Derek Operle

A group of masked individuals carrying white supremacist and Confederate symbols march near the McCracken County Courthouse in Paducah on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024.

Sen. Danny Carroll, a Republican from Benton and a self-professed “nuclear geek,” sponsored the legislation. “It's important for us to lay a solid foundation to make sure we don't get left behind,” Carroll said.

The Kentucky hometown of writer bell hooks now has a street named after her, just in time for Women's History Month. Derek Operle of WKMS reports.

Fewer than 7,000 people rode Kentucky's passenger rail service in 2022. Fulton had the highest ridership, punching just over 2,500 tickets.

The median along Walter Jetton Boulevard, near downtown Paducah, where the Paducah Historic Preservation Group could possibly place public art funded by a City of Paducah grant.

A bill that's before the Kentucky governor would redesignate a trio of state symbols to correct a more than 25-year-old geological gaffe. It would make coal (left), formerly the state mineral, the state rock, and name calcite (center) the state mineral. It would also name chalcedony agate (more commonly known as Kentucky agate, which is currently the state rock) the state gemstone. The current state gemstone, the freshwater pearl, would be stripped of its status due to its rarity in Kentucky.

A geologist-turned-lawmaker is the driving force behind a bill that would change the Kentucky state rock, mineral and gemstone.

A bill that's before the Kentucky governor would redesignate a trio of state symbols to correct a more than 25-year-old geological gaffe. It would make coal (left), formerly the state mineral, the state rock, and name calcite (center) the state mineral. It would also name chalcedony agate (more commonly known as Kentucky agate, which is currently the state rock) the state gemstone. The current state gemstone, the freshwater pearl, would be stripped of its status due to its rarity in Kentucky.

The Kentucky Public Library Association membership recently elected Tammy Blackwell as its new chair during the organization’s annual conference in Owensboro this March.

Murray State University leadership went over proposals to better compensate some of its faculty and staff during a budget town hall Thursday.