The two-day festival in Paducah’s Lower Town neighborhood will feature two stages, live music, crafts, vendors, and food. Festival Music Director Seth Murphy said he is glad the festival is back, and that he thinks it will be better than ever. This year’s headliners are two Grammy Award-winning artists: renowned pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph and Cajun-flavored rock musician Louis Michot.

Local officials, business leaders, job seekers, concerned citizens and people looking to learn about the nuclear industry packed an open house event in Paducah Wednesday hosted by Global Laser Enrichment.

The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously running sporting event in the country. Despite its long history, horse racing is still evolving with the emergence of new technological advancements.

In Kentucky, prize purses for winning horse racers have risen sharply in recent years. Those purses have been fueled in large part by the growth in state-sanctioned gambling on historical horse race machines.

University of Kentucky researchers are working on a new way of eliminating an invasive insect species that’s been a blight to some of the commonwealth’s biggest crops.

Michael Pape, a Murray State graduate who served for over two decades as field director for former Kentucky Congressman Ed Whitfield and currently serves as chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rural utility service, is the featured speaker at this year’s Harry Lee Waterfield Distinguished Lecture in Public Affairs taking place Tuesday evening.

The pellet "definitively" links the suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, to the attack, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro told CNN on Sunday.

On Thursday, authorities in Myanmar claimed they had transferred Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi from prison to house arrest. Her son Kim Aris spoke to NPR about his doubts about the regime's account.

New York City-based content creator Isabel Klee is known for fostering some of the hardest-to-place dogs. She's written a memoir, "Dogs, Boys, And Other Things I've Cried About."

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WPNE listener Cheryl Haupt and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

After the Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs, Richard Brown began lining up the paperwork he needed to get his refund. Experts say many businesses may never get their money back.

The Stillaguamish Tribe in Washington state has been buying land in its traditional territory and removing levees. The goal is to turn farmland into wetlands with the hopes of restoring Chinook salmon.