Will Darnall

The Tennessee Valley Authority recently gave a handful of lucky area residents the chance to tour the inside of its facilities at Kentucky Dam to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary.

Early voting in Tennessee for the governor’s race and other state, federal and local offices begins Friday and will last through Aug. 1.

Funding is currently being negotiated to keep the long-running Cave-in-Rock Ferry operational for the next two years, but disagreements between the state and ferry operators are putting this year’s talks on the rocks. If a deal is not met before the current contract’s June 30 expiration date, the ferry serving parts of far western Kentucky and southern Illinois would shut down – leaving some community members high and dry.

In a milestone for Paducah’s Hotel Metropolitan, the nonprofit recently announced the hiring of its first paid staff member who will help lead the African American historical and cultural museum into the future.

Boaters on the Tennessee River will now see new “danger” signs on and around Kentucky Dam.

Every May and June, Monarch butterflies can be spotted fluttering throughout Kentucky as they take a much needed rest stop along their annual migration south. But biologists are worried that dwindling food supplies and other environmental factors at play in the Bluegrass State could cause problems for the colorful insects in the long run.

WKMS provides readers and listeners with coverage of a competitive Kentucky House race and contested judge-executive races in four counties around western Kentucky.

Three Republican candidates are running to be the next judge-executive in Graves County.

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.

A pair of the Bluegrass State’s independent movie houses – Maiden Alley Cinema in Paducah and The Kentucky Theatre in Lexington – will screen a series of short films this week that gives viewers a glimpse into the mind and world of Kentucky writer Wendell Berry.