FRANKFORT (AP) — Looking to build on Kentucky's economic momentum, Gov. Andy Beshear on Tuesday proposed pumping money into developing new industrial development sites and building an Appalachian research center to promote the state's agritech sector.

FRANKFORT (AP) — A bill aimed at allowing Kentucky students to receive excused absences from school for mental health reasons won approval from the House Education Committee on Tuesday.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The rising value of used vehicles during the pandemic may lead to a hefty increase in property taxes on them, Kentucky officials said.

FRANKFORT (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday proposed a massive budget increase for Kentucky education, releasing a plan that calls for the state to fully fund pre-kindergarten programs for every 4-year-old.

FRANKFORT (AP) — Unemployment rates fell in all 120 Kentucky counties between November 2020 and November 2021, the state reported.

FRANKFORT (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear has signed legislation pushing back this year's filing deadline for political candidates in Kentucky — a necessary step as lawmakers rush to finish redistricting.

FRANKFORT (AP) — Bills redrawing Kentucky's legislative maps won key votes Thursday to stay on course toward final passage, as lawmakers openly pondered the reality of forging ties with new constituents or in a few cases running against colleagues due to shifting districts.

FRANKFORT (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers quickly advanced legislation Wednesday that would push back this year's filing deadline for candidates seeking political office.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's top Republican lawmakers want to extend an oddly shaped congressional district to add Democratic-leaning Frankfort to the solidly red 1st District in an apparent effort to shore up another district that for decades has swung between both parties.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear revealed plans Wednesday night to deliver an assistance package for Kentucky communities devastated by recent tornadoes, vowing to “rebuild every structure and every life” in a speech that stressed the state's resilience to recover from disaster.

FRANKFORT (AP) — Kentucky reported almost 30,000 new COVID-19 cases last week, nearly twice the previous week's total as the omicron variant spurs a record test positivity rate, Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — As Kentucky lawmakers prepare for a busy session dominated by the need for a new state budget, they find themselves in a unique yet enviable situation — large pots of unspent money are overflowing.

FRANKFORT (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear set a blistering fundraising pace since launching his 2023 reelection bid, raising $1.3 million in the final three months of last year, his campaign said Monday.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Four sets of Kentucky House incumbents — split equally among Republican and Democratic lawmakers — would be placed into the same districts under a redistricting plan unveiled by House GOP leaders Thursday.

CARLYLE, Ill. (AP) — Police have arrested a Kentucky man in connection with the fatal shooting of an eastern Illinois deputy early Wednesday and a carjacking in neighboring Missouri a couple of hours later.

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Officials in a western Kentucky community devastated by tornadoes said they are working together to create a committee that will focus on long-term recovery.

A Bowling Green man has been indicted on multiple terrorism-related charges for allegedly working with ISIS, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Kentucky announced Monday.

FRANKFORT (AP) — Kentucky’s death toll from devastating tornadoes earlier this month rose by one as Gov. Andy Beshear announced Monday that an infant died last week. The state's revised death toll from the storms is now 77.

WINCHESTER (AP) — Former Winchester Sun publisher Betty Berryman, the first female president of the Kentucky Press Association, died Saturday morning, the newspaper reported.

DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday pledged to do “whatever it takes, as long as it takes” to help Kentucky and other states after a series of deadly tornadoes that he said left a trail of unimaginable devastation. “You will recover and rebuild,” he said.

NEW YORK (AP) — bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics were intertwined made her among the most influential thinkers of her time, has died. She was 69.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that he will travel to Kentucky on Wednesday to view damage from last week's devastating tornadoes that killed at least 64 people and displaced thousands more.

MAYFIELD (AP) — Judy Burton’s hands shivered as she gazed up at what had been her third-floor apartment. She could see her clothes still hanging in the closet, through the building's shredded walls. Across the street, her church was boarded up. A few blocks away, the spire was ripped away fr…

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Jarred Holmes was supposed to have been working inside a candle factory when it was ripped apart by a monstrous tornado that killed an untold number of employees and trapped many others under mounds of debris.

