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With the Kentucky General Assembly legislative session that begins Tuesday being a long session, 10th District State Senator Matt Deneen says the state budget is top priority. “We have a lot of issues with housing and Medicaid that we’re going to have to deal with, and we’re always going to be concerned with looking at ways to invest in education as we always have, and of course infrastructure across the […]

The Elizabethtown City Council met for their first meeting of 2026 Monday. The meeting was the first to be held in the council’s new chambers, located at 212 West Dixie Avenue. The council approved an ordinance on its second reading that updated city code for meetings of the council and the city’s boards and commissions to be held in the chambers. An ordinance rezoning 2916 Dolphin Drive was also approved on its […]

After delaying the originally scheduled event, Norton Healthcare is one again planning to host a listening session regarding the construction of a second dedicated pediatric care campus in Jeffersontown. The event will be held Tuesday, January 13 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at G.C. Burkhead Elementary School. Norton Healthcare President and CEO Russell Cox says Norton wants to hear from a wide range of community members, from current parents and […]

The spring semester at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College gets under way on January 12, and students can fast track the enrollment process during the college’s Express Enrollment dates this week. ECTC will host Express Enrollment for new and current students from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday and from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. No appointment is necessary. Students should head to the Welcome […]

The state of Kentucky is reporting that efforts to make highways safer in the commonwealth saw some success last year. Governor Andy Beshear said during the last Team Kentucky Update of 2025 that preliminary data shows there were 636 highway fatalities in the state heading into December. “While that’s still too many, 636, it’s a 7 percent decrease in fatalities from the past year,” Beshear said. “It’s an 18 percent decrease since […]

A Hardin County man is in custody after he allegedly stabbed and killed his mother Friday in an area nursing home. Joseph Curtis is currently incarcerated in the Hardin County Detention Center, where he is being held on a Murder – Domestic Violence charge. Radcliff Police Chief Jeff Cross told media officers responded to Signature HealthCARE at North Hardin shortly after 2 p.m. on January 2 following a reported stabbing. Curtis […]

Hardin County Quick Response Team Director Justin Blair says December saw another spike in drug overdoses. “It’s still the same old thing with fentanyl and methamphetamines,” Blair said. “That’s really what’s creating all of this issue, and like I’ve said before, the hospitals use fentanyl, but it’s regulated, and so what they’re getting on the street is made in somebody’s basement, and it’s just super dangerous and you have no […]