Kentucky Science & Technology News

It ranks vehicles according to their emission characteristics and includes online tools to compare models. Last year, California adopted a regulation requiring auto manufacturers to affix an Environmental Performance Label to showroom vehicles to indicate specific models' smog and greenhouse...

R.I.— Health officials in Rhode Island expect their first batch of swine flu vaccine to arrive Saturday and will start distributing it early next week. The state Department of Health said Thursday it will distribute the first doses to doctors...

Bee Staff The Citrus Heights Police department will cast a stronger net for DUI drivers, thanks to a $214,276 federal-state grant. "This grant will enable us to increase our DUI enforcement efforts and improve roadway safety in our community," said...

Mark Hensley, director of public health for Laurel County, said Monday “not a lot” of confirmed reports of either H1N1 or “seasonal” flu have come across his desk. Similar reports have come from Susan Liford, interim director for the Knox...

The 2-3 inches of rain that fell on Louisville since Thursday is making for a wet Friday morning commute, with flooding closing some roads in Southern Indiana, where 3-4 inches of rain had fallen. Although the heaviest of the storms...

As flu season approached this year, nurse Shelley Del Bosco said she was "inundated" with 25 calls a day from patients wondering when their seasonal vaccine would be available. But for the first time, she had to tell families to...

The Supreme Court of Kentucky has ruled that a law limiting where registered sex offenders can live cannot apply to those who committed offenses before July 12, 2006, the day the law was implemented. The law prohibits sex offenders from...

The man had other significant health conditions that contributed to his death, health officials said. Meanwhile, vaccine is being made available to health care workers, considered at high risk for getting the disease, through the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department.

Kentucky health officials on Tuesday said a sixth Kentuckian has died of H1N1 flu, a 39-year-old Scott County man who suffered at home for several days without seeing a doctor. �According to family members, he had not sought medical treatment...