Regional & State

The emergency cash relief includes $6.3 million for Murray State University and $1.3 million for Hopkinsville Community College.

The governor reported six new COVID-19 deaths in Kentucky, two of which state officials traced to a specific mass gathering in Hopkins County.

When health experts uniformly advise that a crisis is coming, it's wise to heed their counsel and to take certain precautions to stem catastrophe.

The governor said that churches moving forward with services “can probably expect to see us.”

Prine was a superb storyteller: evocative, somber, silly, thoughtful and surprising. He was a songwriter for the ages, and he had a true understanding of rural America.

The new charge stems from the same event that led to Jones’ 2016 conviction.

In a video shown during Beshear's daily briefing Monday, the pastor of a Louisville church urged Kentuckians to follow the governor' policies.

The lawsuit alleges the dispatch director was working out of a separate office in the courthouse but did not tell his employees it was because he was concerned the virus would spread in the dispatch center.

WKMS’ request identified a handful of specific officials whose emails it sought, a narrow time frame for the search and an even narrower search topic.

From the start of the governor's efforts to limit the spread of the virus three weeks ago, churches have been a challenge.

Kentucky has 917 confirmed coronavirus cases, and 76 people are hospitalized with the respiratory disease.

A Lutheran church near Louisville says it will hold services but limit attendance and restrict seating to every other pew.