La Grange debuts new $3M state-of-the-art park ahead of holiday weekend festivities

LOUISVILLE, KY. (WDRB) -- Homearama is returning to Norton Commons for a fifth time this fall. The 2022 tour will include 10 homes that are near a park in The Hamlet — a 158-acre addition to Norton Common that extends into Oldham County. This year's showcase, put on by...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The crowd was flowing into the street at Bardstown Road Tuesday while parents and students waited in line for a chance to get a free pair of shoes and a backpack. The event, organized by Louisville native rapper EST Gee and several other organizations, aimed to...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A new gun club hopes to open a 370-acre sporting clay facility and country club in Oldham County. Owners hope to build Heritage Gun Club at 1507 Rebel Ridge Road, which is off 18 Mile Creek Road, in Westport. According to plans filled with Oldham County...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A new Chick-fil-A location is opening in the Louisville area. According to the restaurant chain's website, the new Chick-fil-A opens on Thursday on Plantside Drive, near the intersection with Blankenbaker Parkway. The company has stopped offering first 100 customers in line at a new restaurant free...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Missouri-based developer wants to give Distillery Commons a multimillion-dollar facelift, bringing apartments, retail and restaurant space to the Lexington Road property. The main Distillery Commons building that now includes self-storage units and other businesses would be renovated into 85 apartments surrounding an open-air courtyard, according...

LOUISVILLE, KY. (WDRB) -- The Swope Family of Dealerships has been around for 70 years and is now adding Commonwealth Motorcycles to its group of dealerships in Kentucky. According to a news release, Commonwealth Motorcycles opened in 1997 on Baxter Ave and is now located in NuLu. They have European motorcycles like Aprilia, Ducati, KTM and Piaggio.

Bullitt County Public Schools needs more bus drivers as 2022-23 school year looms. “We really would love to have 10 or 20 drivers,” BCPS Transportation Director David Phelps said Tuesday, the day before classes start for the 2022-23 school year. “… I would love to have six or eight tomorrow ready to go.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Ethan the Dog — one of Kentucky Humane Society's most famous faces — is up for a national award. Ethan was found clinging to life in January 2021 outside the Kentucky Humane Society in Louisville. Starving and near death, he was nursed back to health and is now heading to Florida to receive an award for Shelter Hero Dog in the 2022 American Humane Hero Dog Awards.

If you look around, parts of Louisville are littered with trash.  I see it all the time. Someone pulls up next to me at a stoplight, rolls their window down and chucks out a piece of trash.  I'll never understand why people litter. It's lazy and disrespectful. . I...

LOUISVILLE, KY. (WDRB) -- Jack Harlow might be a rapper, but at a Louisville stadium on Wednesday night he wasn't performing. He was playing kickball. Harlow, local hip-hop group The Homies and some of the biggest UofL, UK and LouCity stars competed in a kickball tournament at Jim Patterson Stadium.

IMAGES | Jack Harlow and former UofL, UK stars participate in Louisville celebrity kickball tournament. This was the third year for The Homies Celebrity Kickball Tournament. Harlow took pictures and talked with fans.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A team from the Louisville Water Company is helping parts of eastern Kentucky rebuild the water infrastructure that was damaged during flooding. The crew spent days surveying the hard-hit northeastern part of Hazard, Kentucky. They located and assessed broken or exposed water mains. They hope to help Hazard leaders plan the best and fastest ways to make repairs.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Less than a week after Jefferson County Public Schools delayed the opening of a new elementary school, district leaders cut the ceremonial ribbon on another Monday. More than 540 students at Indian Trail Elementary School will walk into a brand new, $16.5 million building when the...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Hardin County Schools let some students go home an hour early on the first day Wednesday so bus drivers could get used to their routes. Normal dismissal for all students starts Thursday. As of right now, the district has a bus driver for every route. But...

CRESTWOOD, Ky. (WDRB) -- Students at Oldham County Schools headed back to class Wednesday. The Oldham County school district consists of a preschool, nine elementary schools, four middle schools, three high schools, an alternative school, a career center and a center for the arts and community education. "It was incredible...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Twenty-six people arrested for demonstrations after the police killing of Breonna Taylor will go on trial together. They're all charged with obstructing a highway during a protest that blocked traffic on the Clark Memorial/Second Street Bridge in June of 2020. The County Attorney's Office moved to...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Patrick O'Bryan's competitive baseball career seemingly ended after his freshman season at St. Xavier High School. But it was revived nine years ago when he joined the Kentuckiana Adult Baseball age 50-and-over league. "I love to pitch," said O'Bryan. "I'm competitive and I just wanted to...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- After a string of resignations, including leadership, Bullitt County's mayor said he's excited about the fire department's new direction. The new chief of the Lebanon Junction Fire Department is Adam Heath. Mayor Larry Dangerfield said Heath has years of experience with the Shepherdsville department. Heath is...

WFO LOUISVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 9, 2022. ...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected. * WHERE...Portions of EAST CENTRAL Kentucky and NORTH CENTRAL. Kentucky, including the following counties, in EAST CENTRAL. Kentucky, Franklin. In NORTH...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- With many families living paycheck to paycheck, Louisville Metro Council is asking state legislators to help decrease costs of necessities for children and women. On Monday, Mayor Greg Fischer signed two resolutions that call for Kentucky legislators to eliminate the state's sales tax on diapers and...