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The program started as a demonstration focused on treatment for substance-use disorder during incarceration.

Opponents have said it will hurt small businesses and lead to a monopoly for big retailers.

The Kentucky delegation will meet with “companies and trade organizations to determine future investment and job-creation opportunities in the state,” officials said in a press release from the governor’s office.

Gov. Andy Beshear said President Joe Biden was “in control of the room” during a meeting with a group of Democratic governors Wednesday night. Beshear’s name has come up in discussions as pressure for Biden to step off the ticket mounts.

Secretary of State Michael Adams says changing it now would "sow chaos" in a presidential election year.

Lobbying efforts around HB 594 dominated spending in the 2023 session of the Kentucky legislature.

House Bill 829 became law during this year’s legislative session and moved up the medical cannabis timeline from January 2025 to July 1, 2024. 

Anyone using the temporary office in the Forbes Place building at 10th and Virginia streets must first make an appointment.

In a decision Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court gave wide discretion to states and localities to create policy around homelessness. It clears the way for a Kentucky ban on outdoor homelessness to go into effect in July.

According to data released earlier this year, Kentucky has an overall housing gap of over 200,000 units.

The committe warned in a letter that the governor’s endorsement blurs judicial and partisan lines in nonpartisan race.

Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021, commemorating the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free