This year, Kentucky ranks 42nd in the nation for average public school teacher pay at $58,325 despite a 3.6% increase from the previous year. The national average teacher salary is $72,030, according to the 2025 data.
Former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is fighting a federal jury’s decision that she should pay $100,000 to a couple she denied a marriage license in 2015. But her lawyers also want the case to result in same-sex marriage rights being revoked.
The Executive Branch Ethics Commission will not appeal last month’s unanimous decision by the Kentucky Court of Appeals to uphold a lower court order that cleared Alison Lundergan Grimes of any wrongdoing.
No fewer than 48 American racetracks have closed since 2000, but Kentucky operators continue to invest hundreds of millions in their facilities and are reaping an outsized return — and not only on the first Saturday in May.
Kentuckians and people in other states have until May 7 before a REAL ID is needed to enter federal facilities, such as military bases or to get through airport security checkpoints to board domestic flights.
