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Renee Shaw, one of the most well-known moderators and journalists at Kentucky Educational Television for nearly three decades at the public television network, will lead the public media organization as its new executive director and CEO. In a Wednesday press release, KET announced Shaw as its new executive director…
This column was originally published in the Northern Kentucky Tribune. Tuesday’s blue tsunami that gave Kentucky one more Democratic congressman, two more Democratic state senators and eight more Democratic state House members raises at least two questions: Would Gov. Andy Beshear have won the race for U.S. senator…
Voters across the country administered a sharp reprimand to President Donald Trump and Republicans who hold majorities in Congress, with Democrats gaining comfortable majorities in the Senate and the House. Several U.S. Senate and House races remained uncalled by The Associated Press as Election Day ended on the East…
Kentucky Democrats flipped nine seats in the statehouse Tuesday, though Republicans’ supermajority in the General Assembly was unchanged in this General Election. Some of the races were extremely close and candidates may request recounts. Republican Rep. Jeff Hodgson was just 100 votes ahead of Democrat William Zorn…
Incumbent mayors in Kentucky’s two biggest cities won their reelection bids in Tuesday’s General Election. Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg and Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton will both continue in their roles after nonpartisan elections. As of 10:30 p.m. Greenberg received more than 130,670 votes and had claimed…
A Fayette Circuit Court judge has defeated a judge appointed by Gov. Andy Beshear in a Kentucky Court of Appeals race. Voters in the 5th Appellate District backed Judge Lucy VanMeter over Court of Appeals Judge Will Moynahan Tuesday evening by a margin of 51%. Beshear had appointed Moynahan in 2025 after Justice…
LEXINGTON — Kentucky voters have decided to give Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr a promotion to the U.S. Senate. Barr, who has represented Central Kentucky since 2012, defeated Democrat Charles Booker, a former state representative from Louisville with 55% to 43% of the vote, according to unofficial results. The…
LEXINGTON — Kentucky Democrats have regained control of a central U.S. House District with former federal prosecutor and Navy veteran Zach Dembo. Gaining support from top Kentucky Democrats, like Gov. Andy Beshear, and national figures, Dembo was elected in Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District Tuesday evening…
Kentucky voters have approved a constitutional amendment to curb governors’ pardon powers around elections. The amendment won at the ballot box Tuesday by a vote of almost 40 percentage points. Unofficial results were 71% in favor to 29% opposing. The change limits Kentucky governors’ power to grant pardons and…
Incumbent congressmen who were seeking reelection in Kentucky have been reelected to another term. Republicans U.S. Reps. James Comer, Brett Guthrie and Hal Rogers won their elections Tuesday in the 1st, 2nd and 5th districts respectively. Democratic U.S. Rep. Morgan McGarvey in the 3rd district also got another term…
Hyperscale data center developers are eyeing a potentially massive, controversial sales tax break passed by Kentucky state lawmakers, but they might have to meet a number of requirements recently outlined by a state board to get it. The Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development published new policy documents Monday…
Polls at 6 a.m. opened to a beautiful fall day in Kentucky, as voters made their way to precincts around the state. Voters will decide who is going to replace U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, as well as all six Congressional districts. One of those, the heavily contested 6th District will be heavily watched by politicos
Holy Warrior Pete Hegseth has declared holy war on “fatties, trannies, beardos” and “weirdos” in the military. History, which I taught in a community college for two dozen years, instructs that in combat, corpulence and competence are not mutually exclusive. From William the Conqueror to Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf…
Early voting was up across Kentucky in comparison to the last midterm election in 2022. During Kentucky’s early voting period between Thursday and Saturday, 377,269 Kentuckians cast ballots. Most of them were Democrats, 180,541. Republicans had 170,304 voters. The combined total of absentee voters and early voters is…
This column was first published in the Northern Kentucky Tribune. Kentuckians are heading to the polls (no-excuse early voting was Oct. 29-31) to elect a U.S. senator, six members of the U.S. House, half the state Senate, the entire state House, many judges and local officials – and decide whether Kentucky governors…
Greg Davenport says he’s not opposed to progress. But he has serious misgivings when it comes to a proposed 16-inch natural gas pipeline that a public agency wants to run through his family’s Christian County farm, property his family has owned since the 1940s. “Basically, they said, ‘Sign this, or we’ll take you to…
WASHINGTON — When the polls close Tuesday night, the 2026 U.S. election will go down as one of history’s most expensive and extraordinarily ugly midterms — galvanizing record-breaking early voter turnout among a deeply divided electorate. Voters on Saturday crossed the high-water mark of 52.7 million early votes cast…
