In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

This year’s History Hop features three venues: the Ashland Henry Clay Estate, the Mary Todd Lincoln House, and the Lexington ...

(WKYT) - On this Valentine’s Day, two Lexington couples have a total of 126 years of marriage to celebrate. 94-year-old Clayton Smith and 92-year-old Shirley Smith tied the knot 71 years ago. It ...

The old Dunbar School in Lexington is now a North Carolina Local Historic Landmark after the Lexington City Council voted ...

As we continue our coverage of Black History Month, we are highlighting a Lexington-based nonprofit agribusiness. This year’s theme is ‘African Americans and Labor.’ ...

The watchword for the weekend is rain -- and potentially lots of it. With that in mind, Gov. Andy Beshear has placed Kentucky under a State of Emergency heading into Saturday.

It seems like foreshadowing that they met while playing the board game Life. Marietta Barton was 19 years old; Jeff Baxter was 21. Despite both growing up ...

Researchers are using diary entries, travel notes, religious registers, and other primary historical records to better understand extreme climate shifts in Transylvania during the 16th century.

In Autun, France, archaeologists discovered a 1,600-year-old fabric woven with gold threads in an ancient burial site. The fabric, once a symbol of elite aristocracy, was found in a lead coffin, along ...

There are some new signs alongside popular roads in Lexington. City officials say the new ‘250 LEX’ welcome signs are now up on Versailles Road, Richmond Road and Newtown Pike. The signs are in ...

Lexington’s recycling center can not take plastic bags. The new effort will turn plastic bags collected into a bench for Lextran riders.