Long-time Louisville reporter and anchor Mark Vanderhoff died Friday after a nearly two-year battle against a form of brain cancer, glioblastoma. He was 50.  Vanderhoff joined WLKY, where he was part of the newsroom for about a decade, in 2014. Before that, he worked at numerous outlets, including the Louisville Courier Journal. He had a […]

A judge has rejected an emergency effort to block the reunification of a one-year-old girl in foster care with her birth mother who is scheduled to be deported to Guatemala and currently is in custody of U.S. Immigration and Enforcement. In an order released Friday, Judge Sara Walter Combs, with the Kentucky Court of Appeals, […]

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency is again seeking public comments on a proposal to redefine what waters receive federal environmental protections, a move that could also have a broad impact on state water protections in Kentucky.  The Trump administration is allowing public comments until Oct. 9 on a “supplemental” rule to redefine federally protected Waters […]

Saying a judge has “slammed the door shut and thrown away the key,” a lawyer for former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is asking the state Court of Appeals to order his immediate release from jail for contempt of court. Bevin, 59, was arrested Sept. 3 and lodged in the Jefferson County jail to serve a […]

Woodford County has approved an ordinance this week to permanently ban data center construction, the first Kentucky county to do so and among a handful of local governments across the country to take such a strict stance against the power-intensive operations.  The ordinance passed by the Woodford County Fiscal Court on Tuesday bans the construction […]

LOUISVILLE — Ahead of elections that could determine control of Congress and states for the rest of President Donald Trump’s second term, Democratic governors say they are happy to talk to voters about the president’s policies.  At the Democratic Governors Association’s fall policy conference in Louisville, a few governors said Thursday their party’s candidates will win […]

The Ford Motor Co. will build a new $1 billion paint shop at the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, breaking ground by the end of the year, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Thursday. “From our past to our present and our future, Ford is a central part of Kentucky’s story, which continues to show the world […]

Lexington’s government and its economic development partners work on economic development every day to ensure there are good-paying jobs for our residents, and to keep our quality of life high for everyone. For me, it’s a top priority – it’s my job to ensure our economy continues to thrive. Our investments in economic development have […]

The number of federal immigration detainees in Kentucky jails is growing dramatically, but the public knows less and less about them, including whether or not they have criminal records, according to new reports on federal efforts to deport more people. 

Bruce Lunsford, who founded Fortune 500 healthcare company Vencor, served as Gov. John Y. Brown Jr.’s commerce secretary and ran unsuccessfully twice for governor of Kentucky and once for U.S. Senate, died Sept. 5 in Louisville. He was 78. “Bruce was a visionary,” said former House speaker and attorney general Greg Stumbo, who ran for […]

BURGIN, Ky. — 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, a project that’s been under local scrutiny for months.  During a special meeting at the city’s fire department, […]

Have you ever picked up your phone to text, only to find yourself mindlessly scrolling social media? You’re not alone.  Social media companies design products to trigger addictive behavior—putting kids’ sleep, mental health, and self-image at serious risk. But there’s good news: Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is doing something about it. Last week, General […]

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.  The state’s slice of the $17.1 billion settlement is $358 million, with payments expected to start flowing in early fall.  The settlement came in late August after […]

Former Franklin Circuit Judge Roger L. Crittenden, who issued the landmark legal decision that requires the General Assembly to pass a budget, died Monday at his home in Frankfort. He was 81. Crittenden also was former chair of the state Executive Branch Ethics Commission and served as a special master to craft a distribution plan […]

A statewide nonprofit organization has been established to oversee educational scholarships for Kentucky public and private school students under a future federal tax credit program.  The Kentucky Education Fund “a statewide, nonpartisan option for administering qualifying contributions and scholarships under the new program,” a press release from the organization said. Earlier this year, the Kentucky […]

I can’t really remember the exact moment I began identifying as a feminist. I know it was early on – before I even knew what the word meant, before my first date, before someone told me I had to wear a bra, before the first time a man made me feel inferior. Somewhere between Claire […]

The Kentucky Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked child welfare officials from removing a one-year-old girl from foster parents and returning her to the mother who was accused of attempting to harm the girl as a newborn. The order, issued late Friday by Judge Sara Walter Combs, followed a flurry of activity last week in […]

A special education advocate has filed a federal complaint against Warren County Public Schools on behalf of students and parents alleging the district overly refers students with disabilities to a local mental health facility.  Student advocate Mary Beth Patton filed the complaint with the Office for Civil Rights in early August and wrote that students […]