The Latest Breaking News from Kentucky

A southern Kentucky university recently received the largest gift in school history – 25 million dollars. Leslie Ryser is the University of the Cumberlands’ executive vice president for Institutional Advancement. She said the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation has been a university partner for more than 40 years.

The Labor Day sight of a flamingo in Rowan County is likely a result of the bird being blown off course by Hurricane Idalia. That’s according to the state Fish and Wildlife Resources Department. Zack Couch is the non-game program coordinator for the department. He said the flamingo may be…

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has pushed his opposition to Kentucky’s abortion ban to the forefront of his reelection campaign

A combination of grant money and private funding worth $386 million is going towards adding high-speed Internet to 46,200 homes and businesses in 46 Kentucky counties.

Applications for Kentucky’s Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) are still available as one of the hottest summers on record comes to a close.

A few billion tons of waste coal sit in impoundment sites across the Commonwealth. Scientists at the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research have determined a use for that material.

Should the Kentucky senator decide to step down as Senate minority leader, his most likely successor would be one of the ‘three Johns’

Questions over which side was being more compassionate emerged as a key tension in a federal appeals court, which heard arguments on whether to block transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care in Kentucky and Tennessee

The grant funding comes from the federal Victims or Crime Act.