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Lexington’s oldest horse racing track is one of a handful of sites approved for sports wagering by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission Tuesday. The start date is September 7th.

At any one time, Kentucky Transportation Secretary Jim Gray said there are at least some 15 hundred road projects in the commonwealth’s highway plan.Motorists traveling across the Commonwealth this summer are likely to encounter some type of road project.

There’s no question the United States Congress is ripe with legislative experience. The question of how much experience is too much could be on the minds of some voters.

During a time when health care costs continue to rise, Lexington Council members have been advised the City’s health insurance strategy continues to work.

The official fall wildfire season doesn’t begin until the first of October, but dry conditions now can increase concern next month. Kentucky State Forester Brandon Howard said the weather service office this week alerted the Division of Forestry of abnormally dry conditions around Pine Mountain.

Governor Andy Beshear took a break from co-hosting the annual Appalachian Regional Commission meeting in Ashland Monday to make nearly $4 million dollars' worth of grant announcements in Greenup County.

Huie Kin made his way from China to the United States in 1868. He later married Louise Van Arnam, overcoming opposition from her Dutch-American family. Their descendants form a clan that celebrates the Great Melting Pot.

Delta and Northwest's merger would create the world's largest airline in terms of traffic. But there is still a lot to be worked out. Regulators and shareholders need to be convinced. And Northwest's pilots union is saying it will do everything it can to block the deal.

The Federal Reserve slashed the federal funds rate, charged on overnight loans between banks, by one-half a percentage point to 4.75 percent. Wall Street investors were happy. But for average people, the cut doesn't translate into that much money in their pockets.

Doctors in Boston say Sen. Ted Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, the apparent cause of the seizure he suffered on Saturday. Kennedy has been resting at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital since suffering the seizure at his Cape Cod home.