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As lawmakers prepare Kentucky’s biennial budget for the 2026 legislative session, the state budget director says the Commonwealth will need to set aside over $115 million more than in previous years to keep giving its residents in need food stamps and – because of the federal reconciliation bill passed earlier this summer – potentially hundreds of millions of dollars on top of that.

Continuing their winning streak, Joe and Kelly Craft partnered with Central Bank to buy the Kentucky Farm Bureau’s championship ham for a $10 million donation.

Lately there’s been a lot of splashy economic news about Kentucky with promises of new manufacturing jobs at major companies and politicians are lining up to take credit for a promise of economic prosperity.

A rural town in Ohio County will be home to Kentucky's first medical cannabis dispensary. While more than 11,000 patients are certified to purchase the product, supply chain issues make it uncertain when medical marijuana will land on dispensary shelves.

Murray State University announced Tuesday that one of the university’s biggest benefactors has died.

When the 502 area code runs out of numbers, Kentuckians in the north-central region will be assigned a 761 area code.

Baldwin: A Love Story, a book by Nicholas Boggs, has a singular focus on the redemptive power of devotion.

About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have reached safety, state media said late Tuesday.

Israelis are paying heavy costs for the longest war in their history: a mental health crisis, trauma, unprecedented division during wartime, animosity abroad and apathy for Palestinian suffering.

A federal union argues that Trump administration language posted on federal agency websites and some emails blaming a shutdown on the "Radical Left Democrats" violates a 1939 federal law.

It's been two years since Hamas-led militants attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. In response, Israeli leaders promised a punishing offensive. Here are some numbers showing the war's toll.

A new draft White House memo suggests a 2019 law signed by President Trump that guarantees that federal employees get paid after a shutdown ends would not apply to furloughed workers.