City of Paducah

After Paducah’s Lower Town Arts & Music Festival was canceled earlier this year, a new organization has come together with the goal of bringing the event back in 2026 and beyond.

As Kingsway Skateland prepares to close shop to the public, a local roller derby team gears up with mouthguards, a helmet, knee and elbow pads and slips on their skates. They get on the rink ready to warm up, either by skating many laps around the rink or doing push-ups on skates.Then, the real fun begins. One skater wears a star on their helmet to gain the most points by skating past the other team, but there is a human wall they have to get through first. The skater zips through the other team's line of defense after being pushed and shoved. The skater can now earn points for their team, but they have to do all of this within two minutes.As someone who has never watched roller derby before, they might have their reservations about joining the team before they decide they wouldn’t mind being chest checked, but a local roller derby team hopes to gain new members to welcome into their community even though the sport can be seen as being aggressive.

Paducah Symphony Orchestra will host a ribbon cutting ceremony and concert on Saturday to officially open its new Symphony Hall, an auditorium that can hold nearly 700 people with permanent and temporary seating.

An arts festival in far western Kentucky is searching for a new host after its main sponsor decided it could no longer handle the annual event.

Paducahans voted to reelect incumbent Mayor George Bray to a second term Tuesday.

Two men with experience in elected office and business are running to be Paducah’s next mayor.

Candidates running for local office in Paducah in the November general election made their cases to voters Thursday evening at a forum hosted by the local NAACP chapter.

Paducah Mayor George Bray announced Tuesday evening that the city is dissolving its partnership with a development firm that had committed to bringing a $24 million project to the far western Kentucky community’s downtown.

The City of Paducah is receiving over $1 million in grant funding to continue restoration at the Hotel Metropolitan and carry on the legacy of the historic site that once served as a space for African American travelers during the Jim Crow Era.

Kentuckians and Tennesseans are celebrating the Eighth of August this week. The regional holiday – similar to Juneteenth – celebrates the emancipation of Black Americans from slavery.