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Datebook 4/18: Human Rights Awareness, Backyard Conservation, Blood Drive

The City of Murray Human Rights Commission celebrates Human Rights Awareness Week. Tomorrow there's a discussion on understanding voting rights at 6 at…

Unemployment Rates Fell in Every Kentucky County Between April 2017 and April 2018

Unemployment rates fell in every Kentucky county between April 2017 and April 2018. That’s according to the latest data from the Kentucky Center for…

Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams is projecting a low voter turnout for the state's primary election on Tuesday, May 16.

Local and statewide election results for Kentucky

Presidential and statewide election results from Kentucky, including links to local western Kentucky results by county.

"I had one day I worked six hours and made $50. It really wasn't worth it. ... But it doesn't happen that often," says Hilary Gordon, who works as a shopper for the grocery delivery app Instacart in a suburb of Sacramento, Calif. "The other day I worked 11-and-a-half hours and made $265. Great? No. But good."

Why Suburban Moms Are Delivering Your Groceries

After two master's degrees and three children, Hilary Gordon is one of the women who now make up more than half of the contractors at food delivery apps like Instacart. NPR spent a day with her.

Video artist Robin Bell projected the words "Covid Memorial," onto the brick wall of a Subway sandwich shop in Washington, D.C. Below them scrolled a slideshow of faces of COVID-19 victims, along with messages their loved ones had posted on social media.

Memorializing Those Who Died In The Time Of COVID-19

Since it's impossible to hold mass public gatherings to mourn those who have died of COVID-19, people are creating new ways to memorialize the dead.

Kentucky Will Soon Lead Nation In Syringe Exchanges, But Work Isn’t Done

Kentucky ranks in the top five highest number of drug overdoses in the country. It also has one of the highest of Hepatitis C, and while HIV/AIDS cases…

Intermountain Residential in Helena, Montana, is one a handful of programs in the U.S. providing long-term behavioral health treatment for kids younger than 10. Administrators recently announced that staffing shortages are forcing them to downsize from 32 beds to 8, and the facility might have to close entirely.

For kids in crisis, it's getting harder to find long-term residential treatment

A Montana treatment center is one of two places in the U.S. offering long-term residential behavioral treatment for kids as young as 4. Now, administrators say it might have to close.

Datebook: October 19 - Auguste Lumiere Turns 150

Happy birthday to one half of the Lumiere brothers, the earliest filmmakers in history. Auguste and Louis patented the process of moving film through a…

Updated 11:27pm We'll continue to update this post as we receive more closings:The following school districts have cancelled classes for Tuesday, March 4:…

Calloway County Next to Leave PDHD

By Jacque DayMurray, Ky. – The Calloway County Board of Health has the official approval to break away from the Purchase District Health Department. The…

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