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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Louisville police are investigating a shooting that happened Tuesday afternoon in south Louisville near McNeely Lake Park. LMPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell said officers were called to respond to the 6500 block of Brook Bend Way around 2:30 p.m. When they arrived, they found a man shot....

Nearly half of Kentucky's United Methodist Church congregations were granted a split from the denomination this week, significantly shrinking the church's footprint in the state. Voting delegates at the UMC's Kentucky Annual Conference passed the measure on its opening Sunday night in Owensboro, garnering 89% of the vote in favor...

NEW ALBANY, Ind. — A complaint about a New Albany business has caused some uproar on social media and possibly some positive change. Jim Bulleit said he was denied access to ‘The Enchanted Forest’ at the Floyd County Brewing Company because of his wheelchair. “I wasn't witnessed...

The man killed in a shooting in Louisville has been identified and a suspect is now in custody. Louisville Metro police officers were called to the 7400 block of St. Anthony Church Road on Sunday at about 11:30 p.m. They found that a man had been shot and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

A Louisville man has been indicted after an undercover operation, focused on child sexual exploitation. Indictment returned in Louisville child exploitation, …. A Louisville man has been indicted after an undercover operation, focused on child sexual exploitation. June 6: part time jobs, breast feeding, and ticks. Here are five things...

After the recent closure of the Algonquin pool, many west Louisville residents are left without a local pool, amid sweltering heat and limited alternatives.

Settlement negotiations have been scheduled in three federal civil cases involving the Clark County jail, stemming from allegations by multiple women who say they were assaulted over the course of several hours in October 2021.

The problem hasn't been settled in years. The New Albany mayor said the animal control and shelter is behind more than $1 million. Here's why it ended.

NEW ALBANY, Ind. (WDRB) -- Some drivers crossing the Sherman Minton Bridge recently have reported their vehicles have been hit by a wet mixture called slurry. Indiana Department of Transportation officials say the semi-liquid slurry is created during concrete sawing operations, when the water that cools the saw blade mixes with concrete dust.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A man known by his family as someone who helps others in need was shot and killed Sunday evening. According to police, Victor Chavez was gunned down in an apartment complex parking lot after his family said he was helping someone find a job. LMPD was...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Rock Creek Horse Show has been around for 86 years. WDRB’s Keith Kaiser explored the Louisville Classic going on now through Saturday, June 10, 2023. The Rock Creek Horse Show honors the nation’s top American Saddlebred show horses and Hackney ponies. This 5-night...

NEW ALBANY, Ind. — It's been a problem that hasn't been settled in years. New Albany's mayor said the county's animal control and shelter is behind on more than a million dollars in payments as part of an operating agreement. "Our numbers would definitely go up and it would...

The blare of an approaching train would send Sadie Iovenko to her grandfather to beg him to take her a few houses down to the Buechel train depot. She’d tally the rail cars rolling past the old wooden building, counting as high as she could. It’s a fond memory...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has released the first findings into the deaths of three horses at Churchill Downs. Since April, there have been 12 horse deaths at the world-renowned racetrack. It's such an unusual spike in equine deaths that officials have paused horse racing at...

CLARK/SCOTT COUNTY, Ind.— Indiana Department of Transportation contractor E&B Paving Inc. plans to begin work next week on a $5.4 million asphalt resurface contract in Clark and Scott Counties. Beginning on or after Monday, June 12 motorists should anticipate lane closures from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through...

A man has been arrested in connection with a deadly southwest Louisville shooting. Louisville Metro Police say they arrested 34-year-old Carlos Galeano-Fugueroa and charged him with murder and first-degree robbery. The arrest is in connection with a man who was found dead after being shot multiple times in a rear...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville Metro Police have already responded to more than several dozen homicides just six months into this year. But police are not the only ones trying to stop the city's gun violence problem. So far in 2023, there have been more than 70 murders, keeping homicide...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Louisville child showcased his talents to all of America last week. D'Corey Johnson, 11, sang a cappella on America's Got Talent after Judge Simon Cowell asked him to sing. Johnson originally went viral two years ago when he sang the National Anthem at Bates Elementary.

The voter engagement campaign, announced on what would have been Breonna Taylor’s 30th birthday, is fueled in part by Cameron’s handling of the investigation into Taylor’s killing at the hands of Louisville Metro Police Department. Cameron drew controversy for failing to indict LMPD officers for killing 26-year-old...

Two Jackson county women were charged with possession of cocaine and other drug related offenses in the early morning hours of Saturday, May 27, in Scott County. According to Scott County Deputy Kacey Reschar, he was patrolling on US 31 on Scottsburg’s northside shortly after 1 a.m. when a dark colored passenger vehicle also traveling north turned on its right turn signal then turned it off. A short time later as the vehicles reached the Scott County Health Department, the passenger vehicle turned on its right turn sign and merged into the right turn lane and stopped.