Regional

FRANKFORT, Ky. - With highway construction season kicking off in April, orange barrels and freshly laid blacktop have become a common site throughout the state, but the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is also paving the way this spring for one of nature’s black and orange phenomenon: the monarch butterfly. In addition to continuing the Cabinet’s traditional planting of wildflowers along state roadsides, KYTC agronomists will be establishing monarch butterfly habitats – called waystations – for the diminishing species.

Staff Report
The Madison City Police Department arrested a 31-year-old Madison man in connection with a stabbing incident, which resulted in injuries to three individuals, according to a news release from MPD Chief Dan Thurston.

FRANKFORT — Kentucky Proud has unveiled Buy Local, a new program intended to encourage restaurants and other food service businesses to purchase locally produced food products, Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles has announced.

FRANKFORT, KY. – Attorney General Andy Beshear and the Kentucky Council of Churches have announced a statewide partnership to prevent child abuse and scams targeting seniors.
With the collaboration, the council will provide warning signs of child abuse and scam prevention information to its 1,100 member churches statewide.
Beshear and the Council share a common mission — to better protect some of the state’s most vulnerable populations: children and seniors.