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The second annual hot air balloon festival, hosted at Black Bear Casino Resort over the weekend, featured fun for the entire family.

Kismet's Hot Air Balloon Festival is happening at the Black Bear Casino with local music, tasty treats, & a ride in a hot air balloon.

DSU Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Computer and Cyber Sciences have new deans.

The Northland's largest candy store hopes to bring iconic hot air ballooning back with an annual event.

As part of the consortium, graduate students from DSU and Sweden will spend 4 weeks at DSU, 4 weeks in Sweden and 2 weeks on program development.

A trend is developing inside Lexington’s hospitals, and it’s adding to an already taxing workload for hospital staff members.

Lexington hospitals are struggling as the Omicron variant causes a surge of COVID-19 infections. WUKY's Arlo Barnette reports.

COVID-19 hospitalization numbers at all three of Louisvilles major hospitals and many hospitals across the state have risen over the past week.

The Omicron variant, while less virulent, is highly contagious, and it's overwhelming Kentucky healthcare facilities. Last week, Kentucky's COVID-19 positivity rate was the highest ever, with 56,603 reported new cases.

Five Baptist Health Lexington employees receive COVID-19 vaccine on Monday and last updated 2020-12-15 00:55:15-05 LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Five employees of Baptist Health Lexington received the initial dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. Yuli Vallaran (intensivist), Linda Sherlock (housekeeper), Mark Spanier (Medical Doctor), Sharon Shireman (ED Patient Care Technician) and one other employee received the vaccination early on Monday afternoon. The five employees rece...