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Watson, who has worked for the city's water utility for 28 years, will retire at the end of the year.

Extremely dry conditions prompted the bans on outdoor burning, city and county officials said.

The Kentucky Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over whether public business conducted on a private device should still fall under the state’s open record laws.

The damages caused by a severe storm more than two years ago are expected to be completed by March 2026.

The issue of posting the commandments in schools first surfaced in 1980 in Kentucky.

ExxonMobile announced Tuesday that it is acquiring the technology and U.S.-based assets of Superior Graphite, including most of the company’s production facility in Hopkinsville, for an undisclosed price.

Kentucky tax revenues fell $7.5 million short of what was needed in the past fiscal year to trigger cutting the income tax to 3% in 2027.

The 988 system, launched by the federal government in 2022, is a national network of more than 200 crisis centers that field calls, texts and chats.

As of Thursday morning, approximately $235,000 — or roughly one-third of this year’s goal — had been raised. 

Studies have detected high levels of PFAS in Christian County.

U.S. Reps. Thomas Massie and James Comer are central players in the controversy over releasing investigative files in the case of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The free performance of "The Tempest," by Kentucky Shakespeare, will be on Sept. 17 at the Hopkinsville Greenway Amphitheater.