Regional & State

The number of disease-carrying ticks and their habitats is expanding year by year.

Nationwide, deaths associated with alcohol, drugs and suicide, called "deaths of despair," took the lives of 186,763 Americans in 2020, a 20% increase from 2019.

Of Kentucky’s neighboring states, abortion is enshrined in Illinois — where an influx of out-of-state abortion-seekers is expected — and remains legal, but heavily restricted in Indiana, Ohio and Virginia.

The plaintiff sued Bayer after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, saying that habitual use of Roundup caused his cancer.

Gov. Andy Beshear is looking for ways to bring medical marijuana to Kentucky by executive action. Legislators have said he lacks the power to do that.