Lily Burris

While some Kentucky schools and businesses shut their doors during and after the storm, farmers still had to go to work. Dealing with winter weather is a necessary part of farming in order to keep crops and livestock growing.

Senate Bill 5, sponsored by Sen. Jason Howell, would create a legal pathway for school boards and districts to purchase “Kentucky-grown agricultural products.”

The Kentucky Foundation for Women’s 2025 Artist Enrichment grant is supporting artists – including two in Calloway County – who are participating in residencies, developing new techniques or building on existing bodies of work.

The emergence of artificial intelligence is prompting changes in several industries, including journalism, as they contemplate how to utilize the new technology.

Over multiple school years, Northwest High School teacher Megan Clegg developed an unused outdoor classroom space into a small livestock operation with lambs, steer, rabbits and bees on site, allowing students to get their hands dirty and experience a working farm.

Though Kentucky is home to several major EV industry developments, the Bluegrass State’s drivers have been even slower than most to make the shift. In a press release from the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a lobbying group of car manufacturers, their data showed that Kentucky ranks 39th in the electric vehicle market. In 2024, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet reported it had just 14,410 registered passenger vehicles that were fully electric. That’s less than 1% of the state’s personal automobiles.

Bowen National Research, a real estate marketing and analysis consultant, presented its study this week focusing on the characteristics and trends of housing availability within Hopkinsville and Christian County.

For nearly 50 years, the small community in southern Illinois has celebrated the Man of Steel with the Metropolis Superman Celebration. What started in the late 1970s as a small event for the local community has since expanded to become one of the city’s marquee events, drawing in Superman fans from all over the world.

Leadership with the western Kentucky police department wanted to create a new space to host in-service trainings, yearly courses that officers are required to take. The Madisonville Police Regional Training Complex, completed in 2024, houses a variety of law enforcement training spaces for the Madisonville Police Department and the Department of Criminal Justice Training.

Richie Kemp lost to his Republican opponent – George Shannon Powers – by a little more than 900 votes, a gap that’s only slightly bigger than the GOP’s edge in voter registration in the county. But Kemp’s loss wasn’t that cut-and-dry.