More Toyota jobs.

In Kentucky, auto workers rally to support their striking colleagues, and a group in northern Kentucky was not happy to see a national library leader.

Toby Gibbs has details in this.

Look at what's happening around the Commonwealth.

Toyota by Shoko, broke ground on its $225 million manufacturing facility in Hopkinsville last week.

The Hop Town Chronicle reports that construction of the 365,400 square foot facility began a few months ago and is expected to be completed in 2025.

Toyota Basho COO makes interior filtration and powertrain components.

Company officials said the plant will feature advanced robotics and automation to streamline work and reduce waste.

A state package of tax incentives requires the company to pay its 157 employees an average of $40 an hour, with benefits.

Union laborers from General Motors Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant met at the local United Auto Workers Union Hall last week to show support for the nationwide strike.

That's according to the Bowling Green Daily News.

Since September 15, 43 assembly plants and distribution centers have gone on strike against the Big three automakers.

None of those facilities have been in Kentucky.

The United Auto Workers demands include a 36% increase in wages over four years.

A 32 hour workweek, regular cost of living adjustments and the restoration of defined benefit pensions.

Blank inquire reports.

The Northern Kentucky Moms for Liberty protested the arrival of American Library Association President Emily Dora Bensky in Florence on Friday.

The chapter chair told Lincoln Care why the group is in opposition to what they deemed American Library Association policies and that Verbinski is quote, pushing pornography books in our schools and in our libraries, unquote.

She said that material is being strategically placed in parts of libraries where children and young adults can see it.

Stravinsky told Link and Kay why the American Library Association is a nonpartisan organization committed to library services for everyone, and she favors professional librarians making decisions for their communities.

Last week at Preston's Burke City Hall, Floyd County officials unveiled an opioid overdose rescue kit that contains Narcan nasal spray.

The Floyd County Chronicle reports it's the first of many that will be placed across the county, health department, officials said.

Another kit will be located at the fire station in Lancer.

Floyd County ranks third in the number of overdose deaths in Kentucky.

The Somerset Pulaski Special Response Team will have a ribbon cutting for its new building this weekend.

The last one caught fire in 2021.

The Commonwealth Journal reports that the dedication is Saturday, October 14th, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is open to the public.

The response team also lost five of its vehicles after a faulty charger in a vehicle that was parked inside the building's bay started the fire.

With headlines around Kentucky, I'm Toby Gibbs.