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Louisville Pride Foundation/SubmittedThe Louisville Pride Foundation, one of the city’s major LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations, runs the city’s Pride festival and a community center. After five years at the helm, Executive Director Mike Slaton is leaving for a job with the Louisville Orchestra. -
Photo by J. Tyler Franklin/LPMMetro United Way is leading the YALift! program, which gave $500 to young adults each month for a year. The Louisville organization plans to publish findings from its guaranteed basic income pilot in 2024.
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Louisville’s community is watching the ongoing crisis in Israel and Gaza from afar and in real time. They’re hearing about it from family members on the ground, seeing it on TV and engaging in discourse on social media. That can create a deep sense of powerlessness. LPM News is sharing the experiences of Louisvillians and offering resources to help. -
An entire city in Jefferson County is slated to disappear, thanks to a relatively new Kentucky law. The municipality of Poplar Hills went defunct years ago and now the state is trying to get rid of it and other so-called “ghost cities.”
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State-level data from the latest American Community Survey shows Kentucky has the sixth highest poverty rate in the country. The rate is also well above the national average.
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One Eastern High School student and one adult were injured in a shooting when students got off a school bus in the Russell neighborhood Wednesday afternoon.
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The military has identified a prisoner of war from Kentucky who died in the Philippines during World War II. The remains of Army Pfc. Thomas Franklin Brooks of Mammoth Cave were confirmed in June, 80 years after his death.
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Current and former residents of Louisville’s California neighborhood gathered Saturday for the California Day celebration, a chance to connect with neighbors and old friends.
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After a snafu with bussing caused schools to be delayed more than a week, WFPL's education reporter Jess Clark and data reporter Justin Hicks picked a random JCPS bus schedule and tried to complete it.
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Fern Creek Baptist Church in Louisville was expelled in June by the Southern Baptist Convention, because it has a female pastor. Congregants at the church say still they support their pastor.
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The workout sessions give people with Parkinson’s disease a chance to exercise and socialize together. The number of participants at the Southwest Family YMCA has slowly grown since the center started offering the program there this year.
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Just over half of Kentucky’s 120 counties, including Jefferson, need people to join the state’s Citizen Foster Care Review Boards.
