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The Water Quality Fees Board is scheduled to meet July 23 to select awardees for FY 2027 neighborhood and education grants funded through Lexington’s Water Quality Management Fee.

The massive surge in proposed data centers is prompting intense debates about their costs and benefits. One question emerging across the country is whether and to what extent states should subsidize data centers with public tax dollars. These concerns are growing as tech companies look to locate data centers all over the country and…

The Urban County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on July 23 to consider multiple zoning amendments and subdivision proposals, including a 28-lot residential subdivision and a commercial zone change. Both major items have received postponement recommendations from planning committees.

Like two sides of a coin imprinted with the nation’s motto, “e pluribus unum” — out of many, one — America’s political factions are cast in opposition, but they are intrinsically bound together as parts of a larger whole. From the beginning, the United States has aspired to build a more perfect union. When our…

Fayette County Public Schools is facing a projected budget deficit for the fiscal year, with district officials warning that additional cuts will be necessary to balance finances.

The Trump administration has a new plan for teenagers learning about pregnancy: Beginning this summer, it will steer millions of dollars toward organizations that focus on anatomy, fertility tracking, hormonal production and “reproductive goals counseling.” The plan will also emphasize abstinence from sex and the importance of marriage.  In doing so, it will pivot…

Woodford County recorded Kentucky’s lowest unemployment rate at 4.5% in June, while the state’s overall jobless rate rose to 4.7%, according to preliminary data released by the Education and Labor Cabinet.

Lexington residents are debating the city’s housing and tourism priorities, with strong views on short-term rentals versus permanent apartments downtown, while others share serious maintenance complaints from apartment complexes and seek social connections.

Business leaders from Lexington and Louisville are partnering for a Washington, D.C. delegation trip to advocate for regional federal priorities, marking a unified approach between the two Kentucky metros.

In the 1930s, as Harlan County, Kentucky, erupted into one of the most violent labor conflicts in American history, a quiet reality was unfolding two hundred miles to the west. In Crittenden County, men went into the ground every morning to dig fluorspar—a mineral essential to building the steel for Allied ships, the aluminum…