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Kentucky Transportation Cabinet joins NHTSA in promoting shared safety practices by all highway users FRANKFORT, Ky. (May 3, 2022) – In recognition of May as Motorcycle and Bike Safety Awareness Month, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s (KYTC) Office of Highway Safety (KOHS) is joining the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in reminding all road users…
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month By: Winn Stephens, Executive Director, Children’s Advocacy Center of the Bluegrass As we reach the end of Child Abuse Prevention Month, I have been reflecting on Kentucky’s ranking near the bottom of child abuse cases nationwide. In 2020, Kentucky ranked 5th in total reported cases of child abuse.…
Business Insider map provided by Beshear’s office, adapted by Ky. Health News By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After a bill to legalize medical marijuana in Kentucky failed again in the legislature, Gov. Andy Beshear announced a plan to ask Kentuckians how he might address the issue through executive action. “This session, like the…
Kentucky Health News chart from state data By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Daily cases and the share of Kentuckians testing positive for the coronavirus are rising again, apparently reflecting a national trend. The state’s report for the last Monday-Sunday period showed 3,257 new cases of the virus, an average of 465 per day,…
Kentucky Health News Ticks are a threat in Kentucky year-round, but especially in the summer months. The next time one bites you, stop and think before flushing it down the toilet. You could help other people by mailing it to the University of Kentucky entomology department to see if it carries disease or not.…
Big changes are coming to Kentuckians who qualified for uninterrupted health coverage during the pandemic. Here’s what thousands of us, and members of our communities, need to know. Provided by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Tens of thousands of Kentuckians who have benefitted from continuous health coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic…
By Elizabeth Chapin LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 20, 2022) — More than two years into the University of Kentucky’s $87 million HEALing Communities Study (HCS) to address the opioid epidemic in Kentucky, it is possible to see the life-changing impacts it has already made in the eight counties of the study’s first wave. Launched in 2019, the ambitious…
The annual Paris Storytelling Festival is held in the beautiful and architecturally significant towns of Paris and Carlisle, Kentucky, surrounded by charming Bluegrass horse farms and historical culture. The festival is geared to the old and the new, bringing together counties steeped in tradition yet open to the youth of tomorrow. Stories, music, history and…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s Republican-majority legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of legislation with strict requirements that advocates say have forced the state’s only two abortion clinics to stop providing abortions — and lawsuits by the clinics to nullify the new law. The law, passed as House Bill 3, bans mailing…
Water main flushing and temporary water treatment change to begin later this month LEXINGTON, Ky., (April 11, 2022) – Kentucky American Water will soon perform the annual flushing of its water distribution system to support the continued provision of high-quality, reliable water service to customers. “Flushing the water lines in our system assists in helping…