Investigations

A report from a local child advocacy group shows one out of three kids that leave foster care in Kentucky will experience homelessness or housing insecurity as an adult.

Researchers with the Vera Institute for Justice found the expansion in Kentucky’s criminal justice system has coincided with economic decline as coal and manufacturing jobs left the state.

Reporters for the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting and Louisville Public Media spent months digging into the dirty business of disaster cleanup.

New data shows that more than 1,500 miners have been diagnosed with a deadly lung disease linked to toxic silica dust found in coal mines — and Kentucky clinics may be seeing the most cases. After years of inaction, federal mine regulators are finally proposing to crack down on silica dust exposure, but will it be enough?

The city’s ethics commission won’t decide if Metro Council Member Anthony Piagentini broke ethics laws for at least another week. The commission first needs a copy of additional records and a transcript of the trial.

The third day of the ethics trial for Louisville Metro Council’s top Republican focused largely on how the COVID-19 relief grant was awarded in 2022 to the nonprofit that gave him a job.

A group of council members want the Louisville Metro Housing Authority to do a better job maintaining its catalog of complexes, specifically the 685-unit Dosker Manor.

The Metro Council’s top Republican Anthony Piagentini says he did not use his official position to get a job with the nonprofit that he helped get a COVID-19 relief grant.

Council member Anthony Piagentini faces seven counts of breaking local ethics laws. His public trial started today.

The former investigative reporter will lead the five-journalist team covering civic accountability issues across Kentucky.

One of Louisville Metro’s largest allocations from the American Rescue Plan Act went to an organization that wants to use it for a health care training center. A lack of city oversight created an opportunity for a former official with no ties to the project to profit.

Kentucky officials defended the state-managed cleanup of eastern Kentucky’s devastating flooding during a legislative meeting on Tuesday, and largely avoided addressing miscommunication and ballooning costs that have taken place during the process.