Morgan Watkins
Health ReporterMorgan Watkins is LPM's health reporter. She hails from Florida, where she started her career covering city and county government at the Gainesville Sun. Louisville has been her home since 2016. She covered national and state politics, as well as higher education, for The Courier Journal before joining LPM. Email Morgan at mwatkins@lpm.org.
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Jefferson County Public Schools sued the consulting firm McKinsey and Co. in 2021 over its work with an infamous opioid manufacturer. Now, a proposed class action settlement is on the table. -
A new federal ruling ensures gender-affirming hormone therapy will remain inaccessible to transgender minors in Kentucky while a lawsuit over it continues.
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Senate Bill 150 might be best-known for prohibiting gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender kids. But the new law also changed the rules for sex ed in the state’s public schools.
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An aerospace company with operations in Floyd County announced it bioprinted a knee meniscus — essentially, a chunk of cartilage — on the International Space Station.
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Baptist Health and Humana faced a deadline Friday to reach an agreement for continued in-network health insurance coverage.
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This week, the Louisville Metro Police Department released body camera and dashcam footage recorded during a Sept. 7 shooting when an officer was seriously injured.
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With seven weeks left before the gubernatorial election, Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron staked out a new position on Kentucky’s abortion ban this week.
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Federal public health agencies greenlit new vaccines for COVID-19 this week. Experts say they’ll help people protect themselves against the latest coronavirus variants.
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Six weeks ago, city officials got people’s attention when they said they planned to do a controlled burn of the house at 6213 Applegate Lane. A new plan does not involve burning it down.
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Gov. Andy Beshear held an open house Saturday at his reelection campaign’s field office in Louisville’s West End. He said economic opportunities are coming to Kentucky, and no one should be left out.
