Government

The session would deal with massive increases in pension costs to regional universities, health departments and others.

One improvement project on East Sixth Street is moving ahead and will create new free parking downtown, but another project in the same block has been delayed indefinitely out of concerns about the potential for loitering and vagrancy.

Proponents of raising the legal age to buy tobacco to 21 say McConnell's bill doesn't go far enough but add it could be the opening bid to change.

Gov. Matt Bevin and his Democratic challengers, Attorney General Andy Beshear, will share the stage Aug. 3 at Fancy Farm.

Bernard Standard has led the Hopkinsville Human Relations Commission since 1990. A native of Memphis, he moved to Hopkinsville in 1978 to work for a loan company.

State policymakers could consider everything from extending voting hours on Election Day to flexibility in voting locations.

If the measure passes on second reading, the county's two distilleries will be able to sell liquor by the drink on Sundays.

Hopkinsville City Council members were asked to consider a pit bull ban after two attacks in the past week left three people with serious injuries.

The old, vacant pawn shop building on East Sixth Street will be demolished and replaced with a pocket park. It'll be the city's second pocket park downtown.

Hopkinsville City Council have cleared the way for the state Probation and Parole office to eventually move out of the heart of downtown.