The Latest Breaking News from Kentucky

Emily Dickinson on the reaction to snakes, a good photo of a black-crowned night heron on the Chicago River, the restoration numbers of elk in Kentucky and a question/notes on stinkhorns are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

From presidential election coverage in Kenya, to a young Shiite Muslim boy flagellating himself during an Ashoura procession in India, to the aftermath of flooding in Kentucky, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated Press in the…

Kentucky's governor says the Federal Emergency Management Agency is denying too many requests for assistance in flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky

There were no injuries in the crash.

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has split the country into joyous supporters and furious dissenters. Emotions are running high, and some protests have turned violent. Yet research shows that people on either side of the abortion rights issue can bridge their divide if they speak directly…

Donald Trump's lifelong grift is nearing its final act. Across America his power is fading — and he knows it

Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky was opened up to help contain a tuberculosis outbreak and a series of 'bloody' experiments were carried out on its suffering patients

Yellowstone, Death Valley, Kentucky – experts say extreme rainfall spurred by global heating is rendering historical norms obsolete

Kentucky basketball star Oscar Tshiebwe isn’t necessarily relaxing on the team’s bonding trip to the Bahamas this week.

The mysterious death of a high school athlete who spent days helping his fellow eastern Kentuckians clean up from flooding has added another layer of grief to the tragedy

WASHINGTON — As political reaction reached a boil over the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Mitch McConnell was standing in Eastern Kentucky attending to the aftermath of calamitous flooding there.