Kicking off a graduation season like no other, Western Kentucky University will recognize nearly 4,200 students who graduated during the fall 2020 and spring 2021 semesters with commencement ceremonies Saturday at Houchens-Smith Stadium.
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One year into the coronavirus pandemic, Kentucky’s college students report spikes in anxiety and mental fatigue, greater difficulty in affording tuition and a shaken sense of confidence in their long-term postsecondary education plans.
One week after its opening, Gov. Andy Beshear toured the new Kroger coronavirus vaccination site at the Greenwood Mall, touting a broader statewide system of similar centers “that is months ahead of where we reasonably could have anticipated being at this point.”
Hoping to bounce back after seeing its refugee arrivals dwindle under former President Donald Trump’s administration, Bowling Green’s International Center is proposing to resettle up to 500 refugees in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2021.
With seven straight weeks of declining COVID-19 cases under its belt, Kentucky officially launched Phase 1C of the vaccine rollout Monday.
Warren County Public Schools students are set to go back to their classrooms for the district’s first week of fully in-person instruction in nearly a year – a plan that was initially scheduled to begin Monday, but high water resulting from Sunday's heavy rainfall forced the district to begin…
Kentucky is continuing to ramp up its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, with Gov. Andy Beshear on Thursday announcing 119 additional sites across the state, bringing the state’s total to 410 locations.
With six straight weeks of declining coronavirus cases in Kentucky and schools working toward full vaccination for their employees, Warren County Public Schools and the Bowling Green Independent School District plan to fully reopen for students next week.
Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday that Kentucky’s local health departments and regional coronavirus vaccination centers – including the Bowling Green location at Greenwood Mall – are gearing up to launch Phase 1C starting March 1. People who are high-risk for severe COVID-19 will continue to be …
Without a federal exemption from state testing for public schools in hand, Kentucky is moving ahead with exams this spring with a plan that includes flexible testing windows and in-person assessment for virtual students, among other changes.
With President Joe Biden moving to increase the nation’s refugee admissions, the International Center of Kentucky is preparing for an uptick in arrivals to Bowling Green that could even spill over into surrounding counties.
As Kentucky’s coronavirus cases continue to decline, its access to vaccine is steadily increasing.
The past year hasn’t been easy for Laura Rigsby Orsland and her family.
Kroger Health and Commonwealth of Kentucky opened a new COVID-19 vaccination site to the public at the former Sears in the Greenwood Mall on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021.
As Warren County Public Schools and the Bowling Green Independent School District prepare to fully reopen their schools next month, new state guidance makes clear that school districts are not required to extend work accommodations to employees who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Gov. Andy Beshear announced 1,003 new COVID-19 cases Monday – the lowest number he had reported since December – but virus deaths remained high.
Firing back at a Republican-led rollback of his emergency powers, Gov. Andy Beshear lifted a hefty stack of papers Wednesday to illustrate how many federal COVID-19 guidance documents he said businesses would have to parse on their own if the GOP effort withstands his legal challenge.
Anticipating that many of its staff will receive booster shots of the coronavirus vaccine next week – resulting in full vaccination against COVID-19 by the end of February – Warren County Public Schools Superintendent Rob Clayton said Tuesday that the district plans to return to full capacit…
Anticipating the arrival of coronavirus booster shots – a crucial step for the majority of its workforce to reach full vaccination against COVID-19 – the Bowling Green Independent School District said it plans to fully reopen its schools for in-person classes March 2.
Gov. Andy Beshear reported 1,623 new COVID-19 cases Monday but said the state has now seen three consecutive weeks of decreasing numbers of coronavirus case totals. The state’s positivity rate has also been decreasing and is now at 8.85%.
Michele Kors and Kevin Yates, who were hired last July to staff the Southcentral Small Business Development Center after it was resurrected by local government and economic development groups, still haven’t set foot in their offices in the Western Kentucky University Center for Research and …
TriStar Greenview Regional Hospital has started administering the monoclonal antibody therapeutic bamlanivimab for treating non-hospitalized patients with mild or moderate confirmed cases of COVID–19.
Coronavirus deaths continued to surge Thursday in Kentucky as Gov. Andy Beshear announced a daily record of 69 deaths, bringing the state’s overall death toll to 3,611. A 74-year-old woman in Warren County was among those deaths.
As of Thursday morning, the Barren River District Health Department had administered more than 4,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, but it has a waiting list of at least 2,700. Those individuals are not likely to get vaccines for several more weeks.
