DALLAS – WKU Hilltopper Basketball’s Dayvion McKnight was named Conference USA Player of the Week for his dominant performance across WKU’s latest three victories, the league announced Monday afternoon. Over the three games, McKnight averaged 23.7 points, 5.7 rebounds and 3.7 assists. He shot 59% from the field during the week and made 17 of 20 free throws while playing 116…
DALLAS – Bailey Curry delivered an otherworldly weekend for WKU Softball as the Red and White produced a perfect 5-0 weekend to win the Hilltopper Classic Championship, which the Conference USA office recognized on Monday with the league’s Player of the Week honor. She slashed .600/.667/.933 across the weekend as WKU climbed to 8-1 on the season and has tallied at least…
Laurel Johnston is a marketing student at Western Kentucky University, the Co-President of the Women in Business, and the social media coordinator of Sublime Media Group in Bowling Green. She is this week’s Emerging Leader.
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Gov. Andy Beshear and Energy and Environment Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Goodman announced today that 387 Kentucky farm projects in 85 counties were selected by the Kentucky Soil and Water Conservation Commission to receive a total of $4,301,038 in tobacco settlement funds. The money will be used to promote practices to help maintain water quality and prevent soil…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — A 60-year-old woman fell inside an unmapped region of Mammoth Cave National Park Saturday. The experienced caver was with the Cave Research Foundation when the fall took place, injuring her shoulder. The group had travelled 2.5 miles into the cave, which takes about two and a half hours to reach. A member of the CRF group…
Jared Spice got to see The Winter Olympics up-close and personal this year! He joins SoKY Sunrise’s Lexi Schweinert from across the world via Zoom to talk about his experience working behind-the-scenes at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
In this week’s Monday Motivator, we tell the story of a band that started here in the Bluegrass and now travels around the country.
On today’s Sunrise Spotlight presented by German American Bank, Issa Mansaray with FEMA and Tauheedah Mateen with SBA join us in-studio to talk about the recently extended deadline to file for federal assistance following December’s tornado. For more info, click here.
Just as several states lift COVID-19 mask mandates, there are some concerning new findings about a sub-varient of the Omicron variant called BA-2. The sub-variant has already been detected in 47 states, but how worried should we be? We’ll take a closer look at some new research in today’s Health News.