WASHINGTON — As of early Friday, more than 46 million Americans had cast ballots ahead of Election Day, eclipsing the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. In the 2022 midterm elections, 45.9 million Americans voted early, according to the UF Election Lab…
LEXINGTON — Fred Vickers said he waited more than an hour to vote at the Tates Creek library in Lexington Thursday afternoon. “Once you get inside, there’s nothing to it,” Vickers added. He waited to cast his ballot because he felt like it was his “civic duty.” The line at the library stretched out the front
Kentucky Educational Television’s executive director and CEO Shae Hopkins, who led the public television network for more than 17 years while the network amassed viewers and brought in regional and national awards, died Thursday. She was 69. Hopkins had planned to retire from her role at the end of the year while a…
As concerns rise about the potential for federal influence over the results of next week’s midterm elections, many voting experts and advocates remain confident that the nation’s highly localized systems of administering and counting votes will persevere. Facing sinking approval ratings over high prices, the White…
Kentucky elected Mitch McConnell to the U.S. Senate 42 years ago, and through all those years, McConnell worked relentlessly to radically change American law and politics to allow billionaires and corporations to pour massive amounts of money into election campaigns. While demolishing campaign finance laws, McConnell…
NICHOLASVILLE — With just days left before to sway voters in Kentucky’s central congressional 6th District, Democrat Zach Dembo and Republican Ralph Alvarado are making their final pitches with entourages of fellow party members. As Republicans nationally batten down the hatches as Democrats are predicted to take…
WASHINGTON — Communities throughout the country have been inundated with television ads and outside spending as politicians try to spur voter turnout in the most competitive U.S. House races in Tuesday’s midterm elections. The focus on a short list of campaigns highlights how much power voters in a small number of…
It was another financial institution’s commercial that motivated me to create something different. Two busy white, apparently nondisabled, suburban parents were standing on their carefully manicured lawn talking about how they needed to go to the bank to plan for the future of their adult son with Down syndrome. They…
Laurel Circuit Judge Michael Caperton has denied former London Mayor Randall Weddle’s motion to move his case – that alleges excess campaign contributions to help Gov. Andy Beshear win reelection in 2023 – from Laurel County to Franklin County. The order, issued on Oct. 15, is the first significant pre-trial order in…
Tensions are high during the last week of the election season. But that reality requires us to be even more clear-eyed on what the law requires and what will happen on the ground on Election Day. This week brought a flurry of news stories generating concern about the federal Department of Justice sending election…
It started as an idea years ago among his buddies: Why not be the mayor? Thirty-year-old Herbie Hardin has lived near Nelson County’s city of Fairfield his entire life, riding his bike as a kid down the street to visit his aunt. It was an easy decision for him to move there, a city with
Less than a week before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s unprecedented drive for power over elections has set the stage for a series of courtroom fights that could quickly lead to a high-stakes showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court over the limits of federal authority. Democrats and voting rights advocates have…
Progressive Twitch streamer Hasan Piker has filed a defamation lawsuit against Kentuckian and conservative political commentator Scott Jennings seeking $72.5 million in damages. In a complaint filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, attorneys for Piker argued Jennings “falsely told a nationwide podcast…
OWENSBORO, Ky. – On Oct. 1, incumbent Daviess County Judge-Executive Charlie Castlen was at the Rooster Booster forum when he brought up “the major unspoken issue of this campaign.” That issue was the fairness ordinance, which was aimed at protecting LGBTQ+ individuals but was rejected in 2020 by the fiscal court. But…
A week before Election Day, several pundits and prognosticators have predicted that Kentucky’s 6th District congressional race could be a kind of national bellwether for a potential blue wave throughout the country. Why? A flip from a 12-year GOP hold on the Central Kentucky district in a very red state would herald…
Federal regulators are cracking down on the nonprofits responsible for coordinating organ donations, aiming to begin shutting down substandard groups by early next year. New criteria will score the organizations on donation and transplantation rates and will decertify the bottom tier, meaning their contracts with the…
In the first three years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion in June 2022, more than 900 women faced criminal charges for conduct related to their pregnancies, according to a new report. Most state laws that prohibit or regulate abortion seek to penalize those who provide…
At 2:30 Saturday morning, I woke up troubled by the October 23 hearing in the Kentucky Court of Appeals that I had attended. One thought kept returning: We shouldn’t have been in that courtroom at all. I had listened as attorneys debated subpoenas, funding, the State Auditor’s authority and whether the dispute was…
