Regional & State

The program started as a demonstration focused on treatment for substance-use disorder during incarceration.

Opponents have said it will hurt small businesses and lead to a monopoly for big retailers.

The Kentucky delegation will meet with “companies and trade organizations to determine future investment and job-creation opportunities in the state,” officials said in a press release from the governor’s office.

Gov. Andy Beshear said President Joe Biden was “in control of the room” during a meeting with a group of Democratic governors Wednesday night. Beshear’s name has come up in discussions as pressure for Biden to step off the ticket mounts.

Gov. Andy Beshear gets mentioned in any Top 10 list of possible replacements, and sometimes in a Top 5, but is not yet a major player like the governors of Michigan and Pennsylvania, two states Democrats need and could carry, unlike Kentucky, and other governors of larger states, writes columnist Al Cross.

Biden will meet with Democratic governors Wednesday, multiple news outlets have reported.

Secretary of State Michael Adams says changing it now would "sow chaos" in a presidential election year.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he will support the president "as long as he continues to be in the race."

Lobbying efforts around HB 594 dominated spending in the 2023 session of the Kentucky legislature.

House Bill 829 became law during this year’s legislative session and moved up the medical cannabis timeline from January 2025 to July 1, 2024. 

Doris Y. Wilkinson was director of the Project on African American Heritage in the UK sociology department, the winner of many honors and author of numerous articles and eight books.

In a decision Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court gave wide discretion to states and localities to create policy around homelessness. It clears the way for a Kentucky ban on outdoor homelessness to go into effect in July.