GDK: Tim Couch Bourbon Signing
Categories: GDK Guests
Knox Co. man accused of assaulting girlfriend, their infant
BARBOURVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) — A Knox County man allegedly assaulted his girlfriend and their infant, sending both to the hospital for treatment last week. Deputies with the Knox County Sheriff’s Department responded to a domestic violence complaint at a home in Barbourville on June 21. After an investigation, Scott McVey, of Barbourville, was arrested and charged with criminal abuse, criminal…
GMK: What Ya Eating Wednesday Pie Five
Categories: GMK
State leaders discuss new farm bill
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator John Boozman attended a press conference at the University of Kentucky’s Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. The senators discussed the new farm bill, which needs to be passed every five years; Former President Donald Trump signed the bill into law in 2018. As the time approaches to pass the…
CAP program aims to help reduce crime and gun violence in Lexington
One Lexington has partnered with various organizations to create alternative pathways for kids ages 12-17
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — They say you miss 100% of the shots that you don’t take, and a new initiative through One Lexington is making sure they create alternative pathways for kids and teens ages 12 through 17 through different partnerships within the community. “When we did the budget for this year, we were thinking of ways to focus on…
Canadian wildfire smoke makes a brief return with heat, humidity, and storms set to return
Even though some smoke/haze will hang around Wednesday, it should be a decent day with sunshine and highs into the mid-80s
We’ve seen multiple rounds of it the last month across Central and Eastern Kentucky so it was no surprise to see a return of the smoke and haze from the on-going wildfires across Eastern Canada. With high pressure to our northwest and low pressure to our northeast, that put the Ohio Valley in the prime spot for another wave of…
AVOL Kentucky, Walgreens team up for free, confidential HIV testing
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — It’s National HIV Testing Day — and in Lexington, there’s an effort to not only break the stigma but to get more people to know their status. The annual campaign works to provide early HIV diagnosis, so people living with HIV can fully benefit from available life-saving treatments. This year, Walgreens has teamed up with AVOL…
LTK: Woman Worth Talking About Alicia Miller
Categories: Let’s Talk Kentucky
LTK: Wylie Caudill
Categories: Let’s Talk Kentucky
News at Noon: Explorium Of Lexington
Categories: Noon Guests
Local businesses to raise funds to plant trees for National Parks & Rec Month
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — Lexington Parks & Recreation is ready for July with a full calendar of events and programs with local businesses to raise funds to plant trees in our parks. Each Friday in July, a local business will release a collaborative product and proceeds of those sales will support Trees Lexington. Below is the schedule: Friday, July 7…
U.K. Cooperative Program: LaToya Drake for Kentucky Nutrition Education Program 6/27/2023
Categories: GDK Guests
HopeFest Fundraiser with Jenny Howell & Holly Wages 6/27/2023
Categories: GDK Guests
Jon Parker of AVOL, KY: National HIV Testing Day 6/27/2023
Categories: GDK Guests
Ale 8 bringing back blackberry flavor in July
WINCHESTER, Ky. (WTVQ) — Fans spoke, and Ale 8 listened — the company’s blackberry flavor is coming back to shelves in July. Announced on social media on Tuesday with a video showcasing blackberries, an Ale 8 bottle and fan comments, Ale 8 said the drink will be back on shelves in Kentucky on July 10. Ale 8 hasn’t announced which…
Mom To Mom: Fourth of July Wreath
Categories: GMK, Mom to Mom
GMK: Tuesday Trivia (Bingo)
Categories: GMK
LTK: The Clown Story
Categories: Let’s Talk Kentucky
Much needed quiet weather following Sunday night’s damaging storms
Our biggest issue closing out June this week will be some heat returning by Thursday.
Needless to say it was a stormy and damaging end to the weekend across parts of Central and Southern Kentucky as several clusters of thunderstorms moved through. We are used to seeing some wind damage and occasionally a few tornadoes but we don’t have very large hail often but that was the case in Madison County where baseball sized hail…
Madison County residents assess costs; leaders address why FM alerts failed
RICHMOND, Ky (WTVQ)- As residents assess damage in Sunday’s storms, now emergency management leaders are tabulating the costs. “The tops of the trees are gone. I mean, everything around us looks destroyed. The car, the windshield shattered. The hail damage, it’s all over it. It’s in pretty bad shape. But nothing that cant be fixed,” says Judah Ison of Richmond….
Erica Explores: Berea College Forest
Categories: GAK
Why didn’t weather radios sound Sunday night in Madison County? Officials working to find out
RICHMOND, Ky. (WTVQ) — Weather radios didn’t sound off ahead of a severe storm that brought damaging wind, rain and hail to Madison County Sunday night. Now, officials are working to find out why. Madison County Emergency Management Agency, in a press release, says when the National Weather Service issues an alert based on its data, that alert should be…