Kentuckians won’t just vote on who to replace the outgoing U.S. Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell in the general election on Nov. 3. In addition to a constitutional amendment and local races, voters will decide who will represent them in the Kentucky General Assembly for the next two- and four- year terms. While all 100…
Kentucky election officials say they have been alerted by the U.S. Department of Justice that election monitors will head to the state’s largest cities for next week’s general election. A DOJ attorney sent an emailed letter to Republican Secretary of State Michael Adams and Kentucky State Board of Elections Executive…
Louisville Family Court Judge Lauren Adams Ogden will be suspended for 30 days after the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission found she violated multiple rules of judicial conduct. According to the agreed-upon order, released publicly Monday, Ogden will be suspended from the bench for 30 unpaid days beginning at…
For the November general election, early voting in Kentucky begins Thursday. All registered voters may cast ballots Thursday, Friday and Saturday through in-person no-excuse voting. Hours may vary by county. To find polling locations by county, visit the Kentucky State Board of Elections website. The general election…
Earlier this year, 30 Lexington residents, selected at random, spent more than 30 hours together talking about something that most of us don’t think about at all: the rules that underpin our local government. These residents were Republicans, Democrats, and independents. They were younger and older, from different…
John “Drew” Williams has put around 140,000 miles on his car since he began running as a Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. James Comer last year. That’s amounted to about 15 oil changes as Williams has traveled across the 1st Congressional District, which spans from West Kentucky to Frankfort. “I…
The U.S. Department of Justice is stepping up its legal campaign over the midterm elections, suing Alaska over its U.S. Senate election and appealing a lawsuit against suspected noncitizen voters in California. Election law experts have cast doubt on the strength of the cases, criticizing them as performative. The…
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A Union County judge has rejected a man’s constitutional challenge of Kentucky’s ban on child sex dolls. Kenneth Moore, 50, was charged in August 2025, according to court records, with a total of 16 counts of possession or viewing matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor, promoting a sexual performance by a…
The University of Kentucky’s healthcare arm will open a skilled nursing facility at their new campus at Hamburg in Lexington, working with Louisville-based Signature HealthCARE. The 105-bed facility will be a halfway point between hospital and home, officials said. The UK Board of Trustees approved the deal on Friday…
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The candidates in Kentucky’s close 6th District Congressional race debated each other over rising grocery and gas prices, the war in Iran, data centers and the Epstein files during a televised debate Thursday evening. Democrat Zach Dembo and Republican Ralph Alvarado both laid out how they would…
Many of us still recall the fight to defeat KY Amendment 2, which would have allowed public funds to go to private schools. Kentuckians overwhelmingly rejected this amendment by a margin of 65% to 35%. This should have sent a clear message to our representatives. Yet in February of 2026, the Kentucky legislature…
A day after submitting nominations for an appointment to the Executive Branch Ethics Commission, Republican Auditor Allison Ball says Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear rejected her list. A spokesperson for the governor said the list was “a clear political stunt.” Ball said in a Thursday statement she found it “deeply…
A federal judge on Wednesday night blocked the Department of Homeland Security from conducting election-related field operations that could sweep up U.S. citizens in nine states. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, an appointee of President Joe Biden in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, issued a…
Debates sure aren’t what they used to be. Do you remember gathering around the TV (how quaint!) to watch two candidates try to politely (how delightfully old-fashioned!) out-argue each other on substantive points of public policy? It’s not that debates aren’t consequential. Ask former President Joe Biden what a big…
Republican Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman says it is constitutional to use public, county funding to fund the placement of school resource officers at private schools, according to a legal opinion published earlier this month. Republican Boone County Attorney Jordan Turner had requested the legal opinion as…
Republican Auditor Allison Ball is requesting some familiar faces join the Executive Branch Ethics Commission. Ball’s office issued a press release with her nominations Wednesday morning, along with a letter to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. Ball’s nominees are: Christine Trout Van Tatenhove, who is special counsel to…
