Justin Hicks

Louisville Public Media’s latest tool uses real-time driving directions to find your quickest route to an early voting location. Early voting is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.

The U.S. Department of Justice plans to monitor voting locations in Louisville and Lexington. State election leaders say that could violate state laws.

Voting rights and electronic privacy groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security for compiling sensitive data on Kentucky voters. State election officials have refused to share that information.

Retired miners, their families and policy groups are lobbying Congress to uphold worker protections and pass legislation that updates black lung disability programs.

Mayor Craig Greenberg and Metro Council Member Shameka Parrish-Wright outlined their plans if elected at a packed Louisville Forum event. While Greenberg touted recent investments and promised to keep up progress, Parrish-Wright accused him of being out of touch with everyday people.

This summer. Louisville Public Media revealed two school board candidates didn’t live in the districts they sought to represent.

Last year, Black drivers were more than twice as likely as white drivers to be searched by Louisville police officers during a traffic stop. That’s the topline finding in a report given to the Louisville Metro Police Department from its own hired consultant.

After being detained at the Louisville Airport, friends and family say a local jail is holding Sarafinah Bukirwa for federal immigration charges and isn’t giving her proper care – now she’s in a health “crisis.”

After an LPM News investigation uncovered errors that caused voters to get the wrong ballots in Jefferson County, a review by a state specialist discovered potential issues at more than 2,100 addresses in Jefferson County.

After a UPS plane crashed in Louisville killing 14 people and injuring dozens more, AI-generated posts flooded social media with disinformation.

Last year, the federal government issued a new rule requiring self-insured coal mines to prove they can cover 100% of future black lung disease costs. Two Democrats say they’ve heard the Trump administration isn’t following the rule.

As emergency crews clean up the wreckage of a fatal UPS plane crash in Louisville, nearly 100 businesses near the airport still aren’t allowed free access to their property. While they wait, government officials have activated some aid programs.

A newly released preliminary investigation has found cracks in hardware meant to hold the left engine to the UPS cargo plane that crashed, killing and injuring dozens of people in Louisville.

On Wednesday, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg and the Jefferson County Coroner said they have formally confirmed the identities of all the victims who were recovered from the plane crash site.

President Donald Trump’s administration has promised financial relief for soybean farmers when the federal government reopens. The hardwood lumber industry, which has been struggling with impacts from Trump’s first term, wants to be included.