After years of federal stimulus and surpluses, the Kentucky General Assembly will have to pass a state budget in a tighter fiscal environment in the 2026 session.

Here's what environmental advocates say they're hoping for, and what they're watching out for, during the Kentucky Legislature's upcoming session.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that would have forced Louisville Metro into a formal police reform agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.

A DEA agent used a Louisville Metro police officer's login credentials to search the city's license plate reader database using immigration-related terms.

The U.S. Dept. of Education was supposed to monitor JCPS until 2026 for overdisciplining Black students. Once Trump took office, they stopped answering the district's emails.

For 1,600 workers at BlueOval SK, their days on the job are numbered. Ford says the Glendale EV battery plant will be shuttered by mid-February.

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Young, infected Lasius neglectus ants will send out an altruistic "kill me" signal to worker ants, a new study finds, as part of a strategy to keep deadly pathogens from spreading through the colony.

The swift policy and political repercussions the video helped propel illustrate the symbiotic relationship between online content creators and the Trump administration's policy goals.

Misinformation spread quickly after the wildfires in Los Angeles last year. Some of these false narratives on social media impacted California policy.

While serendipity has often been associated with luck or happy accidents, its origin suggests that it goes beyond just happenstance.

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have been in limbo since the Trump administration removed their temporary protected status late last year. That uncertainty has intensified as U.S. immigration officials again push for those migrants to return to Venezuela.