Regional & State

The EPA has until Jan. 17 to make a decision on paraquat’s future availability.

Republicans plan to file a bill nixing a state requirement that campuses submit diversity plans.

Running a dairy farm isn’t easy, especially when the costs of production rise faster than income.

The Daily Yonder asked rural scholars and organizers to envision how we might get to a democracy that better engages and represents the needs of rural people and places. Here’s what they said.

Competing political issue committees have raised millions of dollars that will be spent on ads supporting and opposing a ballot referendum asking whether Kentucky should amend its constitution to allow public funds to go to private and charter schools.

In Kentucky, recent research finds Black and Hispanic workers record lower median hourly wages than white workers.

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is telling prosecutors that hundreds of new “risk free” games resembling casino slots are illegal under state law.

A 2020 study showed that cropland, including corn, can increase moisture levels in the air by up to 40%.

You hear a lot of stories about Kentucky’s “Bloody Breathitt.”