Awesome mid-October weather to finish the week

With plenty of sunshine and a south breeze, afternoon highs should run toward the 80 degree mark again on Friday.

It was a picture perfect Thursday across Central and Eastern Kentucky with lots of sunshine and unseasonably warm temperatures for the middle part of October. With a warm front camped out across the central part of the Ohio Valley, the commonwealth sat in a perfect spot to soak up the warmth pushed northward on the heels of a south breeze….

Nearly 9,000 Kentucky Truck Plant workers in Louisville are on strike. Here’s why

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) — Workers at kentucky’s “ford truck plant” have joined the united auto workers strike. The surprise strike — ordering thousands of workers off the job at the company’s largest plant last night. The walk-off from the Kentucky Truck Plant comes after negotiations between the United Auto Workers and Ford failed to come to a compromise on a new…

A brief warm up before we cool it back down

Meteorologist Jordan Smith has a look at your Thursday morning forecast!

  Lexington, Kentucky (WTVQ – ABC 36): Good Thursday morning Kentucky, we are in the middle of a “brief” warm up because MAJOR changes are showing up for the weekend. High temperatures today will come up into the upper 70s to near 80 today with mostly sunny skies. Lows by Friday morning drop back into the low to mid 50s,…

Political analyst breaks gubernatorial polls, historical impact

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — In Kentucky,  it’s officially crunch time for candidates who are vying for office in the race for governor. The general election in Kentucky, will be on November 7th. As the push to sway undecided voters continues, one recent Emerson College Poll shows Andy Beshear being in the lead. “Polling in Kentucky tends to have very small…

Workers at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville join UAW strike

Surprise strike includes nearly 9,000 workers at the Kentucky Truck Plant

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) — Workers at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville have joined the UAW strike. Workers began walking off the job at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday in a significant escalation by the union. The large F-Series pick-up trucks are made at the KTP. The trucks are among Ford’s most profitable vehicles. The plant also makes the Super Duty,…

Late summer feel returns to the area to close out the week

Afternoon highs should press 80 degrees in some spots the next few days before we cool down this weekend

After a chilly and even frosty start to Wednesday across parts of the commonwealth with readings down into the 30s, mid to high level clouds took over for the remainder of the day. The combination of a Gulf Coast system through some clouds northward and a warm front just to our south heading this direction, we saw much more in…

Keynote marks final destruction of remaining US chemical weapon stockpile in Richmond

RICHMOND, Ky. (WTVQ) — Sen. Mitch McConnell joined other state leaders to recognize the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant team and their work in destroying the last chemical weapons in the declared U.S. stockpile. Wednesday, we celebrate the destruction of the last chemical stockpile in the Commonwealth, marking a closer end to chemical warfare and ensuring safer communities. As…