Derek Operle

A new book from a Kentucky native details the last public hanging in the United States, which took place in Owensboro 1936, and examines it through the lens of lynch culture in America.

Kentucky’s state legislature budgeted general funds for the senior meal programs, but senior centers now facing a budgetary shortfall that has many cutting programs and reducing meal delivery services.

A new initiative pieced together by the National Quilt Museum, along with professors at Murray State University, is using the fiber arts to teach K-12 students about geometry and other mathematical principles.

Republican Congressman James Comer addressed the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce Tuesday on the stage of the Carson Center in the far western Kentucky city’s downtown.

A lease to build the first U.S.-owned, privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the country was signed in western Kentucky on Tuesday against a backdrop of containers holding depleted tails of uranium hexafluoride – some covered in rust.

A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in far western Kentucky.

A western Kentucky site was among the four tabbed by the Department of Energy Thursday to be potential future homes of “cutting edge data center and energy generation projects.”

With just under two weeks until the 145th annual St. Jerome Picnic in Fancy Farm, the lineup of speakers is coming into focus and the emcee is busy writing her opening remarks.

Bookshelves have become battlefields in recent years. Challenges to materials and calls for book bans have climbed to levels previously unheard of across the country as culture wars stoked by political differences have brought the fight into both school and public libraries.

A new documentary released by Appalshop this week follows the nonprofit cultural preservation organization’s efforts to restore its archives nearly three years after historic and deadly flooding rocked eastern Kentucky, and severely damaged the group’s headquarters.

A company aiming to open the world’s first commercial laser uranium enrichment plant in western Kentucky took a key step over the weekend.

Kentucky leaders continue to laud efforts to attract film productions, most recently in the western part of the state.

The latest wave of executive orders from the desk of President Donald Trump seeks to speed up the development of the country’s nuclear energy infrastructure and overhaul the industry’s safety regulator, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. What does that mean for the future of energy in Kentucky?

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman was among the group of GOP state leaders who gathered at the country’s southern border to support increased border security.

Around two dozen western Kentucky protestors spoke out against proposed cuts to federal Medicaid support on Tuesday, rallying outside of Republican Congressman James Comer’s office in downtown Paducah.