Joe Sonka
Enterprise Statehouse ReporterJoe Sonka is Kentucky Public Radio’s first enterprise statehouse reporter. He joined the team in October 2023.
Joe has covered Kentucky government and politics for nearly two decades. He grew up in Lexington and moved to Louisville in 2011, covering city and state government at LEO Weekly and then Insider Louisville. He became state government reporter for the Courier Journal in 2019 and was a lead reporter for the newspaper's 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning series on former Gov. Matt Bevin's controversial pardons just before leaving office.
You can email Joe at jsonka@lpm.org and find him at BlueSky (@joesonka.lpm.org).
-
Kentucky GOP Congressman Thomas Massie has secured the petition signatures needed to force a vote on releasing all Department of Justice files on Jeffrey Epstein. -
Kentucky GOP Sens. Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell are clashing over a provision that opponents say will destroy the growing hemp industry in America. -
An official with the National Transportation Safety Board says the left engine fell off the UPS plane as it was attempting to take off, before crashing just beyond the runway. -
The owner of a truck service shop was next door to the fiery and deadly UPS crash in Louisville on Tuesday, trapped on the property for hours. -
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said at least 11 people are dead after a UPS plane bound for Hawaii crashed near the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. -
The Kentucky Public Service Commission set rates and terms for future data center customers of East Kentucky Power Cooperative, which serves 89 counties. -
The impeachment petition alleges Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Pamela Goodwine should have recused herself from an education case she granted a rehearing for. -
State regulators are allowing Kentucky’s largest power companies to spend $3 billion on two new gas power plants, which LG&E/KU say are needed for future data centers. -
The owner of the Florida company intending to purchase several facilities from Addiction Recovery Care in Kentucky says ARC’s owner Tim Robinson will use funds from the sale to make a payment to the U.S. Department of Justice over Medicaid violations. -
The proposed settlement between the Kentucky attorney general and the state’s largest electric utility company would cut proposed electricity rate increases in half.
