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From autonomous mowers to multitasking machines, the show offered plenty of clues about where commercial landscaping is headed. If you attended Equip Expo 2026 in Louisville, Kentucky, you probably noticed two things: There was a lot of equipment to see, and apparently, nobody can agree on whether operators should be standing, sitting, or letting the machines do the work themselves.
Kentucky Educational Television’s executive director and CEO Shae Hopkins, who led the public television network for more than 17 years while the network amassed viewers and brought in regional and national awards, died Thursday. She was 69. Hopkins had planned to retire from her role at the end of the year while a search committee […]
Little ones can help pull a freshly cut Christmas tree through the baler at one Kentucky farm. That is the kind of tiny job kids remember for years. Another farm snaps a family photo with a dated sign and a reindeer, then pins returning customers’ pictures on a wall. I love that idea.
Sean Garber still struggles to return to the site of his company. It's been almost a year since the UPS Flight 2976 crash, and he said it is still difficult to return to the site. "When I come out here, it's painful. Every time I come out here, becomes even...
GRAYSON CO., Ky. (WBKO) - Employees at a Grayson County business will be out of jobs just before the holidays. According to the Kentucky Office of Industry & Apprentice Services, a partner in the Kentucky Career Center, a WARN notice has been sent out regarding the closure of Legett & Platt, Inc.
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (Oct. 29, 2026) — Nearly four decades after its first Kentucky-built Camry rolled off the assembly line, Toyota’s Georgetown plant remains central to the automaker’s U.S. manufacturing strategy as the company invests billions in domestic production and prepares for its next generation of vehicles. Toyota...
Gray Media has combined the newsrooms of its two television stations in Louisville, Kentucky, creating a single news operation that will produce local programming for broadcast television and streaming platforms. The new multi-platform newsroom, which launched Monday, October 26, brings together more than 100 journalists from WDRB (Channel 41, Fox)...
AT&T employees live and work in communities across the Commonwealth. In fact, more than 1,200 AT&T employees call Kentucky home. Every day, we work to keep our neighbors – and the Kentucky communities we call home – connected. In the last five years, AT&T invested more than $1.2...
The settlement concerns allegations that GM had sold the information to data brokers, who sold it to insurance companies, who used it to set insurance rates.
INDEPENDENCE, Ky. (WKRC) - Publix opened a new supermarket in Independence on Wednesday, expanding the grocer’s Northern Kentucky footprint to four stores. The 48,397-square-foot store is at 5135 Jenkins Drive. A neighboring Publix Liquors location also opened at 9 a.m. “We’re excited to open another location in Northern Kentucky,”...
Kentucky homeowners 65 and older, along with homeowners classified as totally disabled, have until Dec. 31 to apply to their county Property Valuation Administrator, known as the PVA, for the homestead exemption on their 2026 property tax bill. The exemption removes up to $49,100 from the assessed value of the home before the tax is […] The post Kentucky homeowners 65 and older have until Dec. 31 to apply to their county PVA for the $49,100 homestead exemption that lowers their 2026 property tax bill appeared first on The Money Overview .
The paint isn’t just on the canvases here. It’s splattered across the walls, the ceilings, and even the floors of one cheerful Kentucky art store. Then there’s a staircase leading down to a basement packed with even more supplies. Plenty of shoppers love those painted stairs enough to snap photos of them.
CALDWELL COUNTY, Ky. (Heartland News) - Kentucky officials announced that $350,000 in state funds will pay to prepare a Caldwell County site for future business development. According to Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear’s office, the Princeton-Caldwell County Industrial Development Authority (PCCIDA) will use the money to prepare a previously undeveloped site at the PCCIDA Industrial Park in Princeton. Once prepared, the site will be capable of supporting a 100,000 square foot industrial facility.
If you reside in parts of the Tri-State, say goodbye to the classic dial tone because a major telecom shift is hitting your neighborhoods in the coming weeks. AT&T is getting ready to start cutting off traditional copper landlines across parts of the Tri-State area. Who will be most affected?
A local business, Xtreme Fabrication, has flipped great misfortune into a rousing triumph as the company was nationally recognized for its bounce back ability after a major fire left the business with damaged and/or destroyed precision equipment, and a customer base yearning for product. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce named...
In southern Kentucky, you can buy fresh produce and a chicken coop at the same farm market. Same trip, same parking lot. Another stand on this list opens at 6 a.m., seven days a week. That means your produce run can happen before most stores even unlock their doors. One...
FRANKFORT, Ky., Oct. 29, 2026 — Federal officials have approved 137 census tracts across 76 Kentucky counties for Opportunity Zone 2.0 designation, opening another avenue for communities to attract private investment and support job creation. Gov. Andy Beshear announced Thursday that all of Kentucky’s recommended tracts received approval. The...
Manufacturing is woven into the identity and prosperity of Kentucky. Every day, thousands of Kentuckians go to work in facilities of every size, converting skill, ingenuity, and hard work into products used around the world. From cars and aerospace components to the white-oak barrels that help make Kentucky bourbon famous, our manufacturers compete globally while creating opportunities here at home.
While most of the attention surrounding the emerging Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) sector of aviation has focused on urban applications such as air taxis, a recent Ohio University study found that smaller communities also stand to benefit, provided their general aviation airports are adequately upgraded to support electric aviation. For...
