK Innovate to spotlight faculty innovators with life-changing ideas at the University of Kentucky in a video series, “I am a UK Innovator.” UK Innovate works collaboratively with innovators to strategically assess, protect and license early-stage technologies…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Delores Jordan, the owner of a Lexington sober-living company, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal kickback conspiracy, admitting she took payments in exchange for steering urine drug tests to outside labs that billed Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid more than $2.5 million, according to a signed plea agreement filed this…

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A Madison County man has pleaded guilty in federal court to impersonating a Homeland Security agent after he falsely claimed to be a federal officer in an attempt to equip his vehicle with police-style emergency lights and sirens, court records show. Roderick Anibel Tejeda entered the guilty plea Tuesday in U.S.…

Lawmakers, other partners unveil plan to reduce recidivism November 6, 2025 Rep. Jennifer Decker, R-Waddy, was joined by Kentucky Community and Technical College System President Ryan Quarles and others during Thursday’s Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary meeting to propose a new program to reduce recidivism. A high-res version is available here. FRANKFORT — A…