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Parade · LouisvilleKentuckiana Pride organizers said this year's parade was the largest ever, with 10,000 marchers.Twenty years ago, the Kentuckiana Pride parade was just a city block long.Rodney Coffman, the festival’s director, said volunteering at his first Pride festival was liberating.He grew up in Dayton, Ohio and didn’t even know Pride existed until he moved to Louisville. He’s grateful for the experience of putting together the Kentuckiana Pride festival.“…See the Story
Sold-out 2024 Kentuckiana Pride could be a record in the festival’s history
Louisville, Kentucky · LouisvilleLouisville Metro Government left the Urban Government Center in 2016. Eight years later, it's working with a developer to finance a $249 million project on the site.(Jacob Munoz / LPM )Chain link fencing surrounds a nearly 12-acre site in Louisville’s small Paristown Pointe neighborhood near downtown. The city government vacated offices on the property in 2016, leaving behind the now boarded-up buildings.Louisville Metro Government is now on its…See the Story
Louisville officials advance Urban Government Center tax incentive amid controversy
Louisville, Kentucky · LouisvilleKentucky's Capitol in Frankfort. (Ryan Van Velzer / KPR)Long after Kentucky lawmakers have left this year’s General Assembly session behind, the decisions they made will linger for generations to come. But it can be hard to find a voting record linked to each lawmaker.Citizens have to search for individual bills and then find their lawmakers in a long list of names on a PDF file.Kentucky Public Radio created an easier way to track those votes th…See the Story
Check out the Legislative Vote Tracker Tool from Kentucky Public Radio
Louisville, Kentucky · LouisvilleTelowie was ready to greet visitors while eating his daily dose of eucalyptus leaves once the exhibit doors opened. (Giselle Rhoden / LPM )For the first time in more than two decades, koalas have returned to the Louisville Zoo: Dharuk, a two-year-old male and Telowie, a four-year-old male.The male duo, originally from the San Diego Zoo, arrived in Louisville like many out-of-town visitors: on a commercial flight with their own seats. San Diego Z…See the Story
Koalas make an adorable, yet sleepy return to the Louisville Zoo
Louisville, Kentucky · Louisville(Kristin Vogt / Pexels) You may have heard the news that the number of overdose deaths in the US has dropped, according to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but the problem isn't going away. More than 100,000 people in the U.S. In fact, teenagers are still dying of overdoses. Here's the most striking finding of this data. The majority of these adolescent overdose deaths are happening in the home.
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Most teenage overdose deaths happen at home. Here’s what parents need to know
Louisville, Kentucky · LouisvilleSam Satterly investigates a hazardous waste dump site known as Gully of the Drums in Jefferson Memorial Forest, a public park in Louisville, Ky. (Sam Satterly / Inside Climate News)LOUISVILLE, Ky.—City officials are taking their first public step toward cleaning up hazardous waste in a popular park after a local graduate student last year called out a 45-year comedy of errors by federal, state and local agencies that allowed the dumped drums an…See the Story
Louisville, Kentucky, Moves Toward Cleaning Up Its ‘Gully of the Drums’ After More Than Four Decades
Juneteenth · LouisvilleA local business owner is partnering with other community members and agencies for an all-day block party in Jeffersonville to celebrate Juneteenth. (Courtesy / Miguel Hampton )Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when many of the last African American enslaved people learned of the Emancipation Proclamation, which gave them their legal freedom.This week, Jeffersonville resident and local business owner Miguel Hampton wants to bring the co…See the Story