The Appalachian Regional Commission awarded more than $7.4 million to "Backroads of Appalachia." The eastern Kentucky nonprofit promotes scenic drives on existing roads.

For transgender youth in Kentucky, a new Supreme Court ruling ensures they'll remain unable to get gender-affirming hormone therapy in their home state.

Rare blue-ghost fireflies are generally associated with the southern Appalachian region, but researchers say their range is likely bigger than that — expanding all the way to north central Kentucky.

The country’s largest public power provider is building a large-scale solar field on a closed coal ash site at its Shawnee Fossil Plant site in McCracken County. Tennessee Valley Authority officials say it’s the world’s first.

Transgender kids in nearly half of all U.S. states will not be able to access gender-affirming care after the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on the care for minors. The court ruled 6-3 along conservative/liberal lines in the landmark decision.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Kentucky over a regulation that gives “an undocumented alien” in-state tuition if they graduated from a Kentucky high school.

Chilean families are having only one child on average. U.S. birthrates are also dropping but it's unclear whether the U.S. will follow into the growing group of "very low" birthrate countries.

Without a deal in hand, Republicans say they may try to change Senate rules when they return in September to speed up the pace of confirmations.

Dozens of Palestinians were killed, many while waiting for food aid, amid a deepening starvation crisis and despite Israeli assurances of a humanitarian pause in some areas of the territory.

Authorities were scouring a mountainous area of western Montana for a military veteran who they say opened fire at a bar in the small town of Anaconda, killing four people.

A popular women's dating advice app suffered a major data breach, revealing users' drivers' licenses, messages and other sensitive information. The hack put a spotlight on the flaws in "whisper networks."

A Miami jury decided Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly 2019 crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology. The automaker said it will appeal.