Dr. 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 Dembo. In it, author Derek VanBuskirk cited Dembo’s 2024 interview on a podcast called The Good Guy Guide, in which Dembo talked about […]

Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is directing $2.5 million in state funding meant for housing to a national nonprofit with plans to forgive outstanding medical debt for tens of thousands of low-income Kentuckians.  In a Tuesday afternoon press conference announcing the move, Beshear said the poor credit scores that some Kentuckians have who carry medical […]

Kentucky U.S. Rep. James Comer will not seek another term as the chairman of the House Oversight Committee.  Comer, a Republican who represents the state’s 1st Congressional District, first became chairman of the committee in 2023. The committee gave him a second term starting in 2025.  Austin Hacker, a spokesperson for Comer, said that chairs […]

Since being hospitalized more than 90 days ago, Kentucky U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell says he plans to return to the Senate Monday evening.  McConnell, 84, was hospitalized in June and said on July 12 he would enter a rehabilitation center after a fall at home. In a statement late Monday, the Republican said after the […]

Both the state Supreme Court and a state Appeals Court judge have now rejected emergency efforts to block the reunification of a one-year-old girl in foster care with her mother who is scheduled to be deported to Guatemala and currently is in custody of U.S. Immigration and Enforcement. In a series of rulings late last […]

Thomas Graham Jr. spent much of his life trying to make an unthinkable event less likely. As an American diplomat and lawyer, he helped negotiate the agreements by which nations sought to limit nuclear weapons and prevent their spread. As a son of Louisville, he carried into that work a conviction that a life should […]

FRANKFORT – Gov. Andy Beshear’s super PAC is running an attack ad aimed at Ralph Alvarado, the Republican running for Kentucky’s 6th District Congressional seat. The Democratic governor’s super PAC is called In This Together and on Friday it filed a report with the Federal Election Commission stating that it paid $250,000 to a Washington-based […]

The news Thursday that 13 skilled journalists in Lexington were laid off was heart-breaking but also frightening. The suggestion that AI can replace reporters who are trained to observe, interpret, and ask the tough questions is unrealistic. AI is a tool and a resource, but it cannot replace a human reporter. The real danger here […]

While Kentucky cattle farmers are facing challenges like a loss of farmland and a move from the Trump administration to import more foreign beef, agriculture leaders are trying to boost the policies that will help them. Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Jonathan Shell told the Kentucky Lantern last week that he is hearing “a frustration from the […]

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, […]