Gov. Andy Beshear criticized the $3.2 million payout to retiring University of Kentucky Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart on Thursday, stating his disapproval despite the fact the funds were privately raised. “Yes, $3 million that could otherwise go to helping students, to better paying faculty, to doing research that could cure this disease that’s afflicting one […]

FRANKFORT – Two big Andy Beshear supporters from outside Kentucky provided the lion’s share of the money donated to Beshear’s super PAC between April 1 and June 30. Beshear’s super PAC is called In This Together PAC Inc., and a report it filed Wednesday with the Internal Revenue Service shows: Ashish Patel, an investor from […]

Democratic socialism is on the rise in some blue states, but socialists are still rare in ruby red Republican Kentucky. That wasn’t always so. Six-score years ago, Louisville hosted the Christian Socialist Fellowship movement’s first national convention. The movement even spread to the Jackson Purchase, arguably Kentucky’s Trumpiest territory today. The CSF aimed “to perfect […]

The judge will need to rule on Kentucky’s motion to dismiss the case.

Commentary author Al Cross writes, Sen. Mitch McConnell's taciturn approach caused turmoil for him and the country when he went four weeks without explaining why he was hospitalized. And it gave Gov. Andy Beshear an opening to burnish his potential-president profile.

The 2026 state fair is August 20-30.

The attorney for former London Mayor Randall Weddle says that in the spring of 2023 the chief fundraiser for Gov. Andy Beshear's reelection campaign "destroyed vital evidence" in a pending criminal case against Weddle for making excess campaign contributions to Beshear.

The full-day programs are set to begin in the 2026-2027 school year.

A University of Kentucky law professor has filed a federal lawsuit to prevent a federal judge from becoming the next dean of the UK College of Law. 

Shopping for a farm in Scott County, Dr. William “Chip” Richardson, a Georgetown ophthalmologist, found one with a feature that grabbed his attention. “There was this really old building,” said Richardson, who discovered that the stone structure was all that remained of a Native American school established for members of the Choctaw Nation in Kentucky […]

Rocky Adkins, a former Kentucky Democratic House floor leader, has left his post with Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration. 

A few Kentucky politicians — mostly Republicans — have confirmed they will be speaking at this year’s Fancy Farm Picnic next month. 

"You don't get to just say that we don't have the right to exist here."

For Ohio County Judge-Executive David Johnston, passing a resolution last year urging an increase in black lung disability benefits was a matter of principle.  The last major coal mine in Ohio County, a part of the Western Kentucky Coal Field region, closed years ago. But he said the former miners who have coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, […]

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 regaining my strength.”  “My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a […]

Embattled London Mayor Randall Weddle is resigning from office after an appeals court reaffirmed the city council’s 2025 decision to remove him from his post.