Lexington KY

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A duck derby, a lavender festival and a live outdoor concert are among the events happening around central Kentucky this weekend. The sixth annual Lexington Duck Derby is taking place at noon June 28 behind Lexington Green. The $5 duck adoption benefits the Kiwanis Club of Lexington Blue Grass.

Diallo is the type of point guard Mark Pope needs in his offense.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Flash flooding hit Lexington earlier this week, forcing at least one local business to temporarily close. Minton’s, a restaurant that opened in February 2025, was among the businesses affected when floodwaters entered the building Monday. The owner, Ashley Minton, said she learned about the floo

WINCHESTER, Ky. (WKYT) - One year ago Friday, Reacheal Dawson was found dead in a Winchester motel room — a case that would expand into a multi-county investigation linking one man to the deaths of three women. Dawson told her family she would be right back before leaving their...

That hush right before the first shell goes up might be the best part of the whole night. The crowd goes quiet, every face tilts skyward, and for one long beat the world just waits. Then the sky erupts. Every summer, Kentucky delivers that exact moment on some of the...

🌎 Resumen en español · traducción automática. When the Urban County Council expanded the Red Mile’s tax-increment-financing district on June 4 — in a nine-day sprint to beat a state deadline, with no debate and not one member of the public at the microphone — this newspaper reported that the one number a taxpayer would

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - The attorney for Fayette County Public Schools’ former budget director has amended her complaint against the district. Attorney Brandon Voelker said his client, Ann Sampson Grimes, had her pay reduced recently, prompting the addition of compensatory damages and a reinstatement request to the com

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A new report from Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration shows serious crime is down across Kentucky, but local anti-crime organizations and law enforcement say the commonwealth still has more work to do. ‘One is too many’. Terry Dumphord, founder of the Voyage Movement, a nonprofit in...

CARTER COUNTY, Ky. (FOX 56) — Officials in Carter County told FOX 56 News that a search is ongoing for a missing 19-year-old woman who has been missing since Wednesday. On June 25, the Carter County Sheriff's Office posted on Facebook, asking community members with information about the search to reach out to Kentucky

Collin Chandler isn't shy about throwing shade at Kentucky after ditching the Cats in the transfer portal.