public safety

The National Weather Service says a "multi-day catastrophic and potentially historic" storm is expected to impact multiple states as violent weather was reported across the South and Midwest Thursday.

Multiple rounds of severe storms are expected to roll through Louisville starting Wednesday night.

Vaccine hesitancy has been growing in the U.S. in recent years. But as Texas measles cases rise and other states also report outbreaks, some parents want their kids to get their shots early.

An Indiana judge has reinstated members of a Utica fire board, finding they weren’t properly removed by the Clark County Commissioners earlier this month. It happened just in time for the fire board to approve a fire territory with Jeffersonville before the deadline next month.

A Southern Indiana mother is suing multiple municipalities, saying their negligence led to her son’s drowning death at a controversial low-head dam last May.

A task force focused on arresting and prosecuting people suspected of stealing copper wire from streetlights and utility poles is starting to show results, Louisville officials say.

At least twice a week, on average, a Norfolk Southern train with cars displaying hazardous material placards for vinyl chloride and butyl acrylate moves through the town.

Dozens of Kentuckians convicted for crimes committed at the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection received a full pardon from President Donald Trump as one of his first acts in office.

Louisville Metro’s Office of Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods is giving out up to 5,000 free gun locks this week to promote safe gun storage practices

Misty Wright and Chan Kemper will aim to help Louisville Metro address some of its most persistent problems.