Apple announced Wednesday it would spend $2.5 billion to fund the expansion of glass manufacturing for iPhones with Corning, a Harrodsburg-based company. Apple said the glass for all iPhones and Apple Watches would be made at the Corning facility. Apple CEO Tim Cook joined President Donald Trump in sharing the news Wednesday at the White […]

Sallie Bingham, whose family owned the Louisville Courier Journal for nearly seven decades before its 1986 sale made national headlines, has died in New Mexico. She was 88. Bingham, who grew up in Louisville amid the wealth and influence of one of the nation’s most prominent newspaper families, had lived in Sante Fe, New Mexico, […]

A lack of competition for state road paving contracts in Kentucky has driven up costs by millions of dollars through the first six months of 2025, according to an analysis by a free market think tank.   The Kentucky Forum for Rights, Economics and Education estimates that single-bid contracts awarded by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet have […]

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has joined other Democratic governors and attorneys general in an ongoing lawsuit seeking to unfreeze billions in federal funds allocated to building a nationwide network of chargers for electric vehicles. The Trump administration targeted $5 billion for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program on Inauguration Day this year and froze […]

LEXINGTON — Kentucky Supreme Court justices once again heard arguments in a case that could upend laws around “special legislation” governing specific cities and entities within the state.  The lawsuit, initially filed by the board of Jefferson County Public Schools, takes aim at a 2022 law that at present applies only to JCPS, the state’s […]

FANCY FARM — With control of the U.S. House up for grabs next year, U.S. Rep. Andy Barr is urging Kentucky Republicans to put him at the top of the state ticket, saying it would help President Donald Trump’s party keep the House seat Barr is vacating. Not surprisingly one of his Republican rivals for […]

As more hospitals have gobbled up private physician practices, costs for childbirth and other services have gone up, according to a new study. Since the early aughts, the share of physicians in the United States working for hospitals has nearly doubled, according to the study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit […]

The hardworking men and women at the Ford Blue Oval SK plant in Hardin County will vote on forming a union later this month. Their campaign to join the United Auto Workers is about winning safe working conditions, a voice on the job and affordable health care. But the vote is also a huge opportunity […]

Elected officials in Kentucky hailed the signing of a lease Tuesday that will restart uranium enrichment in Paducah, saying it would be West Kentucky’s biggest ever economic development project once completed. General Matter, led by Scott Nolan, a partner at the venture capital Founders Fund, plans to create high-assay low-enriched uranium, or HALEU, that smaller, […]

Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison has appealed the nearly three-year sentence he received for his role in the 2020 police raid that killed Breonna Taylor, an unarmed Black woman.  The notice of appeal, filed Tuesday, comes after U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings last month sentenced Hankison to 33 months in prison for […]

FRANKFORT — Kentuckians and local elected officials told Kentucky’s utility regulator a proposal to build several billion dollars of natural gas-fired power generation to meet prospective demand from data centers could burden ratepayers with costs and harm public health and the climate. The Kentucky Public Service Commission heard a range of concerns Monday inside its […]

FANCY FARM, Ky. — Most spectators had their eyes on candidates in Kentucky’s upcoming GOP U.S. Senate primary during events surrounding the Fancy Farm Picnic this weekend. However, a Republican and Democrat encouraged speculation about themselves as candidates in the state’s 2027 governor’s race.  While addressing party faithful — Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman at a Democratic […]

When children are unnecessarily removed from their homes, experts say the separation puts them at risk of chronic mental and physical ailments.  With that in mind, four Kentucky libraries are launching programs to keep families together, well resourced and educated, aided with $200,000 in grant money from the national nonprofit Youth Villages.  Libraries in Jackson, […]

While more than a dozen states have shrunk their pension debt obligations in recent years, a majority continue to see growth in the gap between the amount of money retirees have been promised and the amount of cash states have set aside. In a new analysis released this week, The Pew Charitable Trusts concluded that […]

FANCY FARM, Ky. — The top three Republican candidates hoping to represent Kentucky in the U.S. Senate — former Attorney General Daniel Cameron, U.S. Rep. Andy Barr and Lexington businessman Nate Morris — have been taking snipes at each other on the campaign trail this summer as they barrel toward the May 2026 primary, but […]

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear’s super PAC In This Together reported raising $618,200 during the first half of this year to the Federal Election Commission late Thursday. The super PAC was founded soon after the governor’s reelection in 2023 and funds his ongoing political activity and aspirations as he explores a possible run for […]

Kentucky’s largest utility is proposing to delay the retirement of a coal-fired power plant unit and move forward with building billions of dollars of gas-fired power generation as part of a proposed settlement agreement before the state utility regulator. The proposed settlement offered by Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities (LG&E and KU) this […]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied some assistance for Kentucky counties affected by severe storms and tornadoes earlier this year, but the Beshear administration plans to appeal the decisions.  The federal agency denied individual assistance for Christian and Todd counties and public assistance for Leslie County. FEMA also denied requests for the Hazard Mitigation […]

Lawyers for the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services and Gov. Andy Beshear on Wednesday questioned Auditor Allison Ball’s right to sue over an unfunded law that would have helped kinship care families.  During a Wednesday morning court hearing, held over Zoom, Beshear attorney Taylor Payne said the auditor has “zero standing” to push […]

Embattled Democratic state Rep. Daniel Grossberg wants to take his case against the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission to federal court.  Attorneys for Grossberg of Louisville filed a motion to dismiss his case in Franklin County Circuit Court earlier this month. The commission found “probable cause” that Grossberg, who has been accused of inappropriate behavior toward […]