Paramedics and emergency medical technicians are allowed to drive ambulances with sirens and lights on when transporting patients to hospitals and responding to emergencies.
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is preparing to install new pavement markers on the East-West Connector and U.S. 421.
Frankfort city commissioners expressed support for a two-way West Main Street earlier this year, but the groundwork is still in progress.
A historic monument dedicated to a Frankfort school that served black students before racial integration is in storage.
A historic monument dedicated to a Frankfort school that served black students before racial integration is in storage.
A Frankfort company is developing land at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and the East-West Connector.
If you have driven on Versailles Road recently, you may have noticed the framework of a new building under construction.
Two magistrates on the Franklin County Fiscal Court were issued cellphones during their current terms.
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has repeatedly closed Lafayette Drive for repairs.
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced that it will issue REAL ID driver’s licenses beginning in Franklin and Woodford counties sometime this spring.
Sometimes, signs just get dirty with wear.
In the past, locating cellphone users during 911 calls could be difficult. Now, a new system helps identify their location accurately.
Both Franklin County and Frankfort residents can use curbside recycling bins to get rid of waste in an environmentally friendly way.
The Old YMCA building’s fate has been discussed by the Frankfort City Commission in several closed sessions. A reader asked if any plans have been made public about the deteriorating building adjacent to the Singing Bridge downtown.
“Anyone know what kind of secret military base is being built along the river just down from the Buffalo Trace launch ramp in Kentucky River Pool 3?” a State Journal reader asked on Facebook, and he wasn’t alone. Several readers have asked us about the presence of large cranes and other acti…
If you’ve driven between Frankfort and Lexington recently, you may have noticed that the rest areas near the Franklin-Woodford County line have been closed for a few weeks.
Don’t panic. Cloudy water coming out of the faucet occasionally is normal, according to the Frankfort Plant Board.
A reader asked The State Journal about the political affiliations of the four directors of the Frankfort Plant Board after Mayor Bill May chose Jeff Bradshaw to fill the municipal utility’s vacant fifth, citing Bradshaw’s status as a registered independent as a “deciding factor” in his nomination.
With winter well underway and the first snow of the season having fallen, a reader submitted this question after witnessing a pedestrian walking in the street downtown because sidewalks were snow-covered.
A mix of an abundance of precipitation and a steady stream of construction vehicles coming and going from the site of the Capital Plaza redevelopment project has left portions of Wilkinson Boulevard caked in mud.
According to city ordinance, all political and campaign signs should be removed within five days after an election. The 2018 general election occurred on Nov. 6, which gave candidates until the 11th to collect yard signs.
The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Court Security Policy states that all individuals are required to have their belongings X-rayed and pass through the magnetometers (MAGS) to enter the Franklin County Courthouse. However, there are exemptions.
Franklin County Sheriff Pat Melton will be heading out the door at the close of 2018, but will he be taking his Ford pickup truck donated to the sheriff’s office in 2016?
For months, those driving along Glenns Creek Road have been likely to encounter construction work in the area near where the railroad tracks cross the road.
Frankfort might have a plan for the future of its downtown, but how the YMCA sees itself in that future remains uncertain.
It is no secret that Frankfort’s infrastructure is being overburdened by the heavy machinery lugging equipment and materials to and from the construction site of a new state office building downtown.
Frankfort and Franklin County are soon to see lots of new faces take elected office, but when exactly will that happen?
An exact number of attendees at Franklin County High School and Western Hills High School graduation ceremonies isn’t something administrators can provide because it’s not something they track, said Superintendent Mark Kopp.
Franklin County’s 1 percent occupational tax is levied on both salaries and wages of employees and net profits of businesses that operate in the county.
When winners of Tuesday’s city and county elections take their seats next year, magistrates will receive larger regular paychecks than their peers on the Frankfort City Commission.
Frankfort has applied for a federal grant to provide funds for a plan to revitalize the Holmes Street corridor, but City Manager Cindy Steinhauser said the resulting document will not conflict with one created for the same area in the mid-2000s.
Starting at 45 and ending at 15, numbers painted on beams beneath the inbound and outbound West Frankfort Connector bridges over the Kentucky River provide boaters with an estimate of vertical clearance.
Fast-food workers are not required to receive hepatitis A vaccinations, but a number of restaurants have opted to voluntarily contract with the Health Department amid an outbreak that’s been called the worst in the nation.
According to Frankfort Police Capt. Chris Quire, the department gets calls fairly often about handicapped parking enforcement, especially in store parking lots.
A reader asked about the permission process for installing sculptures along the river at River View Park and whether public input was taken prior to the installations at the park.
The answer is quite simple: When the longtime senator, war hero and presidential candidate passed away Saturday, Post 7 Commander Silas M. Noel was out of town and only returned Thursday morning.
Competition, location and when you purchase gasoline are all factors in fluctuating prices.
In need of a newer building with a better layout, Kenvirons Inc. is refitting the space formerly occupied by Gatti’s Pizza at 770 Wilkinson Blvd. to accommodate a professional office.
While no injuries occurred in a minor plane crash at Capital City Airport on Monday, Frankfort’s emergency dispatch was not notified of the incident, E-911 Dispatch Director Deron Rambo said.
Franklin County High School has not been the only school to get security upgrades in recent months.
A Lafayette Drive pothole is on the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s radar, an official said.
“Rolling smoke” is a safety hazard to other drivers on the road, law enforcement officials say.
Some businesses operating in Frankfort need a business license to operate in the city.
The case against Alvin and Jennifer Cummins has been stalled in Shelby County Circuit Court for the past few months.
Frankfort fire hydrants are getting a new coat of colors.
For many years, Franklin County high school graduates did not have to leave Frankfort to receive their diplomas.
Nearly two months to the day after a fire at Cattleman’s Roadhouse, a steakhouse staple in the capital city for 10 years, the restaurant reopened on March 5.
For weeks, all that has remained of the Frankfort Convention Center has been a mysterious stretch of wall standing defiantly amid the rubble that was once the Capital Plaza.
As local leaders weigh how to redevelop a soon-to-be vacant lot adjacent to the former Capital Plaza Tower, they’ve repeatedly raised the prospect of introducing tax increment financing — a “TIF” — to the area.
County planning staff have already approved a grading permit and will consider approving a development plan next week for a Goodwill store on U.S. 60, also known as Versailles Road.
For many visitors to downtown Frankfort, their first impression is an image of a rusty railroad overpass and a bridge to nowhere.
