This story has been updated to include comments from Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron on Tuesday asked Governor Andy Beshear to end what Cameron referred to as “targeting of faith-based gatherings” amid the global pandemic. Church gatherings are included among the mass gatherings to be avoided as part of the social-distancing […]
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State Sees Increase in Postsecondary Degrees, Credentials
Kentucky’s number of undergraduate degrees and credentials grew by 3.5 percent in the 2018-19 academic year, the Council on Postsecondary Education (CEP) reported on Monday. Nearly 47 percent of Kentucky adults now have a postsecondary credential, up from 42.5 percent in 2014. The state has a goal of 60 percent of the working-age population having a postsecondary […]
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COVID-19 in NKY: 40 Cases Confirmed Friday through Sunday
Forty more cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in a four-county region in Northern Kentucky from Friday to Sunday. The total number of confirmed cases now stands at 410. Kenton County has had 207 confirmed cases, while there have been 110 in Boone County, 77 in Campbell County, and 16 in Grant County. Twenty-eight people have […]
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Kentuckians Can Vote by Mail in June Primary
Governor Andy Beshear and Secretary of State Michael Adams announced Friday that they have reached an agreement on allowing voters to cast ballots by mail in the upcoming primary election, which was moved from May to June 23 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Secretary Adams sent Governor Beshear a formal letter of recommendation Thursday, and Friday […]
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34 Newly Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in NKY
Thirty-four additional cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Northern Kentucky on Thursday bringing the four-county region’s total to 370 since the global pandemic began. Kenton County has seen the most confirmed cases here with 195, while there have been 94 in Boone County, 66 in Campbell County, and 15 in Grant County. Twenty-eight people […]
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State Task Force Discusses Graduation Options for 2020 Seniors
The Kentucky Department of Education’s (KDE) Education Continuation Task Force met virtually on Tuesday to discuss how graduation for the 2020 senior class will be affected by Governor Andy Beshear’s recommendation that Kentucky schools continue to utilize non-traditional instruction for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year to help control the spread of COVID-19 in communities across the […]
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4 More Dead in NKY; 20 New COVID-19 Cases; Beshear Sees “Plateau”
Four more COVID-19-related deaths were confirmed in Northern Kentucky on Tuesday, along with 20 additional cases of the respiratory virus that is part of a global pandemic. Also on Tuesday, Governor Andy Beshear said that it appears that Kentucky has reached a plateau in its number of confirmed coronavirus cases. The Northern Kentucky Health Department […]
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Kentucky Voter Registration Flat in March; GOP Sees Slight Increase
Voter registration in Kentucky was flat in March, Secretary of State Michael G. Adams reported Tuesday. A total of 3.469,912 voters are registered as of March 31, an increase of 0.01 percent from the end of February. That percentage represents an additional 504 new registrants in the month. Democratic registrants represent just more than […]
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3 Additional COVID-19 Deaths, 7 Confirmed Cases Reported in NKY
Three more deaths attributed to COVID-19 were reported in Northern Kentucky on Monday. The Northern Kentucky Health Department reported that the one was a resident of Grant County in their 50s, and two others lived in Kenton County and were in their 70s and 90s, respectively. The four-county region has seen 23 total deaths […]
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Governor Recommends Schools Stay Closed for Rest of Academic Year
Governor Andy Beshear recommended on Monday that the suspension of in-person classes in Kentucky schools continue for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in communities across the state. In a teleconference call, Beshear told Kentucky’s public school superintendents that the school closure period that began March 16 should […]