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Senate Bill 154 would remove Social Security and public benefit cards from the additional documents that voters may use — along with signing an affidavit attesting to their identity — if they cannot provide a primary form of identification, such as a Kentucky-issued driver’s license.
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Beshear, 48, is widely expected to make a presidential run in 2028, and did not rule out a bid when members of the audience at a Washington event asked how he would govern if he won the presidency.
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A Senate committee has advanced bills that would require year-long expulsions for students who assault school employees and allow districts to offer optional cash-outs for unused teacher sick leave.
Kentucky LRC, Public Information
The Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legislature’s 2022 charter school law as unconstitutional, ruling it violates the state’s mandate for a uniform, efficient system of common schools.
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A bill awaiting Gov. Andy Beshear’s signature would let Kentucky utilities spread out higher fuel costs after January's winter storm drove up natural gas prices.
Sen. Phillip Wheeler
Four years after a devastating tornado damaged her work, a new exhibition at Murray State University’s Wrather Museum honors Helen LaFrance as a vivid chronicler of Black life and memory in West Kentucky.
Graves County Courthouse painting
Kentucky’s winter storms strained livestock producers with cold stress and calving risks, while insulating dormant wheat — though a late freeze could still threaten crops.
farmer with calves
The legislation would create a buffer zone around a "first responder" following a warning.
masked ice agent
Christian County Public Schools is among the districts affected by the revocation of a $47 million federal grant supporting Kentucky community schools.
In a letter to congressional leaders, industry representatives charged that Trump administration policies "have caused tremendous harm to U.S. agriculture."
A Franklin County judge ruled he won’t dismiss a lawsuit brought by a group of Kentucky students alleging the state has failed to provide an adequate and equitable education.
Kentucky’s attorney general reversed course Wednesday, saying landowners can hunt and fish on their own farmland without a license — even if they don’t live there.
Chuck Meade at desk