A Lexington-based nuclear energy startup is proposing to build a massive nuclear power plant complex along the Ohio River in Lewis County, which, if fully realized, would be the largest nuclear power plant site in the country and the first nuclear power plant in Kentucky. In a Wednesday press release, the Nuclear…
Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is calling on universities within the commonwealth to rigorously review their policies against sexual assault and harassment within 90 days. Beshear is asking university officials to consider if campus policies against sexual violence ensure students are protected and feel safe…
Birth centers are an option for those with low-risk pregnancies and are correlated with more positive health outcomes, but 10 states do not have any birth centers at all, and more could be built with certain state policy solutions and different models of care, a new report suggests. Birth centers can be an attractive…
Every October, Kentucky politics undergoes a peculiar transformation. Campaign advertisements become nastier, accusations grow louder, and rumors that spent months buried suddenly find their way into mailboxes, television commercials, and social media feeds. Candidates who spent the summer shaking hands and kissing…
Dana Hanson has seen plenty of political divisiveness on the news and social media in recent years. And up until about a year ago, the Mercer County resident who had voted for Republicans “her entire life” had viewed politics as two-sided — the left versus the right. But over the past several months, as she
Single-family home completions remain stuck at early pandemic levels as of September as costs, labor supply shortages and high interest take a toll on home builders, especially in the Northeast and South. Apartment building was a more mixed picture, down nationally but up sharply in the Midwest (53%) and West (18%)…
Spending by political action committees in Kentucky’s most competitive U.S. House race has reached more than $6.2 million with two weeks to go until Election Day. In the 6th Congressional District, PACs boosting Republican Ralph Alvarado have a slight spending edge over those backing Democrat Zach Dembo, according to…
In the race to succeed U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr and former Democratic state Rep. Charles Booker sounded off on a host of issues Monday evening in their only televised debate ahead of Election Day. Throughout the debate, which was hosted by WKYT and carried by other Gray Media stations…
There is no single explanation for America’s high healthcare costs. But any serious effort to control them must start with hospitals. Between 2022 and 2024, hospital care accounted for $277 billion, or 40%, of the growth in national health spending, according to a KFF analysis. Those costs reach families through…
Kentucky’s utility regulator has granted permission to investor-owned utility Kentucky Power to build a replacement cooling tower and partially demolish an aging existing tower at a coal-fired power plant the utility co-owns near Moundsville, West Virginia. In a Friday order, the Kentucky Public Service Commission…
Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services says a vendor’s recent security breach exposed some health plan information for nearly 4,000 people. According to a Monday notice, Gainwell Technologies experienced security breaches on March 26, April 16 and April 21 and learned about them in August. During the…
This story first appeared on Louisville Public Media. It’s republished here as part of the Appalachian News Exchange reporting partnership to strength Kentucky journalism. A lawsuit filed in a federal district court Thursday alleges the Department of Homeland Security has systematically collected sensitive data on…
When Patrice Jetter and Garry Wickham became engaged, the first decisions were of small, giddy consequence: where to hold the ceremony, whom to invite, what to wear. But soon enough, a far weightier question eclipsed them all: whether they could afford to marry at all. They learned that, as people with disabilities…
Churchill Downs contributed $570,000 during the last three months to Republican PACs that have been spending big on independent advertising aimed at electing State Sen. Julie Raque Adams and other Republicans to the General Assembly in November. The flood of campaign money from Churchill since July 1 is documented in…
Despite what polls and political analysts say, Democrat Charles Booker says he’s ready to win the race for Kentucky’s open U.S. Senate seat next month. In an interview with the Kentucky Lantern, Booker said the race against Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr “feels like the perfect storm.” He said his previous Senate runs…
This column was originally published in the Northern Kentucky Tribune. LEXINGTON, Ky. – It’s been 30 years or more since Kentucky was a bellwether state in national politics, but it might be this year. Part of it, at least. That part is the section of Kentucky that the nation may know best, the Bluegrass Region
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS — President Donald Trump returned to Northern Kentucky for the second time this year in hopes of swaying GOP voters in the commonwealth to back Republicans at the ballot box. Despite gaining attention from the Cincinnati area media market, the Saturday rally at Northern Kentucky University focused…
Saturday's chilly No Kings Rally in downtown Lexington looked similar to past demonstrations throughout President Donald Trump's second term. But organizers hope this event is more productive than previous iterations at activating people to take action.
