Author: WNKY Staff

Emerging Leader – Tiye Gardner

This edition of Emerging Leader highlights Tiye Gardner, a volunteer involved with the $100 Solution House at Western Kentucky University. Gardner also started a bullying awareness fashion show when she was in high school, which has since grown into a Black Lives Matter-inspired fashion show, the fifth of which to premiere later this year.

Kentucky Department of Public Health issues guidelines related to severe flooding

FRANKFORT, Ky.- The Department for Public Health (DPH), within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), reminds Kentuckians to follow safety guidelines following severe flooding and water run-off events from recent rainfall across the state. “We urge Kentuckians to use caution in flooded areas, and once floodwaters recede and the clean-up begins, to keep yourself and your family safe,”…

Deputies arrest Bowling Green woman on drug charges

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – While attempting to serve an arrest warrant Saturday, deputies located the Bowling Green woman they were looking for who had been hiding inside of a closet at a home in Greenwood Estates Mobile Home Park. Deputies arrested Geneva Beth Johnson, 28, on charges of first-degree possession of a controlled substance first offense (methamphetamine), first-degree trafficking in…

Mobile science activity center to visit 2 county schools

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — The Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s high-tech Mobile Science Activity Center will visit Lost River Elementary Feb. 26 through Feb. 28 and Rich Pond Elementary March 5 through March7 to teach students about agriculture and its vital role in their everyday lives. Three activity centers travel to schools statewide to give students the opportunity to conduct scientific…

Heavy rain brings hazardous driving conditions and flooded roads to the District 3 area

Per Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, District 3 BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (Feb. 23, 2019) – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 3 area has been impacted by heavy rains tonight following a rainy week as well. Motorists should be very cautious if out on the roadways tonight and tomorrow. There is lots of water on roadways and hydroplaning is a major concern. Numerous roadways…