University of Kentucky researchers are working on a new way of eliminating an invasive insect species that’s been a blight to some of the commonwealth’s biggest crops.

Michael Pape, a Murray State graduate who served for over two decades as field director for former Kentucky Congressman Ed Whitfield and currently serves as chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rural utility service, is the featured speaker at this year’s Harry Lee Waterfield Distinguished Lecture in Public Affairs taking place Tuesday evening.

After three years, a high-profile lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s near-total abortion ban has been canceled as the state's attorney general exercises a new appeals process.

For corn farmers across Kentucky, April means it’s time to till fields and plant acre after acre of the row crop. This year, though, the growing season has come with an undercurrent of stress, with small agricultural producers across the U.S. under financial strain stemming from the country’s war with Iran.

Hundreds of western Kentuckians heard from three Democratic candidates running for Kentucky’s open U.S. Senate seat at a forum hosted Monday by the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce.

Severe weather is likely to impact western Kentucky, western Tennessee and southern Illinois later on Monday and into Tuesday.

Today, most people know the word as a synonym for "destroy." But fewer realize its origins — or that it's come to mean something strikingly different than it once did.

Starting May 1, many people covered by Medicaid in Nebraska have to prove they are working. It's a requirement most states will have to implement under President Trump's budget law, beginning in January.

The protest organizers are calling for a boycott of work, school and shopping to protest Trump administration policies and what activists describe as a billionaire takeover of government.

More Americans are turning to the train as gas prices reach their highest point since the war in Iran began. Brightline, the privately-run railroad in Florida, had its best month ever in March.

President Trump announced a third nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a regular Fox News contributor, after pulling his previous nomination for Dr. Casey Means.

A 45-year-old man was charged with attempted murder in the stabbings of two Jewish men in London, the latest in a string of attacks that have sparked fear and anger in Britain's Jewish community.