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Imagination Library resolution advances February 24, 2026 Senate Minority Whip Cassie Chambers Armstrong, D-Louisville, testifies Tuesday on Senate Joint Resolution 54 in support of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library during a Senate Families and Children Committee meeting. A high-resolution photo can be found here. FRANKFORT — — Reading can open doors for young people that…

Committee advances bill on machine gun conversion devices February 24, 2026 House Majority Whip Jason Nemes, R-Middletown, speaks on House Bill 299 during Tuesday’s meeting of the House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee. A high-res version is available here. FRANKFORT — Legislation that would make it a class C felony to possess…

A new report finds 268,000 utility disconnections in a single year as residential electricity rates have risen 128% since 2001. Hundreds of Kentuckians say their winter bills are the highest they’ve ever seen. LEXINGTON, Ky. — When Hali Jane Rossi opened her Kentucky Utilities bill last month, she sobbed. A single mother who had…

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. (Feb. 24, 2026) — The University of Kentucky is well-represented on a list of the most-cited researchers in the world. In a database compiled by Stanford University in a partnership with Elsevier, 112 current UK scientists and scholars appear among the top 2% of the most-cited researchers across 22 disciplines. Citations are one measure of the impact of…

Video produced by UK Public Relations and Strategic Communications and UK Marketing and Brand Strategy. To view captions for this video, push play and click on the CC icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. If using a mobile device, click on the “thought bubble” in the same area. LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 24, 2026) — Long…

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…

By Dr. Nouran SorourUniversity of Kentucky February is American Heart Month, a reminder that heart health is built through the small, everyday choices we make. Many heart disease risk factors can be reduced through healthy habits. This Heart Month, focus on realistic, sustainable steps that support a stronger heart for you and your family.…

By Sarah LaddKentucky Lantern This story discusses child abuse. Report child abuse to Kentucky’s Statewide Child Abuse Hotline at 1-877-597-233. Kentucky’s poison control line is 800-222-1222.  Kentucky children are increasingly ingesting and overdosing on unsafe substances like cannabinoids and fentanyl, with the rate increasing by more than 100% in the last five years, a…

By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News The Kentucky Department for Public Health issued two alerts in Christian County after nine suspected nonfatal drug overdose Emergency Medical Services encounters occurred between Feb. 15 and Feb. 20. The encounters were reported through the Overdose Detection Mapping Application System and “represent an unusually high number of suspected nonfatal…