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Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is highlighting new recognition of the commonwealth’s economic success. The governor’s office says Site Selection magazine ranked Kentucky in second place for its South Central Region rankings and in eighth place nationally in its 2024 Prosperity Cup rankings. The Prosperity Cup “recognizes the competitiveness of state-level economic development agencies and their success in landing capital investment projects according to data from 2023.” Expanded facilities, new jobs created, […]

The Central Kentucky Community Foundation facilitated the twelfth annual KY Gives Day for regional non-profits Tuesday. Community Foundation Communications and Projects Coordinator Erin Hahn said the effort was a successful one. “25 regional organizations participated and they had a great day,” Hahn said. “It was a 24-hour online giving day and we raised collectively close to $100,000, and that’s just due to the amazing and generous community that we live in.” More […]

Government, business, and community leaders joined officials from Elizabethtown Community and Technical College and BlueOval SK as the ribbon was cut on the college’s new training center located just outside the battery park in Glendale. ECTC President and CEO Dr. Juston Pate said cutting the ribbon on the facility is a testament to the investment, vision, and commitment of the many community partners that have helped bring the project to fruition. “It […]

Kentuckians have one more year to get their licenses upgraded to a Real ID. Enforcement of the Federal Real ID Act begins on May 7, 2025, after which a Real ID state-issued driver’s license or ID or another federally-accepted form of identification such as a passport will be required for air travel and access to government or military buildings that require ID. A state-issued Real ID must be requested in […]

Elizabethtown Community and Technical College celebrated the accomplishments of its students Monday with their spring graduation ceremony, held at Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown. ECTC says the college expects to award 725 degrees and diplomas along with around 1,200 certificates to students that completed coursework this spring. ECTC President and CEO Dr. Juston Pate said Tuesday that graduation is a celebration for the students and the community. “When a student […]

Elizabethtown Community and Technical College is celebrating the accomplishments of four students that recently competed in a national robotics competition.  Team NUKE participated in the Vex Robotics World Championship in Dallas, the eighth consecutive year ECTC students have competed at the event. Vex U provides students with the chance to design, build, and program robots, which helps the students develop technical and soft skills. Teams work on their robots and compete […]

The Kentucky State Police is investigating a fatal accident that occurred in LaRue County Sunday evening. At approximately 6:30 p.m. on May 5, KSP Post Four troopers were requested by LaRue County Dispatch to assist in investigating a single-vehicle collision at the 6000 block of KY 61/Greensburg Road. The KSP says the preliminary investigation indicates that 59-year-old Bobby D. Sexton of Magnolia was driving south on KY 61 in a pickup truck […]

One person is dead and another seriously injured following an accident on the Western Kentucky Parkway in Hardin County. “On Sunday, May 5 at approximately 10:48 p.m. the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 126 mile marker on the WK Parkway for a reported motor vehicle accident.” said Hardin County Sheriff John Ward.  Upon the arrival of deputies, both of the involved vehicles were engulfed in flames. “The operator of […]

The Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet says Kentucky is the first state in the country to capture side and angle view photography of its entire geography from the sky. Pilots working for contractor NV5 flew 2,600 flight lines over 117,000 miles to capture images of more than 40,000 square miles of Kentucky’s cities, towns, farms, and natural areas to create the KY From Above program. The program was established in 2010 by the […]