Bowling Green

Bowling Green Area Residents Rally Against End of DACA

By • Sep 5, 2017
Rhonda Miller, WKU Public Radio

About 60 people marched in Bowling Green on Sept. 5 in support of DACA, or “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.” 

Harvey Moves North, Causing Flooding in Southern Kentucky After Heavy Rainfall

By • Sep 1, 2017

Friday morning rain has led to flooding in parts of the region, causing some school systems to call off classes, and low-lying areas to be inundated with water. 

A flash flood warning was in effect for Bowling Green and surrounding counties in southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee until Friday afternoon. Water crossed over roadways and heavy winds knocked down trees across some streets.

Warren County Road Division removed 15 trees blocking roadways as of early Friday afternoon.

Bowling Green Warren County Regional Airport has recorded more than five and a half inches of rain. The Kentucky Mesonet, based at Western Kentucky University, recorded rainfall amounts of more than seven inches in Todd and Logan counties. 

Building Material Company to Invest $10 Million for Bowling Green Facility

By • Jul 27, 2017
Carter Lumber via Facebook

A building materials supplier is investing $10 million dollars to build a new manufacturing facility in Bowling Green.

First Of Its Kind Unity Festival To Be Held At Bowling Green Islamic Center

By • Jul 21, 2017
Becca Schimmel | Ohio Valley ReSource

The Islamic Center in Bowling Green is sponsoring a first-of-its-kind Unity Festival Friday.

Bowling Green Veterans Nursing Home Still Many Years Away

By • Jul 12, 2017
Lisa Autry, WKU Public Radio

Veterans advocates say the hard part has just begun as Bowling Green seeks to open the state’s fifth veterans nursing home. 

Thousands Of Students Expected At WKU Stadium For Eclipse

By • Jul 4, 2017
Erica Peterson

Western Kentucky University is planning for its football stadium to be filled with as many as 20,000 school-age children for the solar eclipse on August 21.

Southern Kentucky Group Helping Refugees Sees Increased Donations, but Loss of Personnel

By • Jun 15, 2017
Lisa Autry, WKYU

A refugee resettlement agency in Bowling Green is reporting an uptick in donations.

Number of Pride Events Growing Across Kentucky

By • Jun 9, 2017
Ludovic Bertron, via Wikimedia Commons

 Several Kentucky communities are holding events this weekend in solidarity with  the National Equality March in Washington, D.C.  In fact, the Kentucky Fairness Campaign says a record number of pride events are scheduled this summer and  fall in the bluegrass state.  

UK College of Medicine Establishing Bowling Green Campus

By • Jun 6, 2017
Lisa Autry, WKYU

A new partnership will give some Western Kentucky University students a direct path to medical school without having to leave Warren County. 

Guthrie 'Convinced' of Russian Meddling in Presidential Election

By • May 31, 2017
Lisa Autry, WKYU

  A Kentucky congressman says he’s convinced that Russia tried to interfere in this country’s presidential election. 

However, Representative Brett Guthrie says there is no evidence that President Donald Trump was involved.

"There's no evidence at all of any collusion between what Russia did, or attempted to do, and the Trump administration," stated Guthrie.  "That's what the special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into, but my point is let's not create facts before they exist."

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