Hannah Saad

Intense winds, including suspected tornadoes, ripped through east Louisville and several western Kentucky counties Wednesday night. Gov. Andy Beshear said no fatalities have been reported, but noted injuries and structural damage.

A Kentucky Senator has tried to limit when governors can issue pardons or commute sentences in a gubernatorial election year during five of the last six legislative sessions. This year’s attempt gained committee approval on Wednesday.

Officials with a Planned Parenthood chapter serving six states – including Kentucky – say they have experienced a “significant surge” in demand for permanent and long-acting reversible birth control options following Donald Trump’s election victory earlier this month.

The Tennessee Valley Authority approved a 150-megawatt arrangement to power Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, during a meeting at Murray State University.

A Kentucky legislator announced plans Tuesday to reintroduce a bill in the 2025 session that would make adding fluoride to drinking water optional for the state’s utilities.

The first LGBTQ+ inclusive bourbon festival in the United States is taking place this week throughout several regions across the commonwealth.

Legislators on Kentucky’s Housing Task Force have heard the same refrain time and again over the past few months: The Commonwealth needs more places to live, especially more affordable and middle-income housing. But, Monday’s meeting drew attention to challenges that some officials say prevent those options from being built.

Kentucky’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday the Judicial Conduct Commission — the only entity authorized to take disciplinary actions against sitting judges — does not have the authority to permanently remove them from office.

A restroom area under construction at a new middle school in Lexington drew the attention of several Kentucky lawmakers Tuesday during a legislative committee meeting, leading some to consider potential legislation to prevent other schools from following a bathroom model for gender-neutral spaces.

What records — if any — should be made available to the public during active criminal investigations or prosecution? That was the central question that Kentucky Supreme Court justices heard arguments about on Wednesday in a case that could determine whether a police department is allowed to withhold records from a news outlet because of the records’ connections to a criminal investigation.