A rural town in western Kentucky will be home to the state's first medical cannabis dispensary. The Post Dispensary in Beaver Dam has received approval to open the state's first dispensary since medical marijuana became legal on Jan. 1.

Apple says it will partner with a Kentucky manufacturer to produce all of the glass on its iPhones and other products in the Bluegrass State.

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a Tennessee man charged with killing the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home’s yard.

The Trump administration has cut staff by more than 24% at the National Park Service since January. Republicans in Congress are now proposing another round of cuts as part of a budget bill.

A free market think tank found Kentucky awarded $150 million of single-bid asphalt contracts in the first six months of this year, following $270 million given in 2024.

The 2025 Eighth of August festivities in Paducah will run through Sunday, several of them hosted by the W.C. Young Community Center. Erika Hudson, president of the center’s board of d, said that there’s going to be new events, as well as classic traditions like the annual parade.

In a new book, Mallary Tenore Tarpley says she's learned to reject perfectionism when it comes to recovery and accept her slip-ups as part of a messy "middle place" between sickness and health.

NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters notifying them that their asylum cases have been dismissed because they have not yet received a screening interview.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video profiling Christian Nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson, who opposes same-sex marriage.

Movies can tell us a lot about what scares us. And ever since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the fear of nuclear war has reverberated across decades of film.

Asher Watkins had been tracking a cape buffalo for the kill when the animal instead turned its attack on the hunter.

NPR's Adrian Ma plays the puzzle with YPR listener Bill Hoffman of Helena, Montana, and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.