Louisville KY

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – In total, more than 645,000 pounds of unwanted medications are off of household shelves thanks to National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. According to a release by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, on Oct. 24, more than 4,200 law enforcement agencies collected unused medications to prevent drug misuse.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A resolution supporting the Plant Based Treaty has been filed with Louisville Metro Council, prompting public comments from supporters and concern from at least one council member about its potential impact on meat and agriculture businesses. The Plant Based Treaty is a worldwide campaign created in...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Nov. 3, 2026) — Louisville-based Long John Silver’s is expanding its cold-weather menu with returning clam chowder, a $6 fish basket and new seasonal sweets, while making mac and cheese a permanent offering. The menu additions launched Nov. 2 at participating restaurants nationwide. The lineup includes...

A Kentucky caregiver for senior adults was arrested after allegedly recording a patient suffocating his wife without intervening.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville voters are casting ballots in congressional, senatorial and municipal races, with some residents voting early amid concerns about turnout and planned Department of Justice monitoring at polling places. For Bette Hughes, voting is only part of her civic duty. Hughes said she has spent about...

Police say Eric B. Blanton died at the jail Saturday.

Louisville police officers arrested a man accused of crashing into a cruiser while driving drunk. The Louisville Metro Police Department said it happened around 7 p.m. Sunday while the officer was taking a report on a crash near 1st Street and Badger Avenue, just west of the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.

Kentucky Office of Music will leverage what’s already a multibillion-dollar cultural asset. The sea of music fans gathered in Louisville for September’s Bourbon & Beyond festival in for a surprise. Sandwiched between early Friday evening sets by Father John Misty and Foster the People was a guest not initially on the performance schedule; while not an artist in any traditional sense, music was the reason for his visit.

A lawsuit alleging the University of Louisville overcomplied with Kentucky’s House Bill 4 may be on the horizon. On Wednesday, Oct. 28, a room of mostly Black U of L students, faculty, staff and local community members led by Pan-African Studies professor Ricky Jones packed the Chao Auditorium with hopes of creating change.

A Louisville man faces more than a dozen charges, including DUI, in connection with a deadly hit-and-run Sunday morning in the Taylor Berry neighborhood. Louisville Metro police said officers were called to the 2700 block of 7th Street Road around 4:40 a.m. on a report a pedestrian had been hit by a vehicle.