Curtis Tate
ReporterCurtis Tate is a reporter at WEKU. He spent four years at West Virginia Public Broadcasting and before that, 18 years as a reporter and copy editor for Gannett, Dow Jones and McClatchy. He has covered energy and the environment, transportation, travel, Congress and state government. He has won awards from the National Press Foundation and the New Jersey Press Association. Curtis is a Kentucky native and a graduate of the University of Kentucky.
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Brian Neudorff, with the National Weather Service in Louisville, said forecasters try to get alerts out as soon as they can, but sometimes the water rises too fast. -
Acciona Energia says it will begin construction on a 235-megawatt solar farm in Fleming County, with the goal of making it operational by 2028. -
Darryl Lawson and Richard Walker live on the upper floors of a brick apartment building between downtown Richmond and Eastern Kentucky University inundated in Saturday's flood event. -
Richmond and Madison County emergency crews are reportedly conducting water rescues. -
Knott, Perry and Wolfe counties are the latest recipients of grants from the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization Fund. -
Unemployment data released Thursday by the state show Madison has a relatively high unemployment rate among its Central Kentucky peers. -
Glasser, whose death was announced Tuesday by Bradley University in Illinois, where she became president after her time at EKU, was 75. -
All but three of Kentucky’s 54 Appalachian counties are either economically distressed or at risk of becoming economically distressed, according to the Appalachian Regional Commission. -
A federal judge has delayed 19-year-old Brailen Weaver’s murder trial indefinitely, according to a court order filed last week in Lexington. -
Maryland-based TeraWulf says the project will generate $300 million in local tax revenue in the first 15 years. That would not, however, include taxes on tenant server equipment inside the data center.
