The Latest Breaking News from Kentucky

Kentucky Republican Rep. Andy Barr on Tuesday jumped into the race to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell.

The firm already has plants in the United States, and said the move would help expand capacity at sites in Kentucky, Indiana, New Jersey, Oregon and California.

Kentucky’s first woman chief justice says she’s never given much thought to gender

Signs of renewal are underway at the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Kentucky since the floodwaters have receded

A fascinating video captures a Kentucky restaurant owner’s unorthodox method for combating floodwaters.

Additional evacuations could happen in western Kentucky this week

After days of unrelenting downpours swelled rivers to near record levels across Kentucky, residents are closely monitoring waterways for signs they are cresting or even receding in hopes that widespread cleanup can finally start

Climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe

Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in their own Land, which explored the motivations and resentments of working-class conservatives in Louisiana, was named one of six books to help understand Donald Trump’s win by the New York Times when he was first elected president, in 2016. (Another was Hillbilly Elegy, by now…