College affordability is a growing concern, but scholarships help put higher education in reach for families. In October, Morehead State University announced a three-year Soar to New Heights Scholarship Campaign to raise $15 million in scholarship funding.

A distilling company from the 1800s is coming back to Nelson County. Log Still will include a distillery, bottling facility, rickhouses and visitor center with a gift shop and tasting room.

All that bourbon has to be aged in something, so the bourbon boom has increased demand for barrels. That’s why Pennington Stave and Cooperage Corp. is investing $34.4 million in a Metcalfe County mill.

Developing the perfect pre-work routine can help maximize your daily productivity. Start this week by implementing the following routines:

If you’re traveling through the Louisville area this summer, you can save money with a little planning in advance. Three of the bridges connecting Louisville and southern Indiana are tolled, and new RiverLink toll rates begin every July 1.

“My goal is to stand naked in a waterfall in every state,” I joked to my fellow hikers. While that isn’t really a goal (too cold, too modest), if it was I’d start with Ash Cave in Hocking Hills, Ohio, where the water cascaded off a massive inverted sandstone cliff into a large shallow pool.

Kentuckians know what a great vacation spot our state is, offering good bourbon, bluegrass music, a sweeping countryside and a whole lot of culture. But it’s nice to hear the rest of the country has noticed our brag-worthy status as well.

If St. Patrick’s Day is a distant memory and your Irish eyes are no longer smilin’, take a road trip to the Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival for a hit of the green.

Summers in Kentucky are famed. There’s something about the smell of just-cut bluegrass, a kid’s laughter while splashing in the pool or a sunset fading behind a rolling hill that makes Kentucky home.

Avi Bear, a chef and pastry artist, has made Avi’s Oven Art the go-to place in Cynthiana for pastries and cakes. Now he’s catering to dogs.

Kentucky is a world leader in logistics – the delivering of goods to customers. It’s a field employing 64,000 people in the state and processing 2.1 million packages a day.

The most important lessons learned from my first summer jobs – be a resourceful problem solver, drink plenty of water and don’t stand up in a canoe.