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New Utility Rates For KY Customers The Kentucky Public Service Commission has set new base rates for the two largest electric providers in Kentucky.The PSC says the rates are lower than what LG&E and Kentucky Utilities requested.With the new rates, the base rate portion of a typical LG&E residential electric bill will increase by…
Funeral Arrangements Set For KY Soldier Funeral arrangements are set for a Kentucky soldier who died last week while serving in Iraq.22-year-old specialist Ryan Dennis Orin Riley was killed in a non-combat related incident.He was a graduate of Lexington’s Henry Clay High School and was assigned to the 101st airborne division out of Fort…
U of K Students Using Weather Drones A graduate student at the University of Kentucky is using drones to research the atmosphere.Travis Schuyler is a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at the University of Kentucky. He is sending a drone up into the atmosphere using weather balloons to collect weather data.”The ballon gives you the…
Improvements To Fish Pond Lake County officials are ready to make some improvements around Fish Pond Lake.”We have so many people that care about this lake, that care about Letcher County and we know by coming together we can make that happen,” says Jessica Howard County Tourism Director.They are making improvements, not only to…
Kentuckians For Transportation New Executive Director Kentuckians for Transportation named a new executive director on Tuesday.According to The Lane Report, former 94th District Representative Leslie Combs will head the statewide transportation association.Combs previously served as vice chair of the House Transportation Committee and chair of the House Budget Sub-Committee on Transportation.“I am very excited…
Governor Designs New Pension Bill Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin says his administration has crafted a new pension bill for lawmakers to consider in a special session. Bevin hasn’t said when he’ll call lawmakers back to the Capitol in Frankfort to consider the measure aimed at giving regional universities, county health departments and other agencies…
911 Service Heading To Logan County The Logan County Emergency Center Director, Ted Sparks, says within the next month they will start to test out a program that will allow people to send a text when they need help.”With a text message you can have one bar and still get a message out ten…
School Bus Crash In Prestonsburg This morning Prestonsburg Police responded to a crash involving a school bus. Police say it happened on Highway 114 around 7:45 a.m when a vehicle stopped in front of the bus and the bus hit it, causing the first vehicle to hit a third vehicle.There were seven students on…
KY’s AG Files Education Lawsuit Kentucky’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit, seeking to block subpoenas issued by Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration as part of an investigation of teachers who might have used sick days that shut down schools earlier this year to stage protests. The protests were part of a wave of teacher…
Regulating Tattoos In KY The Department of Public Health is proposing new regulations this month regarding tattoos. A lot of those proposed regulations focus on keeping Kentucky’s tattoo shops clean, but one of the regulations has some shop workers unhappy.”This is the only way for these people to move forward with their lives,” said…