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The Elizabethtown City Council met for a special meeting Monday. A public hearing was held on the city’s Municipal Road Aid funding. “The city currently has $0 in carryover funds in its Municipal Road funds and will receive approximately $601,857.59 during the fiscal year 2027,” said Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory. “The LGEA fund has $0 in carryover funds and will receive approximately $0 during the fiscal year 2027.” A zoning map amendment […]

The primary election is one week away, and voter registration saw another surge. The Kentucky Secretary of State’s Office says 9,883 new voters were added to the rolls ahead of the April 20 registration deadline. According to the Secretary of State’s Office, Republican registration in April increased by 3,915 voters, independent or other registration increased by 1,725, and Democratic registration increased by 1,168 voters. Republican registration makes up 48 percent of the […]

Area nonprofits will be looking for extra support Tuesday as they participate in KY Gives Day. “It is a chance for area nonprofits to showcase all the great work that they do throughout the year in giving back to the community, and it also makes it a very easy way for the community to give to them through the online portal,” said Central Kentucky Community Foundation Communications Coordinator Erin Hahn. The online […]

Dr. Shannon Holt, who with support from the Central Kentucky Community Foundation’s Heels Together Initiative spearheaded the creation of the PinkDot Project, says two in five women in the United States cannot afford their own period supplies, something that has become increasingly problematic as costs have risen. “One in four students can’t afford their supplies, and these students and women, they’re missing school, they’re missing work, and when you can’t […]

Heritage Children Services Home Resource Coordinator Jessy Jefferson says Kentucky, and the nation as a whole, is seeing a major shortage in available foster homes, with numbers down nearly 50 percent from last year. “These kids need safe places, and when these kids suffer, all of our community suffers,” Jefferson says. “They need to be somewhere safe where someone can guide them, give them direction, where they can get services, where […]

Officials are reminding drivers in Elizabethtown to continue paying attention to traffic pattern changes and possible delays related to two major road projects. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District Four says traffic on Ring Road near the intersection with Patriot Parkway has been placed in a split phase on the outside of the roundabout under construction at the new Kroger. On the Patriot Parkway side, turning lane and r-cut loon work will require […]

The Kentucky Office of Medical Cannabis has created “an effective program that was transparent and fair to all licensure applicants” according to an independent review. The Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet’s Office of the Inspector General on Thursday published findings from their independent review of the OMC. According to a release from the FAC,  the review “included the review of statutes and regulations, numerous reports, system data, policies and processes, videos, licensure […]

March unemployment in Kentucky is down slightly from the previous year. The Kentucky Center for Statistics says the state unemployment average for March was 4.2 percent. That is the same as the average reported in February, and down .5 percent from the March 2025 average of 4.7 percent. Kentucky’s unemployment average for March came in under the national unemployment rate, which the U.S. Department of Labor says at 4.3 percent is […]

Governor Andy Beshear highlighted a company expanding operations in Bullitt County during his Team Kentucky Update Thursday. The governor said transportation and supply chain management provider Averitt will be building a new regional campus in Bullitt County, with construction set to begin immediately. “The expansion will include an investment that will exceed $113 million,” Beshear said. “It’s going to allow the company to add 64 associates over the next four years, and […]