Today’s health insurance affordability crisis is a rerun of the one Kentucky faced in the 1990s. The cause is the same. The path to relief is the same. And once again, Frankfort can deliver it. In 1994, Frankfort enacted new controls that supporters promised would make health insurance more affordable and accessible…
A proposed Mason County data center campus for the technology company Meta could avoid paying about $50 million a year in local taxes through a tentative agreement between the county and Meta, according to a new analysis from a progressive think tank. In its Friday analysis, the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy…
The sheer size of investment in data centers is drawing concern as it surpasses all other historical booms and crowds out other more job-creating ventures. Until now, no industry had driven the U.S. economy with such force since the railroad expansion of the late 1800s, when titans battled one another to lay the…
Kentucky’s most competitive U.S House race this year continues to tighten as both Republicans and Democrats pull out the stops with days to go before the general election begins. The 6th District candidates, Republican Ralph Alvarado and Democrat Zach Dembo, have agreed to one televised debate ahead of the November…
Over the next few years, Kentucky is facing the largest Medicaid cuts in the program’s history. Starting in January, the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act will take Medicaid coverage away from many thousands of Kentuckians. Separately, state Medicaid cuts will go into effect in July unless the 2027 General Assembly…
Inflation grew to a 3.7% annual rate in September, according to an Oct. 14 report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from 3.4% in August. In the last consumer price inflation report before midterm elections, with voters already fed up with higher prices, September’s number was the highest since May, when it…
WASHINGTON — Democrats are touting an ambitious legislative agenda centered on affordability and accountability if they take back the U.S. House or Senate — or both — in November. A slew of pressing policy debates are on tap for Democrats, including healthcare, immigration, voting rights, the war in Iran, oversight…
The Jefferson County Teachers Association’s PAC donated $200,000 to a pro-Republican PAC in the May primary. Now, the same conservative PAC is running attack ads against candidates endorsed by the teachers union. Federal Election Commission records show JCTA’s PAC, Better Schools Kentucky, donated the funds to the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky.— Jefferson Family Court Judge Angela Johnson said she needs more information on the education that former Gov. Matt Bevin and his ex-wife, Glenna, provided for their adopted son, Jonah. In court Thursday morning, Johnson said: “I want proof that Jonah received an appropriate education, and we’ll go…
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has issued an executive order overhauling the board overseeing the state’s broadband network KentuckyWired, throwing another wrench into a contentious lawsuit the network is entangled in. In his Wednesday order, Beshear cited a Kentucky Supreme Court decision in…
Farmers are reeling from tariffs, rising fuel and fertilizer costs, soaring insurance premiums, and the increasing cost of debt. Now, more than ever, America’s agricultural community needs diversification. Agricultural hemp is part of that solution. “We farm 25,000 acres of soybeans, wheat and corn, and to be an…
Some 80,000 Kentuckians have lost access to the food benefits known as SNAP because of federal changes to the program, Gov. Andy Beshear said in a letter sent to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Kentucky’s congressional delegation on Wednesday. Beshear said that number includes 24,655 children and…
The technology company Meta will invest billions of dollars for a proposed Mason County hyperscale data center and will pay millions of dollars to local schools and the county but will also receive a 40-year tax break on local property taxes, according to a tentative agreement. During a regular Mason County Fiscal…
Kentucky’s largest electric utility has saved tens of millions of dollars in recent years by installing more than 1 million digital “smart” utility meters at homes and businesses in large part by being able to check the meters remotely for energy usage, disconnections and reconnections. But a national nonprofit argues…
I thought the University of Louisville had listened. Two years ago, the university hosted public meetings about the prospect of developing Stansbury Park, a historic Olmsted-designed park at the edge of campus. The community pushed back and the idea seemed to disappear. Then, in August, UofL President Gerry Bradley…
