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An Italian immigrant who sold oysters and fish in Hopkinsville in the 1930s is one of the personalities from local history who helped spark a special meal at the Pennyroyal Area Museum.

An experiment that aims to tackle loneliness uses a pair of old pay phones that connect two communities 3,000 miles apart.

Section 23 of the state Constitution prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude “except as a punishment for a crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”

A provision in House Bill 534 would invite judicial candidates to disclose their political party affiliation and their current and past voter registration, including “communicating political values or viewpoints consistent with his or her party affiliation.”

A celebration of Women's History Month and the United States' 250th anniversary through the exemplary lives of women connected to Hopkinsville.

Columnist Teri Carter questions why Kentucky lawmakers brought the Florida governor to Frankfort to tout a balanced budget amendment.

As a winter storm swept across Kentucky, Hoptown Chronicle editor Jennifer P. Brown watched it unfold from Lexington, reflecting on past ice storms and checking in with friends back home.

Constructed in 1916, the school building on First Street has been vacant since 1988.

Until the brain is fully developed, good public policy steps in to protect young people from potential harms of tobacco and alcohol. The same is true when it comes to protecting pocketbooks, writes Commonwealth Policy Center executive director Richard Nelson.

In a decades-old holiday tradition, Al Cross hands out imaginary Christmas gifts to Kentucky political figures, using wit and current events to make pointed observations about power and accountability.

It was a big night all around for the city water utility and its employees. HWEA’s float received the grand champion award for a parade float. And retiring general manager Derrick Watson was the parade grand marshal.