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Posted: Apr 15, 2025 / 12:24 PM EST / Updated: Apr 15, 2025 / 06:43 PM EST FRANKFORT, Ind. (WISH) — The City of Frankfort has approved the mayor’s request to close the TPA Park Zoo.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Homes and businesses are underwater, but Kentucky's capital city avoided the worst-case scenario when the Kentucky River crested just below its highest flood level in history.
The river crested overnight at 48.39 feet, the second-highest level in history behind the record of 48.5 feet set in 1978, according to a Facebook post from Frankfort Mayor Layne Wilkerson.
The river is expected to crest at nearly 49.5 feet, which is the highest recorded level in the city's history. Frankfort's flood wall can only hold up to 51 feet of water. Officials said they won ...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - The city of Frankfort set a curfew that runs from 8 p.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday. City officials say it is a necessary step to limit traffic downtown as crews are trying to ...
Frankfort resident Daniel Cox called it a “once in a generation storm” as he overlooked the rising river on War Mother’s Memorial Bridge in downtown Frankfort Sunday afternoon. “It is ...
The Kentucky River is projected to crest at 49.5 feet, one foot higher than the all-time record set in 1978, resulting in flooding throughout Frankfort.
The downtown Frankfort section of the river is projected to crest at 47 feet Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service, just 1.5 feet shy of its all-time record set in 1978.
Streamside Manor, a 24-unit senior housing project, caught fire Monday morning and displaced several residents, according to the American Red Cross and Frankfort Volunteer Fire Department. At ...