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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

• Eastern Kentucky University announces a reduction in tuition for out-of-state students
• Critics say new state law limiting school staff-student communications creating unintended consequences
• Special judge in former Letcher County sheriff murder case weighs several defense motions
• Today's Interview
• Protestors in Richmond rally against Trump administration
• Bourbon County woman dedicated to helping adults with special needs
• How one rural Tennessee town pushed back over a proposed bitcoin mine and won
• FEMA denial of flood-related reimbursement could cost Letcher County schools $3 million
• Silica Dust Rule Likely Delayed Again, Court Filing Says
• Madison County leaders deciding how to fund 911 services
• New documentary looks at the lasting impacts of redlining in Lexington's Black communities
• New work-zone speeding law equipment to be deployed soon
• Economist says climate change is impacting home values and insurance rates in Appalachia
• Appalachian Regional Commission opens 2025 POWER grant application process
• Former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis files with SCOTUS to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
• Kentucky environmentalists concerned over EPA changes
• UK Markey Cancer Center shows off new same-day lung cancer technology, treatments
• The governor's office is launching a new website to help protect Kentuckians from scammers.
• Governor Beshear announces awards totaling $110 million for school districts across Kentucky.
• SKCTC awarded five-year, $1.75 million federal grant for low-income, first-generation and disabled students
• Letcher County tourism leaders work to open mountaintop resort
• Public input requested for Central Kentucky Climate Action Plan
• Lexington releases new plan to reduce gun violence
• Central Kentucky health officials say they're concerned about Kennedy's mRNA contract cancellations
• Apple announces plan to have all iPhone and Apple Watch glass produced in Kentucky
• ‘They’re not allowed to speak to us’ National parks clam up amid Trump staffing cuts
• Beshear joins multi-state lawsuit against Trump Administration over unemployment funds
• Attorneys for former Letcher County sheriff accused of murder ask for psychiatric evaluation to be unsealed
• Trump’s mine agency wants to strip power from its own safety managers
• London City Council effort to remove mayor from office chaotic – and unresolved