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Performance review data shared with education committee August 19, 2025 Committee Co-Chair Sen. Stephen West, R-Paris, speaks during Monday’s meeting of the Interim Joint Committee on Education. A high-resolution photo can be found here. FRANKFORT — Lawmakers on the Interim Joint Committee on Education heard from Kentucky’s auditor of public accounts Monday about performance…

Kentucky Health News August is National Eye Exam Month, and state officials are encouraging Kentuckians to prioritize their eye health by making an appointment with their eye doctor. “Regular eye exams are an important part of taking care of your overall health, regardless of your age, so you can catch problems early and correct…

By Brooke HudspethUniversity of Kentucky Most people have likely heard about the new weight-loss and diabetes management drugs called Ozempic and Mounjaro, which are also called GLP-1 medications, short for glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists, but they may not have heard about their side effects. While those more commonly known brands of these medications are relatively…

Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Association of Health Plans is hosting its fifth annual vaccination pop-up clinic at the Kentucky State Fair and, while supplies last, will give away a Kroger gift card to those who receive a flu shot. KAHP is the trade association representing commercial health insurers and Medicaid managed-care organizations in…

Saint Joseph Hospital is alerting the community about a phone scam involving calls that appear to originate from the hospital’s phone numbers. These calls are not from the hospital and are part of a widespread scam known as “caller ID spoofing,” where bad actors manipulate caller ID to display a legitimate organization’s phone number,…

The state’s opioid commission is changing the way it tracks how millions in opioid settlement money are being spent, and Morgan Watkins with Louisville Public Media talked to the opioid commission’s executive director, Chris Evans, about the changes. The Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission was created in 2021by the legislature to distribute the state’s…

Registration for the 2025 Kentucky Opioid Symposium is now open. The symposium, hosted by the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission, will be held at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville on Oct. 13-14. Tickets for the two-day symposium are $50, and sales end Sept. 19. Click here to register and to see the…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 18, 2025) — Earlier this summer, 10 students and three faculty members from the University of Kentucky College of Design and the Department of Landscape Architecture in the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment traveled to New Orleans for Design Futures Forum (DFF) 2025, a yearly national public interest design student leadership…

As the state’s flagship, land-grant institution, the University of Kentucky exists to advance the Commonwealth. We do that by preparing the next generation of leaders — placing students at the heart of everything we do — and transforming the lives of Kentuckians through education, research and creative work, service and health care. We pride ourselves…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 18, 2025) — The University of Kentucky’s Estate Whiskey Alliance® (EWA) has announced the first awardees of its research grant program. Research projects focus on agriculture, manufacturing and terroir (the interplay of environment, farming practices and raw material characteristics) to shape the future of estate whiskey production. Estate whiskey is produced entirely on…