The Latest Breaking News from Kentucky

As of March 19, members of the Kentucky General Assembly, which includes the Kentucky House of Representatives and the Kentucky State Senate, have passed one bill related to election administration since the beginning of the year. A bipartisan group of legislators sponsored the bill. The bill is:   

Lengthy profile of Oversight Committee chair James Comer is loaded with folksy details — but misses the real story

LEXINGTON, Ky. — In the first regular session of the Kentucky Legislature since the state’s trigger law banning abortion took effect, the Republican supermajority showed little interest in modifying those restrictions.

Three states are holding gubernatorial elections in 2023, and four states are holding regularly scheduled legislative elections in eight of the country’s 99 state legislative chambers. As a result, five states’ trifecta status is at stake this year:

Frye grew up in Lexington but Castle says "never in a million years" did she think she'd end up a Wildcat.

NEW YORK — In 1816, Kentucky-born portraitist William Edward West created a print depicting the battlefield death of British Maj. Gen. Edward Michael Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans. At the time, the wounds of the 1815 conflict, the last of the War of 1812, were still fresh, and…

There are a number of bills still in limbo as lawmakers break away from Frankfort during the governor’s veto period. One of those is House Bill 338, which allows Kentuckians 70 and older to be exempt from jury duty.

Terry Brooks, the executive director of Kentucky Youth Advocates, said the General Assembly has passed bills to improve the juvenile justice system.

The Kentucky native recently sat down with the team to talk about his changing role in Boston, what it took to get there, and what he hopes for the future.