Louisville

Butchertown’s seven-story Main & Clay apartments ready for construction

The construction fence is up, asbestos is out, and crews are set to begin work on a 262-unit, $50 million apartment building in Butchertown. According to...

This new map compares breathing bad air to smoking cigarettes

Most people who don’t smoke have a visceral reaction to the smell. I was in Maysville last fall and went into a restaurant where...

Look Alive Louisville: No, pedestrians should not have to glow in...

  If you're out walking after sundown, you'd better be glowing in the dark or else it's your own fault if you get hit and...

Effort to rehabilitate the historic Colonial Gardens gets a boost with...

Fenced off from Iroquois Park by a wall of chain link, the historic Colonial Gardens complex on the corner of New Cut Road and Kenwood...

One block from pedestrian safety target intersection, LMPD officer strikes pedestrian...

One of five dangerous target intersections being watched by the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) as part of the city's Look Alive Louisville pedestrian...

Streets aren’t what they used to be, or how public space...

  Today, the curb is a dividing line between the realm of the pedestrian and that of the motorist. Except for a few certain times...

There are two new bright red bike racks at City Hall...

There are a pair of new, bright red bike racks in front of City Hall near the corner of Sixth Street and Jefferson Street in...

Look Alive Louisville, Part 2: The numbers behind the carnage on...

(Editor's Note: This is the second in a multiple-part series about street safety in Louisville as the city continues to roll out its three-year...

Louisville hopes a regimen of education and enforcement can curb a...

Navigating streets in 21st century America can be downright scary for everyone involved—pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists. And it’s too often deadly. We've all felt it before,...