Joe Sonka

A Jefferson County judge said Matt Bevin must serve out the rest of his 60-day jail sentence following his Thursday arrest on an outstanding contempt of court order.

Kentucky tax revenues in the past fiscal year fell well short of triggering an income tax cut in 2028, marking the third time in four years the trigger was missed.

The Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office arrested former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin Thursday at a film set in Paris, Kentucky.

An attorney in the state elections office filed to run as a write-in judicial candidate, before the same office withdrew a sitting Jefferson District judge from that race against her wishes.

A Kentucky GOP lawmaker pushed back against Trump’s social media post, which said communities resisting data centers “want to end up being backwards and poor.”

The Kentucky legislature in 2025 passed a law giving massive tax breaks to companies building data centers across the state, but Beshear wants those rolled back.

The Beshear administration is withholding 127 emails related to the Lee Specialty Clinic in advance of controversial cuts announced in June, including who sent them and when.

Opposition to hyperscale data centers is stoking bipartisanship in Kentucky, with Republicans and Democrats finding common cause in their resistance to local proposals.

The Mercer County Fiscal Court passed a one-year moratorium on data center project applications, while Burgin residents blasted an annexation proposal that would still allow one.

Addiction Recovery Care, once Kentucky’s largest treatment provider, agreed to pay $16.2 million to settle whistleblower claims of Medicaid billing fraud.

Most of the $37 million spent in the contentious GOP primary between Congressman Thomas Massie and Ed Gallrein was by PACs funded by pro-Trump billionaires, pro-Israel groups and dark money.

A split vote of the Burgin City Council advanced an ordinance to annex county land where a massive data center has been proposed, angering residents in attendance.

A free market think tank found Kentucky awarded $1.3 billion of single-bid road contracts from 2023 to 2025, calling for competitive bidding reform to avoid monopolies.

Kentucky Addiction Recovery Care owner Tim Robinson pleaded not guilty to three federal felony charges related to an alleged scheme to defraud multiple lenders.

Recent polling shows data centers are increasingly unpopular. That opposition was a factor in several local primary races in Kentucky where data center projects have popped up.