Regional & State

Most bills the Kentucky General passed into law this year will go into effect 90 days after the end of the session, but 27 of them have “emergency clauses” attached.

Kentucky previously started SAFE funds after floods in Eastern Kentucky and tornadoes in Western Kentucky.

Gov. Andy Beshear joined Democratic lawmakers in calling for more transparency in the legislative process.

The Kentucky General Assembly's Republican supermajority sped more than 100 bills to passage ahead of the governor’s veto period. Some of the most contentious measures were heavily amended before the public could give their input, or even read them.

The workshop kicks off the WKMS observance of National Poetry Month and comes with an invitation to also read an original poem on the station.

The U.S. government had a brief window to act and contain the virus in the spring of 2024, when bird flu surfaced in a small number of dairy cows.

The Republican-controlled General Assembly can override Democrat Beshear’s veto when lawmakers return to Frankfort Thursday and Friday following the veto period. 

Lawmakers can override the vetoes when they return to Frankfort next week.

Approximately 300 Fort Campbell soldiers are among those who have been deployed to the southern border so far this year.

The House on Friday also killed an unrelated bill sought by the state’s largest treatment program and sponsored by freshman Sen. Craig Richardson, R-Hopkinsville.

Beshear has already signed some legislation into law.

The national Real ID enforcement deadline which is less than two months away.