Sylvia Goodman

Dozens of Kentucky laws passed earlier this year will take effect today. Here’s a look at 14 of them.

Long-planned Kentucky State Capitol renovations are pushing Frankfort lawmakers into temporary chambers. The renovations are estimated to stretch for three years.

Rare blue-ghost fireflies are generally associated with the southern Appalachian region, but researchers say their range is likely bigger than that — expanding all the way to north central Kentucky.

While enrollment has grown at Kentucky’s public universities and the Kentucky Community and Technical college system, the state has also taken a hit to two key affordability measures.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Kentucky over a regulation that gives “an undocumented alien” in-state tuition if they graduated from a Kentucky high school.

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie introduced a resolution Tuesday to “prohibit” U.S. involvement in the escalating Israel-Iran conflict, joined by several Democrats.

Kentucky followed national trends of declining educational scores in 2024 following pandemic-era lows, while seeing some moderate improvements in economic well being, according to recently released KIDS COUNT data.

Gov. Andy Beshear said Kentucky’s gas tax will drop by 1.4 cents, lowering the cost to 26 cents per gallon.

After years of advocacy, freestanding birth centers will soon be easier to open in Kentucky, as activists say many women go to neighboring Tennessee and Indiana for childbirth.

Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie was one of two GOP “no” votes against President Donald Trump’s budget bill, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives early Thursday.

After the U.S. Department of Education abruptly cancelled $34 million to Kentucky school districts and $18 million for the statewide education department, the state appealed. The federal agency has now denied $10.6 million in a case-by-case review.

Clearing its first major hurdle, a Jefferson County judge ruled Monday the victims of the 2023 Old National Bank shooting and their families have the right to sue the gun seller and manufacturer who furnished the shooter.

A student lawsuit to revive a decades old Kentucky Supreme Court case faced its first hurdle in court this week. What is the Rose decision, and why are Kentucky students in court to declare the state’s education system unconstitutional?

The Kentucky General Assembly passed Senate Bill 151 with bipartisan support. More than a year later, it still hasn’t been implemented. While the state says they don’t have the funds to implement, lawmakers say their spending proves otherwise.

The Kentucky attorney general’s office argued Tuesday that a Franklin County judge should throw out a student lawsuit alleging the state has failed to provide an adequate and equitable education.