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Fayette Health Department conducts thousands of restaurant inspections each year

Dining out is a way of life for many Kentuckians. And with the upcoming December holidays looming, that could even increase eating away from home. The health department inspection scores of eating establishments are routinely found on the department's website.

Central Kentucky food bank serves 7000 households Thanksgiving food baskets

Central Kentucky’s best-known agency for meeting hunger head-on along with hundreds of volunteers is working to see a Thanksgiving table ripe with traditional food items in thousands of households.

City of Lexington encouraging safe disposal of cooking oil this holiday season

The Thanksgiving holiday often brings with it all kinds of leftovers. The City of Lexington has a suggestion for a different kind of leftover. The annual Gobble Grease Toss will be held Friday for those families that fry up turkeys this week.

Lexington Affordable Housing Manager Rick McQuady Presents Before the Council Committee 11-14-23

Lexington affordable housing head says need for additional units remains significant

The man who oversees the City of Lexington’s affordable housing program says there continues to be a tremendous need for more units. Affordable Housing Manager Rick McQuady presented an update to a City Council committee last week.

Triple A of the Bluegrass looking for some of the biggest Thanksgiving holiday travel numbers in two decades

Triple A is predicting Thanksgiving holiday travel this week may be the third-highest figure since 2001. About 16% of Kentucky’s population is expected to take a journey.

Eddie Campbell, president of the Kentucky Education Association, is pleased with the recent strike-down of Senate Bill 7, which prevented some public sector unions — but not others — from collecting union dues through automatic payroll deduction.

Kentucky Education Association cheers strike-down of law that made collecting dues more difficult for some unions

The Kentucky Education Association is celebrating a decision by a Franklin County circuit judge to strike down a state law that prevented public sector unions like the KEA from collecting dues through payroll deduction.

Lexington City Councilmember Preston Worley says Mayor Linda Gorton's Sept. 4 letter to members of a committee advising the Planning Commission on expansion of the city's urban service boundary is an attempt to steer them towards a smaller expansion.

Lexington Councilmember Worley calls Gorton letter to advisory committee an attempt to influence them towards lower USB expansion figure

A letter from Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton to the committee advising the Planning Commission on expanding the city’s urban service boundary has raised the eyebrows of at least one city council member.

People initially lined up to speak to members of the Urban Growth Management Advisory Committee. Fire code regulations then prompted the chair to call speakers one by one to the podium

Maps detailing proposed expansion around Lexington prompt heavy public comment

When the topic is when and where to grow around Lexington, it often results in significant public comment. Such was the case Tuesday night when the Urban Growth Management Advisory Committee took testimony about five areas under expansion consideration.

Lexington Council's Public Works Committee

Lexington city leaders get briefed on road work communication efforts

The traditional road work season is often considered to be from springtime through the summer months. It’s not uncommon for this infrastructure work to require lane closures.

Fish and Wildlife officers use a scoring system to determine the civil penalty against deer and elk poachers.

KY Fish and Wildlife seeking $12,000-plus in civil penalties against two deer poachers

Kentucky’s Fish and Wildlife Resources Department wants two men who were convicted in deer-poaching cases last year to pay a total of more than 12-thousand dollars in civil fines.

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