Commercial property values are declining across Boone County, as the recession drives vacancies up and rents down.

FRANKFORT - A federal grand jury has returned a superceding indictment in a case that involves contracts awarded by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.

A remote-controlled toy backhoe loader dug into a small dirt mound Friday signaling the start of construction of the new Kenton County Detention Center off Mary Laidley Drive.

Gov. Steve Beshear's ever-evolving agenda for the June 15 special session now includes a tax incentive for the operators of the Kentucky Speedway in Gallatin County.

President Obama may have been thinking big with his $787 billion stimulus package, but local governments are thinking decidedly small: sidewalks, curbs, playground equipment.

After more than two years of considering the value of a regional United Way - serving nearly every community between Northern Kentucky and Dayton, Ohio - a potential plan appears to be on the table.

Building code inspectors told Cincinnati police Officer Karen Parker that the three-family Walnut Hills home she owned must be torn down. But it still stands, and now she's in court.

Deaconess Hospital has laid off about 50 workers - more than 10 percent of its employees - in a restructuring move that includes closing its Surgical Weight Loss Center.

Heading downtown tonight? You won't be the only one. Ideal weather, a concert by Keith Urban and Taylor Swift, and the Reds-Cubs game will bring out crowds.

He sleeps under a bridge, washes in a public bathroom and was panhandling for booze money 11 months ago, but now Larry Moore is the best-dressed shoeshine man in the city. When he gets up from his cardboard mattress, he

Pooping pigeons pester patron at South San Francisco BART station What's not working: Gaylord Garcia regularly uses BART's South San Francisco Station, where pigeons have taken to perching themselves directly above the south end of the platform. The pigeons...

Caltrain officials appear poised to cut midday service by half, raise parking fees 50 percent and charge more for the monthly GO Pass to close a projected deficit nearing $3 million. The Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, which oversees Caltrain,

It hasn't been the easiest of beginnings - rejected by his mother and raised by a different species. But it's a new day for Hasani, the 6-month-old endangered western lowland baby gorilla who makes his public debut today at the

Larry Moore shined so many shoes on Thursday that he ran through two bottles of polish. Then there were the women who walked up to give him a hug, the tourists who had their photo taken with him, and the

Federal regulators prescribed sweeping changes Thursday to the dams, reservoirs and pumps that supply water to two-thirds of California in an effort to restore a salmon population whose steep decline has sounded an environmental alarm and led to the...

A shelter-in-place warning for Tenderloin residents has been lifted, but 4,000 Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers are still without power because of an underground explosion and fire that damaged the utility's equipment, authorities said. The blast...

A passing motorist helped the mother of a Palo Alto high school student keep the boy from committing suicide on the Caltrain tracks at the same crossing where two fellow students killed themselves in the past month, police said today

Four people were hurt Thursday evening when a taxi slammed into two cable cars that were sitting near the Powell Street turnaround, authorities said. The front bumper on the Arrow Cab's passenger side smashed into the cable cars around 5