The small, solitary, scrawny, pine tree grew out of an abandoned, rotting wooden train trestle tie in Whitesburg. But what it produced helped many people devastated by the floods that killed 45 people as the raging waters swept through portions of Eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and southern West Virginia between July 25 and Aug. 1, […]
Throughout his life, Kentucky writer Wendell Berry described death not as an end, but as a stage in a cycle of renewal. Those who die return in body to the earth and endure in the memory of those who loved them. In “Three Elegaic Poems,” dedicated to his dying grandfather, Berry says the old man […]
When Brigid Robine tried to find housing for an 18-year-old wheelchair user who had been forced from their home, she encountered what a statewide housing advocate describes as a fragmented system of …
The woman wounded in an Aug. 17 shooting at a Sunset Drive residence has died, according to a public social media post by her daughter. …
LOUISVILLE — Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin will spend 60 days in jail after he was arrested Thursday on an outstanding warrant for contempt of court. Bevin appeared in Jefferson County Family Court Friday afternoon. He had been arrested on Thursday while working as an extra on a Christmas movie filmed at a Bourbon County […]
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 such targets have been missed. That’s according to a Friday letter by State Budget Director John Hicks […]
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman filed a lawsuit Thursday against Mayday Health, alleging the national nonprofit broke state law by advertising abortion services in the state, in one case flying a banner over the Kentucky State Fair. The lawsuit, filed in Logan County Circuit Court, accuses Mayday of “engaging in unfair, false, misleading or deceptive […]
Former Gov. Matt Bevin was arrested in Bourbon County Thursday an outstanding warrant for contempt of court, police said. After his arrest by the Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office, he was booked into the Louisville Metro Detention Center on Thursday, where he was charged with resistance to a court order. Jessica Mohr, the owner of the […]
Murray State University regents were told during their annual retreat last week that emails and text messages kept exclusively on their personal accounts or devices are not subject to Kentucky’s …
FRANKFORT — Kentucky lawmakers may consider legislation to require law enforcement officers to get a warrant before searching Flock cameras in the future. Lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee heard from supporters on Thursday about how Flock cameras can help police officers quickly find suspects, but also heard from opponents about how bad actors can misuse the […]
Kentucky voters have spoken in one of the most anticipated elections of 2026, choosing a design from Bush Elementary school as the next “I Voted” sticker design. More than 3,500 voters, who cast ballots at the Kentucky State Fair, chose a design from student Ryker Asher featuring the shape of the commonwealth in blue, a […]
This story was originally reported by Jennifer Gerson of The 19th. Meet Jennifer and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Gloria Steinem, one of the leaders of second-wave feminism and a feminist thought leader for generations, has died at the age of 92. In a career that saw attitudes on women change (and change […]
One of my most vivid memories of moving to Silicon Valley in 2007 is walking my dogs through town one Saturday morning and stopping to watch a young couple, early 30s maybe, take delivery of a brand new Lamborghini. It felt like I’d arrived in Oz, a fantastical land where a young person could make […]
Both state lawmakers and representatives of Kentucky’s road paving industry have strong concerns about the lack of road work that state transportation officials are awarding this summer compared to previous years. Last month, the Kentucky Lantern reported the number of road work projects, particularly repaving, had dramatically fallen this summer compared to the previous two […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved public assistance for 20 Kentucky counties that dealt with flooding in June, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Wednesday. Six Kentuckians died in the flooding, which saw eight inches of rain. The affected counties are getting $9 million in help from the federal government, according to U.S. Rep. Andy […]
The Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts said the system used for files for the Kentucky Supreme Court and Court of Appeals “experienced a cybersecurity incident.” AOC said it was notified by the company Thomson Reuters Court Management Solutions about the incident within the company’s C-Track system files. The company said an unauthorized third party […]
Calloway County Office of Emergency Management to Conduct Storm Siren Testing on Friday, September 4th, 2026
In some Kentucky communities where hyperscale data centers are being proposed, leaders in local governments and school districts are eyeing a potential tax windfall that they hope could lead to transformative investments back in their communities. In the small Mercer County city of Burgin, a school board member for the city’s school district argued a […]
Some Kentuckians become so rooted in this place that it is difficult to think of one without the other. Wendell Berry was such a Kentuckian. He died Monday at age 92 at his beloved Lane’s Landing Farm in Port Royal, Ky. Poet, novelist, essayist, teacher, farmer, conservationist, and dissenter, he spent a lifetime asking: What […]
A Kentucky student has a plan for state lawmakers to reduce waste in schools and increase recycling. Anikaa Sharma, a Pikeville High School student, told legislators on the Education Committee Tuesday about a bill proposal to update state laws to reflect a modern list of recyclables and divert food waste to local composting facilities. She […]