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West KY NOWMarch is Women’s History Month and women throughout the Commonwealth are celebrating, including the West Kentucky Chapter of the National Organization for Women. In 2026, NOW is commemorating 60 years of working for women. And West Kentucky NOW President and Associate Professor of History, Dr. Christine Lindner joined us to share a little more of the organization’s history and what they see for the future. -
Cheri LawsonBath County, Kentucky, celebrated a historic occurrence, the meat shower of 1876.
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The Rev. Lisa Lewis Balboa, senior pastor of Freeman Chapel CME Church in Hopkinsville, has been elected president of the Kentucky Council of Churches. -
A Louisville labor union hosted a candlelight vigil on Thursday to honor the dead and injured from this week’s UPS plane crash. -
A new line of spice blends cooked up by a celebrity chef is benefiting a western Kentucky domestic crisis center, employing survivors of domestic violence while also raising funds for the nonprofit. -
The 49th annual Country Ham Festival took place in Cadiz this past weekend, honoring the western Kentucky area’s connection to the dry-cured delicacy. -
Every year, St. Jerome Catholic Church draws thousands of visitors to its Fancy Farm Picnic fundraiser in Graves County, Kentucky, with its food, games, and fiery political speeches. WKMS's Will Darnall sends an audio postcard from the 145th edition.
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Kentucky followed national trends of declining educational scores in 2024 following pandemic-era lows, while seeing some moderate improvements in economic well being, according to recently released KIDS COUNT data. -
On one of the first warm and sunny Saturday afternoons of the year at a shooting range in Boaz – a rural community in far western Kentucky – a group of women and LGBTQ+ community members joined together to learn the basics of gun safety. -
A recent executive order by President Donald Trump stops transgender, intersex and nonbinary people from updating the gender marker on their passports. Now, some Kentuckians say they are getting passports with the wrong gender marker. -
Dozens of members of Mayfield’s Hispanic community chanted and marched in the western Kentucky city Monday as part of “A Day Without Immigrants,” a nationwide initiative protesting recent anti-immigrant policies and highlighting the role that immigrants play in the U.S. economy. -
A chance encounter in a Colorado coffee shop drive-thru line and a quick conversation at a grocery store.
