Joe Sonka

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 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.

State Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton of Louisville has pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in 2024. It’s the second time she has been sentenced for DUI in the past five years.

With U.S. Rep. Andy Barr not running for reelection, several candidates in both parties are vying for the open seat and have already raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Republicans running for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s open seat in Kentucky, along with outside PACs, have already raised and spent millions of dollars.

More than a dozen airports around the country are refusing to air the video blaming Democrats for the shutdown due to being overly partisan, including in Louisville and Lexington.

Data from the study shows one county jail in Kentucky had contracted with ICE to hold roughly 120 detainees in January. By August, nine county jails held more than 900.

Kentucky GOP Congressman Thomas Massie is facing attacks from President Donald Trump, but was lent a hand by Sen. Rand Paul in a six-stop tour through his district.

Kentucky hemp farmers sent a letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell asking him for a meeting and to not again try to insert language into a bill banning certain hemp-derived products.

The 2025 session of the Kentucky legislature may have ended in March, but businesses and advocacy groups still spent $10 million lobbying lawmakers in the subsequent five months.