Health insurance costs are becoming unsustainable, and no one, and I mean no one, has a better idea for dealing with this crisis than Medicare for All.

Alpha-gal syndrome is yet another illness connected to ticks that's continuing to emerge in Kentucky.

If there are one or two of you out there who still have doubts that Gov. Andy Beshear will run for president in 2028, doubt no more.

Hancock’s horses won the Kentucky Derby twice, after being expelled from horse racing royalty.

What happens when politicians dislike what a professor teaches, an employee says, or a university prints?

More than 60,000 farms grew tobacco in the 1990s to now less than 1,000 as of 2022, according to federal agriculture census data.

Ralph Alvarado’s campaign pushed out a press release this week on a curious piece in the Daily Caller, the right-wing website about Alvarado’s opponent in the 6th District Congressional race, Zach Dem...

A city council member for a small Mercer County community walked out of a meeting Tuesday evening, stopping a vote that could have restarted efforts to annex land for a proposed hyperscale data center...

Kentucky is about to get an influx of funds from a major settlement with Meta, and lawmakers and advocates want to see the money invested in children’s wellbeing.

Kentucky has missed key fiscal targets within the state budget to allow for another future cut to the state’s income tax rate in 2028, the second year in a row and the third time in four years that su...

Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin will spend 60 days in jail after he was arrested Thursday on an outstanding warrant for contempt of court.

The news broke late Monday that Berry died at 92. He was a farmer, author of dozens of books, former English professor and defender of land.

After two years of limbo, Kentucky has started implementing a 2024 law to help kinship care families.

President Donald Trump may no longer be the silver bullet in Kentucky elections that Republicans once had as voters face pains from an ongoing war in Iran and rising gas and grocery prices.

Earlier this month, House Speaker David Osborne made an interesting comment to the Lexington Herald-Leader about whether Kentucky’s generous tax incentives to data centers were a good idea.

Apparently there is no blue ribbon at the Kentucky State Fair just for being cute. Well, at the risk of igniting controversy: There should be.

A Kentucky mom is closely watching a court case against Meta that could determine if the social media company knowingly designed addictive products that are harmful to children.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear stood firm behind the power of his executive order he issued seeking to limit the impacts of data centers eyeing Kentucky. Experts aren't so sure.

A data center protester says she was threatened by a data center developer trying to bring a major project to Mercer County.

On Tuesday, the Mercer County Fiscal Court passed a one-year moratorium on data center construction, the latest turn over months of tumultuous debate in the rural county over whether the community sho...

“Are the KY wildcats in trouble?” That wasn’t a sports headline in the Kentucky Lantern, which doesn’t cover my University of Kentucky Wildcats, or any kind of sports. But the headline caught my atten...

Federal immigration agents may soon be outfitted with a device – electrical shock gloves – manufactured by a Kentucky company.

Republican Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is appointing the former CEO of electric utility East Kentucky Power Cooperative and a CEO of a barge company, both with coal industry ties, to a c...

Chet Hayes thinks Kentucky has a decent bobcat population but it's hard to know exactly how many there are.

Missouri voters resoundingly rejected major Republican priorities on Tuesday as proposals to eliminate the income tax and change the way majorities are counted lost by large margins across the state.

Local economic development directors see an opportunity for new life at languishing industrial sites. But one environmental attorney has a warning.

Renee Shaw reflects on 29 years as a journalist at Kentucky Educational Television.

The Fancy Farm Picnic is where Kentucky politicians go if they want to get a boost ahead of an upcoming election — whether on stage or not.

The auction of items from one of the most widely known Kentuckians — Colonel Harland Sanders — generated nearly $300,000 in sales.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear will go on a tour starting in September to promote his upcoming book, “Go and Do Likewise.”

A brother of a woman detained by federal immigration agents in Louisville said she has been denied proper medical care for sickle cell anemia while being held in a Kentucky jail.

In 2020 as Kentucky faced a spike of deadly overdoses, Gov. Andy Beshear set out to help more people access drug treatment by loosening Medicaid spending controls. But as the costs piled up, so did th...

Amid his prolonged absence from the U.S. Senate after he was hospitalized last month, Kentucky Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell said he will not attend the Fancy Farm Picnic this weekend.  McConne...

A lot of people are asking Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear to “do something” about U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s absence from the Senate.

An international company wants to build a hyperscale data center in Eastern Kentucky.

Kentucky U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell said in a Sunday statement he fell before he was hospitalized last month and he has moved from being a hospital patient to “a rehabilitation center where I’ll keep r...

As usual, political shenanigans around education are a bipartisan game, fun for everyone except those most affected, our kids.

A new analysis of state road paving contracts shows that some asphalt companies receive a large share of "inflated" single-bid contracts.

Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is asking Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell to provide a public update on his health.