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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]