A bill filed in the Kentucky General Assembly would address what its sponsors see as issues that grew out of Louisville’s city-county merger.

A final report from Louisville's Merger 2.0 Task Force has been handed to Mayor Greg Fischer.The task force was created last January to review the 2003…

The government consulting firm that released last week’s Metro Government merger report says the city may benefit from a more in-depth audit.Public Works,…

Jewish Hospital has cut 155 jobs at its Louisville facility.Officials have not returned a request for comment, but have issued a statement saying about 45…

The Louisville Merger 2.0 Task Force met in full on Friday. It brought together the five subcommittees for progress reports.The task force was formed in…

Several pages of the Louisville Courier-Journal will be dedicated to the pending University of Louisville hospital merger this weekend, but not editorial…

Mayor Greg Fischer formally approved the merger between two southwest Louisville fire departments on Monday.The all-volunteer fire station Dixie Suburban…

Louisville Metro Government's Merger 2.0 task force will hold its last public hearing tonight.The panel was assembled earlier this year to assess the…

The task force was formed earlier this year to study what has and has not worked since the 2003 city-county merger. Two key issues are urban services and fire protection. Currently, residents of the old city pay higher taxes and receive extra services. The panel will likely figure out whether those services could reasonably extended to the suburbs, where they are currently provided by small cities or private companies.

The task force is meant to find the problems and successes of the consolidation and recommend changes. Owen says it's too early to say what exactly the task force will do, but there are several issues he hopes it will take on. "There are some areas we could look at," he says. "I think we need to look at the economic development area, we may need to look at the structure of the government. I don't know if that's going to be part of the charge to this group. What I would like to look at and what we will look at might be two very different things."