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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.

Five county jails in Kentucky are now certified to hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees indefinitely.

President Donald Trump granted exemptions last week from some pollution safeguards to dozens of coal- and oil-burning power plants across the country, including four in Kentucky.

Kathleen Driskell, a Louisville-based educator, poet and essayist, is Kentucky’s next poet laureate.

A pair of Bluegrass State chefs are among the finalists named Wednesday for one of cooking’s highest honors: the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef award.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency approved a loan to help fund essential services in the wake of deadly tornadoes that hit Dawson Springs, but city officials say their access to those dollars is frozen.

A bill that passed out of the Kentucky Senate last week aims to regulate the state government’s use of artificial intelligence – safeguarding the public sector from irresponsible AI applications and putting some protections in place to prevent the spread of election-related misinformation.

A priority bill that sponsors hope will see the Bluegrass State get on the big screen more often – and provide more economic benefits to the commonwealth – passed out of a Kentucky Senate committee last week.

A bill that would create a grant program designed to advance and attract nuclear energy developments in the Bluegrass State passed out of the Kentucky Senate’s Natural Resources & Energy committee Wednesday.

It wasn’t just the corn sweat talking, 2024 was most certainly a hot one in Kentucky.

Members of four campus communities across Kentucky tabled in support of diversity, equity and inclusion practices at the state’s public universities.

The small western Kentucky community – tucked into northeastern Graves County – has several churches, an elementary school, a dollar store and a country restaurant. But it’s also home to one of the last movie rental shops in the state.