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Kentucky expert: Prioritize mental health as kids return to school
By Nadia Ramlagan Public News Service Around 700,000 Kentucky kids will return to school in a few weeks, and experts said it is important to prepare them for the transition. While it may include a trip to the store for notebooks and…
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Multiple efforts across Kentucky seek to attract doctors, interest students in healthcare careers
As the director of the Center for Interprofessional and Community Health Education at the University of Kentucky, James Ballard knows firsthand about the physician shortage in the state and the all-encompassing efforts to change it. “Oh, we…
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UK Alum Returns Home to Lead Somerset-Pulaski Chamber
Bobby Clue, a University of Kentucky alumnus, has become executive director of the Somerset-Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce, where he has grown the organization to over 1,300 members and established significant scholarship programs for local students.
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Rise STEM Academy for Girls opens state-of-the-art facility
Rise STEM Academy for Girls officially opened its new state-of-the-art building on Aug. 3, featuring flexible collaborative spaces designed to serve 900 students and located at the intersection of Mason Headley and Versailles Road in Lexington.
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Kentucky Opens Applications for 2026 U.S. Senate Youth Program
Kentucky is now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 U.S. Senate Youth Program, which will select two high school juniors or seniors to attend an intensive week-long program in Washington, D.C., in March 2026.
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Beshear trades barbs at Fancy Farm; residents debate data centers
Residents discussed Gov. Beshear’s sassy response to Rand Paul at Fancy Farm, debated environmental concerns about AI data centers coming to Lexington, spotted vintage WWII aircraft, and fielded relocation questions from prospective newcomers.
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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…