Government

Beshear says "zero politics" has played a role in the federal response.

Mayor James R. Knight Jr. said a community budget forum planned on March 10 will allow residents to "have a voice in the budget process."

Beshear said Kentucky “couldn’t have made it” through multiple disasters during his five years as governor without federal assistance.

The bill easily passed, 11-4, the House Health Services Committee on Thursday mostly along party lines after six Kentucky health care professionals testified against it. 

AG Daniel Cameron has announced he’s running. Rep. Andy Barr says he’s "considering" it.

The bill's sponsor said he “... could not come up with a good definition for tenure that I felt comfortable putting in statute.”

In last year’s budget, the Republican-controlled General Assembly set various caps on spending by state agencies when responding to a disaster, before asking the legislature for a new appropriation.

The minority of Democrats in the GOP-controlled chamber who opposed Senate Bill 89 echoed strong concerns from environmental groups that the legislation could open the door to more pollution of groundwater, wetlands and small headwater streams across the state. 

McConnell cited what he called Kennedy’s “record of trafficking in dangerous conspiracy theories and eroding trust in public health institutions.”

Education Commissioner Robbie Fletcher said the education department would continue to discuss possible future funding with lawmakers.

The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence on a nearly party-line vote, with Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky being the only Republican to vote against her.

U.S. Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul nearly universally stuck with their parties in voting in favor of confirming President Donald Trump’s picks for top offices in his administration.