Regional & State

The bill to move Kentucky’s off-year elections to the often better-attended presidential years passed the state Senate last Wednesday.

Legislation mandates annual reports on “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity,” and bars any spending on diversity programs

More than 2% of Kentuckians use the drugs which mimic a hormone that triggers the release of insulin.

The record is noteworthy because Kentucky lawmakers convened for only a short legislative session of 30 days in 2023.

Thel bill to compensate people who were incarcerated for crimes they did not commit unanimously passed out of the House Judiciary committee.

Rep. Jason Petrie, R-Elkton, who chairs House Appropriations and Revenue, said the plan invests taxpayer resources with the goal of getting a return on each investment that will further benefit Kentuckians.

The commonwealth’s estimated cut of the funds is around $23 million a year, but not everyone is excited about the ease of mobile sports betting.

In a separate announcement, Pennyrile Electric said "power supplies are tightening" with extremely cold temperatures in the region.

Among concerns of Republican U.S. House lawmakers was the Pentagon’s roughly $114 million request for the programs in the military’s $884 billion authorized, but not yet funded, budget.

The governor's campaign manager disputes Randall Weddle's account of what went wrong.

Craig Richardson, a Hopkinsville attorney, will represent Senate District 3 after he was the lone candidate to file for the seat that Sen. Whitney Westerfield will not seek again at the end of his current term.

The Republican Party of Kentucky’s central committee narrowly approved a resolution by secret ballot, but House Speaker David Osborne said “it will not be our intent” to call the resolution in the House.