Kentucky

Government contractors, health-related groups and the medical marijuana industry were among hundreds of organizations that spent $9.1 million lobbying Kentucky’s executive branch agencies on policy in the fiscal year ending this summer.

As emergency crews clean up the wreckage of a fatal UPS plane crash in Louisville, nearly 100 businesses near the airport still aren’t allowed free access to their property. While they wait, government officials have activated some aid programs.

Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts and Kentucky State Police announced last week that a program aimed at modernizing the way search warrants get requested and evaluated is now live in all 120 counties.

The EPA is moving to narrow the definitions of protected waterways under the Clean Water Act, opening many waterways to pollution and destruction.

President Donald Trump's administration is capping funding for long-term housing programs, a move that worries homeless service providers.

A Republican state representative plans to file legislation that would require all Kentucky police agencies to partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a program that gives local officers some power to enforce federal immigration law.

Eastern Kentucky is full of isolated, rural towns that have experienced decline alongside the coal industry. But some who want to stick around are trying to reverse that by revitalizing the region's downtown spaces.

GE Appliances says it has awarded more than $150 million in new contracts to U.S. suppliers as a result of its decision to shift production from China to Kentucky.

The chair of the Kentucky Public Service Commission asked Kentucky Power executives to explain to electricity customers why they need to pay for a coal plant in West Virginia.

Despite the reopening of the federal government, refugees who have resettled in the U.S. no longer qualify for SNAP benefits. The Republican-backed "Big Beautiful Bill" signed into law in July revoked a longtime policy of allowing refugees food assistance under SNAP.