After pushing the federal government for more COVID-19 vaccines, Kentucky will see a supply increase of 17%, allowing the state to administer about 8,800 additional doses each week going forward, Gov. Andy Beshear said Wednesday.
Kentucky continued to see a decrease in new coronavirus cases Monday, with Gov. Andy Beshear reporting the lowest number of new cases the state has seen in the past four weeks: 1,268. The state’s test positivity rate fell below 10%.
An outbreak of the COVID-19 respiratory disease in the Warren County Regional Jail is nearly under control, according to Jailer Stephen Harmon.
With 58 more deaths, Thursday was the deadliest day yet in what Gov. Andy Beshear called Kentucky’s ongoing war with COVID-19.
On Tuesday, as the country topped 400,000 coronavirus deaths for the first time, Gov. Andy Beshear hit back at Republican supermajorities in the state House and Senate, which approved legislation that would clip his emergency powers.
On Tuesday, Western Kentucky University students will return for the start of classes, but once again, it won’t be a typical semester in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
Gov. Andy Beshear on Tuesday announced more than 3,000 new COVID-19 cases statewide. His report included 22 additional virus deaths, and the state’s test positivity rate was 12.23%, a slight drop from Monday’s rate.
As students returned to school Monday, local educators lined up at The Medical Center at Bowling Green to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
On the same day the country topped 4,000 daily coronavirus deaths for the first time, Gov. Andy Beshear said Kentucky had reached a “tough point once again in our war against COVID-19,” announcing the third-highest case total he’s ever reported.
Gov. Andy Beshear reported 3,895 new coronavirus cases Thursday and 34 new deaths, making it the second-highest day for new cases and the third-highest day for newly reported virus deaths. The top three highest totals for new deaths were reported on three consecutive days this week.
Calling it his “primary mission,” Gov. Andy Beshear on Tuesday defended the state’s efforts to administer the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine, Beshear said.
On a day when five former Kentucky governors and 11 members of the current General Assembly leadership publicly received COVID-19 vaccines, Gov. Andy Beshear expressed his frustration with how quickly those vaccines are being rolled out in the state.
It’s safe to say that 2020 threw a lot of families’ plans into the woodchipper.
Warning of exponential coronavirus case growth across Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear on Tuesday announced 2,690 new cases, including 70 new cases in Warren County.
Overwhelmed by what it described as the “unrestrained spread” of COVID-19 across the state, the Barren River District Health Department announced Tuesday that it will no longer conduct contact tracing in its eight-county region – meaning local school districts will be picking up the slack.
The tides have turned for refugee agencies across the country as they anticipate a new presidential administration they hope will rebuild the nation’s resettlement program.
With the end of the fall semester approaching and the holidays looming, many local parents are wondering how classes will continue after winter break.
Gov. Andy Beshear on Tuesday reported 3,057 new COVID-19 cases, along with 28 additional deaths, warning Kentuckians to take care in how they celebrate the holidays this year, or else they risk spreading the coronavirus to their families.
Gov. Andy Beshear announced 1,988 new coronavirus cases statewide Monday, along with 15 additional deaths, even as he welcomed the arrival of the first doses of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine this week – with more than 100,000 initial doses expected before year’s end.
As coronavirus rages across Kentucky, local schools are weighing what form of instruction they should use after winter break. On Thursday, during Warren County Public Schools’ annual State of the District address, parents got an update on when WCPS might make that call.
Kentucky’s public school superintendents breathed a sigh of relief last week when they received news that current-year state budget cuts would be taken off the table and that revenue collections were bullish thanks to federal coronavirus relief.
Kentucky experienced its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic Thursday, with Gov. Andy Beshear announcing 54 new deaths. Among the deaths was an 88-year-old Logan County woman, the governor said.
Gov. Andy Beshear on Wednesday announced 2,898 new coronavirus cases and 23 deaths but called the arrival of the first vaccines the “beginning of the end of the coronavirus crisis.”
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Wednesday he continues to be against a proposed new coronavirus relief bill that would add to the country’s bulging deficit.
When he volunteered to be the first Med Center Health employee to take the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 on Monday, Dr. William Moss couldn’t help but think of his late colleague Dr. Rebecca Shadowen, who lost her life to the virus in September.
Proclaiming the “beginning of the end of COVID-19,” Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday announced the arrival of the first vaccines proven effective against the disease even as the country passed a grim milestone – reaching a total of 300,000 lives lost.
Gov. Andy Beshear on Thursday reported 4,324 new coronavirus cases, including 28 new deaths, but Beshear also pointed to a lower positivity rate – 9.13% – as a potential sign that the growth in new cases may be slowing.