Disaster-aid and humanitarian groups are mobilizing to help tornado victims and setting up dedicated fund for donations to support their efforts.

MAYFIELD (AP) — At least 70 people were feared dead in Kentucky after tornadoes and severe weather tore through multiple states and caused catastrophic damage.

MAYFIELD (AP) — Tornadoes and severe weather caused catastrophic damage across multiple states late Friday, killing at least seven people overnight as a storm system tore through a candle factory in Kentucky, an Amazon facility in Illinois and a nursing home in Arkansas. The Kentucky governo…

FRANKFORT (AP) — Kentucky's governor declared the state's chronic nursing shortage to be an emergency Thursday, taking executive actions amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to boost enrollment in nurse-training programs.

FRANKFORT (AP) — A Kentucky ethics commission on Thursday charged Alison Lundergan Grimes with improperly using her office for personal and political purposes when she served as secretary of state, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.

ASHLAND — Holly Forbes, the vocalist from Catlettsburg who’s competing on NBC’s “The Voice,” ranked in the top 13 during Tuesday night’s show.

LOUISVILLE — A Louisville woman who was entering a drug treatment program is suing two Metro Corrections officers she says strip-searched her and then "paraded" her naked in front of officers, employees, visitors and other detainees.

Gov. Andy Beshear's proposed budget request for the Kentucky State Police next year will include $12.2 million for the agency's troopers to be equipped with body cameras for the first time.

HAZARD (AP) — A Kentucky high school principal and two other employees received written reprimands for a homecoming event that included male students giving lap dances to staff and girls dressing like Hooters waitresses, according to a published report.

A hand gesture that signals a need for help, which has circulated on TikTok, helped rescue a missing North Carolina female in Laurel County on Thursday.

FRANKFORT (AP) — Kentucky's attorney general pushed back Thursday against President Joe Biden's coronavirus vaccination mandate for private employers, filing a lawsuit claiming the requirement amounts to government overreach.

CORBIN — A Corbin Independent School District maintenance worker is suing the district and three employees after the man claims the three rigged a toilet with an improvised explosive device fueled by several firecrackers and it injured his genitalia.

GEORGETOWN (AP) — The president of Kentucky's Georgetown College has been fired after reports emerged accusing him of sexual assault and sexual misconduct against employees, the small Christian liberal arts school announced Tuesday.

After weeks of being one of the top 10 states for its coronavirus infection rate, Kentucky took a plunge to No. 16 in The New York Times rankings Tuesday, as the state's case numbers and positive-test rate kept falling. 

The University of Kentucky suspended “all activities for the Farmhouse Fraternity” while two investigations are conducted into the death of one of its new members, President Eli Capilouto said Tuesday night in a message to campus.

Declaring an impasse in contract talks with striking union workers, global spirits producer Heaven Hill said Monday it will start hiring permanent replacement workers for bottling and warehouse operations in Kentucky.

LEXINGTON (AP) — A former University of Kentucky student has been acquitted of a reckless homicide charge in a DUI crash that killed a 4-year-old child after a football game.

FRANKFORT (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has reached out to top lawmakers in seeking the legislature's collaboration on his proposal to use federal pandemic aid to reward frontline workers with bonuses.

More adolescents who test positive for COVID-19 should consider monoclonal antibody treatment, according to a pediatric doctor at UK HealthCare.

FRANKFORT (AP) — Kentucky's local governments cannot prevent their employees from carrying weapons “at all times and places” while on duty, according to a state attorney general's opinion released Monday.

FRANKFORT (AP) — Kentucky officials are urging drivers to be on alert for deer and other wildlife this fall.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A judge ruled Friday that Kentucky’s constitution prohibits a part of a new state law enabling donors to get tax credits for supporting private school tuition.