Joe Sonka

Cuts to federal agencies and grants for museums and libraries will have a large impact on the Kentucky Humanities Council and the ability of Appalshop to preserve its flood-damaged historic archives of the region.

Kentucky has a system to cut the income tax rate annually, so long as budget triggers are met. A new bill passed out of the legislature makes hitting those triggers easier.

The Kentucky Senate passed legislation that would redirect $8.5 million of funding away from the Center for Rural Development, months after it nearly used the funds on a controversial land deal.

A Kentucky bill that would subject hemp-derived beverages to new regulations and ban certain products advances further, over the objections of the hemp industry.

With little notice, Kentucky’s GOP is pushing sweeping changes to the state’s budget trigger system for annual tax cuts, as well as business tax incentives.

A bill that would give Kentucky’s public universities an additional path to firing tenured professors has cleared a Senate committee, moving one step closer to final passage.

A veteran-owned business in Jeffersontown had all of its federal contracts with Veterans Affairs abruptly canceled, but three were restored last week.

The bill passed earlier in the week with a late amendment to ban the sale of all hemp-derived beverages in Kentucky, but lawmakers dropped that provision on the Senate floor.

A fast-moving bill that could subject many rural water supplies in Kentucky to pollution may have hit a bump in the road, with a GOP chairman acknowledging “validity” of concerns.

The language of a bill was changed entirely to ban the sale of all hemp-derived beverages in Kentucky, and is now set for a quick vote in committee.

A veteran-owned business based in Jeffersontown had all of its federal contracts with Veterans Affairs abruptly canceled, which it says will hurt oversight and services.

University of Louisville President Kim Schatzel said the hiring freeze stemmed from the potential impact of recent attempts to cut university research funding.

Mitch McConnell announced his decision not to run for an eighth term to the U.S. Senate in a speech on the floor of the chamber Thursday.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has joined 23 Democratic attorneys general who are suing the Trump administration over its federal funding freeze.

The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence on a nearly party-line vote, with Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky being the only Republican to vote against her.