• Kentucky measles cases reach 157, 12 times last year's

• Statewide: reading scores hit recent highs, but fewer Kentucky schools earn top ratings
• FCPS finance office has six vacancies and a 'significant' FY2028 revenue gap

• Kentucky American Water seeks a nearly 16% hike; Gorton calls it an 'outrage'

• Lexington paramedicine program grows; ER visits down 58% for its patients

• A foul odor lingers off Tates Creek Road; neighbors want answers

• Meta is behind the Mason County data center, with a 40-year local tax break
• Fact check: What 6 candidates in Lexington vice mayor race say about data centers

• Barr and Booker will debate on TV next week, as will Alvarado and Dembo

• About 80,000 Kentuckians lose SNAP food aid, Beshear says, including 24,655 children

• Absentee ballot deadline coming up next Tuesday

• Breeders' Cup returns to Keeneland: the week of events planned around Lexington

• A fire camp for young women keeps Lt. Brenda Cowan's legacy alive

• Percival Everett, who started teaching at UK, on 'James' at the Kentucky Theatre

• A Lexington hotel is the only one in Kentucky with a Michelin key
• Former bar, restaurant spot for sale. It was among first to serve Mexican food in Lexington

• A parakeet flew off near Richmond Road, was left in a box, and made it home

• Not This Time's stud fee set at $300,000, the highest in North America

• No. 15 Kentucky at Oklahoma Saturday: first meeting since 1982, how to watch
• Running back CJ Baxter could miss Saturday's game

• Cats open exhibition play Friday at Rupp against Travis Ford's Little Rock
• Pope: 'probably the best shooting team I've ever had'

• Ex-Cat Otega Oweh out for his rookie season with a ruptured Achilles

• Kentucky women picked fifth in the SEC; Clara Strack on the All-SEC first team

• Breeders' Cup contenders work in the Keeneland fog, timed by an Apple Watch