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City officials decided to delay the parade for one week because of predicted thunderstorms and high winds.

Slavery and indentured servitude is illegal in Kentucky except as a punishment for a crime. The exception has deep ties to slavery, and some lawmakers hope to amend the Constitution to eliminate it.

Both reports found that less than 1% of payments made from the Team Western Kentucky Tornado Relief Fund had been in error.

More than 100 entries, including floats, bands and vehicles, have signed up for the parade.

Kentucky nonprofit arts organizations that provide year-round arts programs are eligible to apply for funding through Feb. 15.

Breathitt, a Hopkinsville native, became Kentucky's 51st governor in 1963. He was 39 years old when he took office.

A 2022 survey indicated challenges include “access to farmland and capital, student loan debt, access to health care, affordable housing and the increasing impacts of climate change.”

The editors will accept works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual arts until Jan. 31.

The four-show series will bring audience members on the stage for a setting much like a jazz club in a large city.

The governor has a duty to challenge laws he deems unconstitutional and the “comprehensive authority” to decide how funds appropriated to his office are spent, the appeals court ruled.

Kentucky’s veterinary shortage will likely be a topic discussed during the upcoming legislative session starting in January.

The parade will tell the story of Beshear's first term governing through a time of unprecedented adversity, his office announced.