Lexington KY

KSBar and Grille in Lexington announced it is closing as a full-time sports bar, citing rising food costs and broader economic challenges that have made daily operations unsustainable.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - WORK-Lexington is partnering with the Kentucky Career Center to help Fayette County Public Schools employees affected by the recent layoffs. A virtual job fair is to be hosted from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 17. Susan Straub, communications director in the Lexington Mayor’s office, says employers fr

Lexington, Ky.— Sybil Gotsch has spent her career climbing trees in some of the world’s most remote rainforests — from Costa Rica to Brazil to Mexico. Now, one of the hardest questions in her career is rooted in Eastern Kentucky. It’s been coined “the white oak problem”...

Home prices have been a major talking point since the pandemic, when they climbed at a record pace in response to a frenzy of demand. This increase led to a sharp decline in affordability that weighed on buyers and sellers and slowed the housing market to a crawl. Now, the...

A Jessamine County family is now racing to finish their new concession trailer before a major surgery that could put their fast-growing business on pause.

The University of Kentucky wants to build a physical rehabilitation hospital in Lexington — and while its application for a certificate of need was initially approved by the state, the matter is now under appeal.  After more than two years of back and forth in the courts, the project’s future is unclear.  According to

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WKYT) - A piece of school history buried beneath Southern Elementary School for 50 years was opened Tuesday. Students, teachers and alumni gathered to celebrate the school’s historic time capsule, first dedicated in 1976. “It’s just a wonderful historic event, where people who love this community and..

Kentucky officials are facing a second lawsuit over a new law to make Kentucky State University a polytechnic institution.  Filing the case in Franklin County Circuit Court last week, a group of anonymously identified students allege that Senate Bill 185 violates the Kentucky Constitution. The students argued that if t

On an unseasonably cool day, my teenage son and I make the short drive from our home in Lexington to nearby Versailles. Our mission: explore scenic vistas via pedal-powered railbikes at Rail Explorers Bluegrass Kentucky Division, an outing I’d had on my radar since its opening in 2023. The post This railbike ride is o

CAMPBELL COUNTY, TN (WLAF)- Caryville Det. Jacob Fox spent Memorial Day afternoon piecing together details of a crime resulting in an arrest and the return of stolen items to the victim. A man from Lexington, Ky., filed a report with local authorities and then called Fox to join the investigation...