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Students walk through Category 4 Hurricane Helene to get to class on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Abbey Cutrer | Staff

Road closures and bus delays: UK remains open amid Hurricane Helene conditions

Kelsey House, Reporter September 27, 2024

The University of Kentucky remains open and operating on Friday, Sept. 27, as inclement weather affects Lexington, Kentucky. In an email sent by UK Police to students and faculty on Sept. 26,...

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Trump administration’s decision to transfer FEMA money to ICE was reckless, can still be mended

Jansen Hammock September 14, 2018

The recent decision by the Trump administration to divert funding from FEMA to ICE for detention programs is not only illogical; it is outright dangerous.With hurricane Florence placing the United State’s...

Hurricane Irma brought down a lot of trees and limbs in Neptune City Beach, a small beach community near Jacksonville, Fl. Photo provided by Steve Ramsey, Neptune City Beach Director of Finance and grandfather of Kernel news editor Bailey Vandiver.

Kentuckians’ loved ones affected by Irma

Kernel Staff September 15, 2017

Over the last several weeks, journalists have risked their dryness, their equipment and even their lives to report Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.With our office in landlocked Kentucky, we at the Kernel were...

Local horse farm owner challenges UK to donate, save animal victims of hurricane

Rick Childress August 31, 2017

A local horse farm owner is challenging UK students to donate to an Ohio feed mill that is sending animal supplies to hurricane-stricken Houston.Smokey Lynne Bare, a co-owner of the Sue Say Farm in Lexington,...

Sophomore Maddie Bland donated blood at the Singletary Center for the Arts at University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky. on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. Photo by Josh Mott | Staff.

UK hosts blood drive, donates to disaster relief

Kayla Coco August 29, 2017

Bringing relief to the victims of Hurricane Harvey’s rainy terror does not have to involve heroic feats worthy of an action film.Starting on Monday, UK’s campus is hosting a blood drive through the...

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