A Kentucky oil well operator has been fined $20,000 after admitting he illegally discharged polluted water into a creek in northeast Kentucky. The judge also sentenced Joshua Ferguson, of Martha, to serve 12 months on home detention. The Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection received a tip last fall about brine water from an oil-well site […]

Investor groups are challenging a Kentucky law they argue would make it harder for shareholders to push companies to consider climate change, diversity and other issues in their policies. The plaintiffs claim the law is unconstitutional, in part because it impairs their right to speak freely under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The […]

The increasing rate of homelessness across Kentucky has slowed down compared to past years, but there are “still too many” people experiencing homelessness.  That’s according to new statewide survey data provided to the Kentucky Lantern this month by the Kentucky Housing Corporation, a quasi-governmental agency that manages federal and state housing funding.  The data is […]