WULF News

A man from Vine Grove is dead following a crash in Breckinridge County Friday night. The Kentucky State Police says at approximately 7:30 p.m. on September 20, the Breckinridge County Sheriff’s Office requested troopers from KSP Post Four investigate a two-vehicle collision near the 7,000 block of KY 333. The KSP says the preliminary investigation shows that 18-year-old Kenenth R. Miller of Vine Grove was driving north on KY 333 when for […]

Election Day is November 5, and voters looking to request an absentee ballot may now do so as the state’s absentee ballot request portal opened Saturday. “It will be open now through October 22, but don’t wait,” said Hardin County Clerk Brian D. Smith. “If you qualify for an absentee ballot, you can visit govote.ky.gov or you can call our election hotline at 270-765-6762.” Qualifications for an absentee ballot are available on the […]

It’s always important to keep your eyes on the road when operating a vehicle, and come the new year the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will be ensuring that your eyes are up for the challenge. Beginning January 1, all Kentucky drivers must undergo a vision screening in order to renew their license. The requirement was enacted by the Kentucky General Assembly in 2021 in order to “promote highway safety by ensuring that all […]

Casey Keown is a detective with the Kentucky State Police, but he remembers the many days and nights he spent skateboarding growing up in Grayson County, something that motivated him and others to create the Twin Lakes Skatepark Project. “The skatepark is horrible here in Grayson County,” Keown said. “We need something new, somewhere to take our kids. My daughter recently found my skateboard in the shed. So I rode with […]

Caitlyn Burden says she has known the McKellar family since she was in middle school, so she has been looking for a way to honor the memory of Timothy “Junior” McKellar. “Last year he passed away in a plane crash in Whitesville, and ever since then the community’s been coming together and remembering him, and I hadn’t done anything for him yet because everybody else was doing stuff for him, […]

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear discussed the latest round of funding for the Safe Streets and Roads for All grant program during his Team Kentucky Update Thursday. Included in the $28.5 million awarded was an $11.1 million grant matched by $2.3 million in state funds for the Envisioning a Safer Elizabethtown project. “This grant money is going to be huge for us because it identifies two different corridors that probably are our most […]

Unemployment in Kentucky saw a slight increase in August.  The Kentucky Center for Statistics says the state unemployment average for August was 4.8 percent. That is an increase from the 4.7 percent rate reported in July as well as from August 2023 when the rate was reported at 4.2 percent. Kentucky’s unemployment average also came in higher in July than the national unemployment rate, which the U.S. Department of Labor reported at […]

The Radcliff City Council met for their second meeting of the month Tuesday. An ordinance amending the city budget for the 2023-2024 fiscal year was approved on its second reading. Radcliff Mayor JJ Duvall previously said the amendment was standard for the end of a fiscal year. Representatives from QK4, which provides engineering work for the city, presented the council with a $1.85 million check from the FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grant […]

Breckinridge County Schools responded to a potential threat Wednesday. “A little bit before noon, a student reported to a school official a Snapchat post, and the Snapchat post was threatening in nature to our school district, so we immediately started putting things in place to ensure the safety of all of our schools in the district,” said BCS Superintendent Dr. Nick Carter.  The Breckinridge County Sheriff’s Office and the Hardinsburg and […]