Sen. Chris McDaniel is on the road this week, crossing Kentucky to urge voters to support a constitutional amendment aimed at curbing governors’ pardon powers around elections. The Ryland Heights Republican repeatedly proposed the amendment in the Kentucky General Assembly for seven years following a flurry of…
WASHINGTON — As partisan tensions rise in advance of the fast-approaching midterm elections, students will test their knowledge Wednesday in a field that’s long enjoyed bipartisan support: civics. Fifty-two middle school students hailing from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and American Samoa, will compete at the…
President Donald Trump has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, to resign after texts between her and former Kentucky governor candidate and suspended attorney Eric Deters became public, according to published reports. The Wall Street Journal reported last week on text messages between Guilfoyle…
President Donald Trump will be in Northern Kentucky on Saturday, Oct. 17. Trump will be in Highland Heights, but the specific location was not included in an event sign up. Doors open at 10:30 a.m., a rally starts at 12:30 p.m. Trump will speak at 2 p.m. The event is free, but registration is required.
As the nation’s physician shortage worsens, some fear the Trump administration’s immigration policies will dissuade or prevent doctors who earned their medical degrees in foreign countries from practicing in the United States. Among all U.S. doctors, an estimated one quarter were educated abroad. But they make up an…
A recent column said nonpartisan judicial elections present a problem for voters, namely, “How can voters know how judges may rule on the cases that come before them?” The key word in that sentence is “may.” Judges should not commit to ruling one way or the other, but to decide cases based on the law
Being an election official isn’t easy these days. In recent years, local election officials across the country, including poll workers, have faced an increase in threats and harassment. According to a 2024 survey released by the Brennan Center for Justice, 38% of local election officials experienced threats…
While the Kentucky Supreme Court isn’t reconsidering its decision in last spring’s impeachment of Fayette County Judge Julie Goodman, it does plan to weigh in on her decisions in a controversial hit-and-run case at the center of the legislative proceedings. Two legal experts who spoke to the Kentucky Lantern said that…
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in the U.S. House condemned a “deeply disturbing” raid early Monday at the District of Columbia home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat who has long been a target of verbal attacks by President Donald Trump and Republicans. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Democratic…
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. — As kin gathered at her home three days before Christmas, Nancy Tucker expected her son Adrian to drop by during his dinner break. She knew he was excited to see the family. But she wasn’t worried when he didn’t show; he must have been held up at work. A few hours later
On the night of Sept. 30, Tennessee strapped Christa Pike to a gurney and tried to kill her. More than an hour and two doses of pentobarbital later, witnesses could still hear her breathing. She told the execution team her arm felt like it was about to burst. Four months earlier, Tennessee’s team spent more
Lexington extended its temporary ban on data center construction. Mercer County rejected regulations that would allow hyperscale data centers. And a Carroll County ethics board is looking into dealings surrounding a proposed hyperscale data center. As local governments in Kentucky are weighing and making decisions on…
Measles cases for the calendar year surpassed 4,000 for the first time in decades, with as many as five deaths in Pennsylvania, as the federal government steps in with financial help for states but also fans vaccination fears and skepticism. A weekly report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed…
CORBIN, Ky. — While Republican U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers and Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear disagreed on how President Donald Trump’s policies are impacting Appalachian Kentucky, the two came together Friday to announce money going toward economic development in the region. At the annual Shaping Our Appalachia Region Summit…
Kentucky has now confirmed more than 100 cases of measles as the state grapples with its highest case load this century. According to the state’s measles dashboard, Kentucky has confirmed 104 cases of the highly contagious disease, more than half of which were confirmed in September. The Department for Public Health…